Still possible to earn much money building PCs as a job?

[froggyboy604]

I'm not sure if it is still possible to make enough money by just building and selling desktop PCs sincemost people these days just buy Home and Student PC and laptops price at $299-499 from Dell, HP, Lenovo, and other big brands, or buy used/refurbished PCs for $99 and up on Craigslist, eBay, and local classified ads, or from relatives and friends.

 

[InRomoWeTrust]

Desktop sales are definitely down, but you can certainly do it with the right marketing. You'd be best off selling locally as opposed to with an online commerce site.

You just have to sell the value to the potential customer. It's easy selling if they are in the market for a desktop.

 

[AndroidOS]

I think this is good if you want an extra bit of pocket money, and as InRomoWeTrust said, you could possibly make quite a bit with the correct marketing. When making your own PC's, you save the money when building powerful gaming machines, and not so much when building low-powered every day machines.

 

[Fergal]

I like to buy local when I can. However, when buying PCs I've always bought Dell. I feel that I can trust them and I know what I'm getting. Personally I wouldn't have that confidence when buying a PC from a local person building PCs themselves. That's just my view, but there will be others who will feel the same way and it is a challenge that you will have to overcome.

Saying all that, if you love building PCs you should be able to find some way of making money out of it.

Had you considered doing PC repair and maintenance as a way to make money?

 

[InRomoWeTrust]

I like to buy local when I can. However, when buying PCs I've always bought Dell. I feel that I can trust them and I know what I'm getting. Personally I wouldn't have that confidence when buying a PC from a local person building PCs themselves. That's just my view, but there will be others who will feel the same way and it is a challenge that you will have to overcome.

Saying all that, if you love building PCs you should be able to find some way of making money out of it.

Had you considered doing PC repair and maintenance as a way to make money?

Understand the point on the comfort behind the big brand, but why why why pick Dell? lol

As a business, Dell wins on cost but never on quality. Pick the quality brand, not the cost brand. "I know what I'm getting". Plastic and cheap components? 😛

 

[froggyboy604]

Thanks for the tips.

I think being a PC refurbisher whic fixes up old pc and laptops, and making them work again, or work better than before by upgrading the RAM, and video card can also be easier to make money with since a lot of people are willing to sell their used PC at a lost or give away for free on Craigslist because they need to make room in their home for a new PC, and a refurbisher can sell old pcs for a small profit.

I read Linux works well even on older PC, and there is a smaller market for Linux base PC which sells for a few hundred less than Windows base PC, so refurbishers are less likely to compete with lowend affordable computer makers which sells PC at very low profit margins, but earn most of their money through quantity, and pre-installed affiliate software and links from Norton, Mcafee, eBay and AOL which they get paid to install on buyer's PC.