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Example (one of those I picked randomly): https://www.ebay.de/itm/Gaming-PC-AMD-Ryzen-5-2400G-4-8x-3-9-Ghz-SSD-Windows-10-Computer-Komplett-Gamer/292598737121
Note: Can't look actualy in the discussion rules if Ebay links are allowed:
Edit: Nearly all of those (commercially sold) PCs are sold as "brand new", even on ebay.com. So who talks wrong things here?
Do note that's "ebay.de" the german site, not "ebay.com" the USA site. Besides all of that, it's just with anything on the internet. If you search long enough you'll find some (one) example somewhere in some one post on the site trying to prove your point because you always have to have the last say in everything and you always have to be right because that's you and how you work, Metallos. You're infallible and you can't ever possibly be wrong about anything on any subject.
The bottom line is they sell it at used prices in-game and that's the way it is. So you can cry and complain about it all day but they still sell it at used prices in game. At least as of the today and the time of writing this.
And before inputing others you should take away the mirror in front of you.
Yet PCBS still sells prebuilt computers at used prices in-game, currently. Instead of complaining here.. you should go make a formal request in the feature request forums to have them change and sell it for new prices. Here's a link to the feature request forums for you: https://steamcommunity.com/app/621060/discussions/2/
What a nonsense.... I buy computers which always consist of individual parts I selected. And gues what? I get a fully built computer in one case, the empty retail packages plus additional stuff from the parts which were not needed in another, for the case I want to resell any at some point, and get a full warranty "as one" considering the functionality as a new computer. On the bill I have "a custum build" with a total price which is equal to the sum of the parts plus a service fare for putting it together. If ANY part fails, I can send the whole computer back to the dealer if I like. Mostly in such cases I would of course consider a replacement of the particular item, but I could refund it completely.
I don't know where you live, but I don't think your country has such poor consumer rights.
It doesn't matter if you're using 'brand new components' or not, the fact that you are not a OEM but are a 3rd party reseller making systems from 'off the shelf' components that you have then thrown together does change the perceived value of the components.
The game reflects that accurately, and is working at intended.
Perhaps in the future there could be additional tools added to the game to actually sign contracts with certain hardware manufacturers to be recognised OEMs and as such able to buy hardware from them at lower OEM prices and sell PCs using their hardware exclusively (or as exclusively as possible) for closer to retail value.
But for now, you are not a OEM. You are not buying your components from the manufacturer at reduced OEM prices for resale. You're buying consumer marketed hardware from a independent retailer and selling then selling '2nd hand' builds on the games equivilent of Ebay.
When Dell or HP, or even iBuypower, Origin, Cyberpower buy their parts from the manufacturer (Intel, Nvidia, AMD, Corsair, Cooler Master etc. etc.), it's still prebuilt. Used parts would be if they were used previously by another user. Let me give you an example. I upgraded my own personal rig a year or so ago. I swapped out a 1050ti with a 1070ti. If I sold the 1050ti that would be me selling a used part (since I have been gaming on it for the past year or more before my upgrade). Even the game gets this right. When you buy parts from the "shop" app and not PC bay, the game considers those parts as new and unused. When a reoccurring customer comes back later in the campaign mode (such as the author, eSports kid, and the guy who sounds like a Nigerian prince scammer), send the PCs you built for them back to you for more repairs and service, then they count as used parts.
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Real life companies such as Dell, HP, and origin have too initially buy parts, ye they sell prebuilts. By your logic, the above companies are selling used PCs. See the full ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ essay above for more in-depth examples.
-The moment you buy a part you get a receipt
-Each part has a warranty for a certain time from time of purchase
-You can create a "new" PC but if it doesn't sell for a year you are burning through that warranty
How this works IRL is a person at home can crack out parts and make a PC, if a part burns up too soon he can get a replacement (though some companies make this difficult). If you try selling a PC it is essentially "used" from the get-go. If you were to try selling computers as your own manufacturer of PC's you would have to create your own warranty. This is why you don't see mom and pop shops flipping computers as a business, it's always larger companies with enough infrastructure to absorb the loss from parts that blow out too quickly.
Let's use Falcon Northwest as an example. They build custom PC's. They have their own support department and they have a 3 year parts and labor warranty on stuff they build as well as a 30-day money back guarantee. Technically they are selling computers made out of parts they opened from the box as a consumer. If they get a shipment of say GPU's and half are bad they are the consumer who must contact let's say EVGA (as an example) and go through the warranty process on each DOA unit they receive as THEY are the customer. The person who purchases a computer from FNW gets a warranty from FNW themselves.
If you purchase computer parts you are a consumer. The moment you tear off the shrink-wrap the part is used. If you want to sell a computer made from parts you bought new you will have to come up with a warranty and all that jazz and be able to absorb the cost of shipping back and forth, the helpline worker/s, cost of OS licenses for each unit made, etc. If FNW makes a computer and the part dies within a few days, they ship the PC back, they rip the part out, they get their receipt for the part from when FNW ordered it and they get that send that in but in the meantime they have to get another identical part out of stock and replace it to ship back to their customer.
To be clear there are smaller custom computer shops out there. The main hurdle to running a smaller shop is how to handle warranties and customer support. Remember there are always "those" customers that will call every time they get duped in a scam from clicking the ads on various websites and expect you to fix it. It can almost be too much of a hassle for a smaller shop considering profit margins and how most people can just buy a
crappy budget HP/Dell/etc. and they will argue why you are charging an extra $500 without caring about you using a better CPU, GPU and more RAM in your computer.
It's a lot to deal with and you have to be sort of a salesman to explain or show the difference quality parts provide over the budget PC's or to help a customer decide if the budget web-browser PC is all they really need. Helping people even if you don't profit instead of gouging them non-stop is always the way to go, it's how I made some consistent money fixing PC's for a few years.
Now I do think it would be cool if you could become a small custom computer shop in PCBS. That would be really cool, and a certain percentage of your builds have to come back for warranty work so you have to have some money sitting around to cover computers that die too early. Maybe make an equation to determine if some builds would wear out too early due to bad design, such as too much heat from not enough cooling or a barely adequate PSU that might get a usage spike just barely above it's maximum rating.
And IRL computers are very much off topic here.. we're discussing the PCBS game because this is the PCBS forums. There are no pre-builts in the PCBS game, and there never will be.