Jobs that request used parts.

[LuisCane]

It seems like 99% of jobs that aren't story jobs don't want you to use used parts. It would be nice to see some jobs that ask for used parts or at least don't discourage it. It's so easy to amass a huge stockpile of used parts, especially GPUs.
Sure, you can build machines out of used parts and sell them on PC Bay or sell the parts outright, but where are all the budget conscious gamers who wouldn't mind you saving them a few dollars with a used Graphics card?

[BonPadre]

引用自 gaspuch62：

but where are all the budget conscious gamers who wouldn't mind you saving them a few dollars with a used Graphics card?

Long gone are those days...
Actually those days were during early access, before devs reworked the billing system and how you earn your money.
Back in the days, indeed you could make much more use of used parts in builds and upgrade / fix jobs, but also at the time PCBay was not allowing you to sell full PC's on it. It was only a buy second hands parts.

Now while I agree with your comment, honnestly, how many time would you go on a PC shop (small like a neghborhood one or a bigger one) and hear a customer saying "oh I want to upgrade my GPU, but I would like to have used one please ?"

I mean peeps that buys second hand PC parts assemble them themselves and don't go in a shop to buy and have them installed. You still play as a small shop owner.

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Story jobs allow used parts. If a job required a used part it might be difficult to complete. You only get a few used parts per day from PC Bay and can sometimes pull them from customer machines, but you don't get a choice of which part you're getting. Requiring used parts without additional changes wouldn't be fun.

[BonPadre]

引用自 quaixor：

Story jobs allow used parts. If a job required a used part it might be difficult to complete.

Indeed you can.
But is there truely a reason ? In story jobs, you are also allowed to go over budget.

A used part dropped into a job is paied it's used value.
So let's say $130 for a GPU as used. You get paied $130 and that's it.

If you build a PC and OC to the max you can, and benchmark it, and sell it on PCBay, you may get $160 or more, from a part you either never bought (if upgrade from a customer) to a part you truely bought less than $130 if bought on a nice discount on PCBay (-70% per example)

So you anyway make more money out of used part sold on an OC PC on PCBay, than installing a used part on a job and getting paied it's 1/3 of brand new value just in order to fit budget.

Now if I'm after an achievement and want to get it without any money cheat, honnestly with current game mechanics, I would reject jobs that require me to make use of used parts to fit budget and I would keep selling all my used parts only as part of a nicely OC PC build sold on PCBay.

引用自 quaixor：

If a job required a used part it might be difficult to complete.

Indeed, true as well, but it would be probably more fun and challenging to know if you accept or not a job (if you are willing to play it that way, and not as I described I would personally do as per above comment to max out money)