What's your best find on the used market?

[Dr. Dro]

If I had to rank it overall... that's very likely to be my launch date, 25 year old SCPH-10000 PS2 in fully working condition. Doesn't have as much of a scratch in it. Reading discs just fine. Wasn't outlandish in price, though it wasn't a thrift shop find. Heh, I spend more on Genshin every month anyway.

Next is my IBM Model M. Wew. This one was a steal! I'll be its last owner, but despite the fact that it's older than me, I plan on keeping it for many more years. Same applies to my Sony MDR-V7, which has started to, well, break. Cans from the 80s, legendary quality, but the plastic would cede with years of daily use and I've been using it every day for the past 2 years or so. Will need to buy a sacrificial MDR-7506 to use for parts someday, blasphemous as that sounds.

Nvidia's Last Dual GPU - GTX 690 for $50 AUD with original retail box. Dude was selling for "Parts- Not Working" as one GPU wasn't working. Once received, booted it up and both GPU's were working

Pretty sure I picked that up roughly 5 years ago now. Not bad for a card the was $999 MSRP: https://www.techpowerup.com/review/nvidia-geforce-gtx-690/

Pretty cool to see the original Alan Wake in that GTX 690 review

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Nice, complete in box, too. Sadly, my GTX 690 croaked

 

[Outback Bronze]

Sadly, my GTX 690 croaked

Wow! You originally bought one, awesome!

I purchased 2x HD 7950's and ran them in xfire at the time. Ended up being better value for money.

 

[Vemby]

I am buying used or unopened regularly. I cannot resist. I just bought Samsung S25 Ultra 256GB, unopened, not registered = full 24 months warranty for 21000CZK (equivalent of 954USD). Note that with tax the regular price in my country is around 1400USD.

PC parts related, last year I was selling one guy a PC which I built with the purpose of flipping it. When I was connecting all cables in his house, he randomly asked me if I would be interested in another PC he bought before contacting me. Which according to him was not functioning. He asked me for a discount of 3000CZK (136USD) for my PC and he will give it to me. I quickly looked and saw ASRock B550M Pro4 and Arctic tower cooler, PSU cables and sata cable. I decided to agree and took the risk. Later that day I discovered that the CPU cooler was loose and wasn’t touching the CPU at all. I ended up with functional PC with following components:

AMD Ryzen 7 5800X + ARCTIC Freezer 34
AeroCool 550W 80Plus Gold
16GB RAM
ASRock B550M Pro4
512GB M.2 NVMe
1TB HDD

All for 136 USD… I felt bad for a guy. But at the end I was the one accepting the risk and he was the one offering me this deal. So, I decided not to contact him back.

 

[Chomiq]

Recently? Not really used but refurbished LF III 420 for €44 from Arctic, found it and let my buddy know so he snagged one instead of spending around €150+ on BeQuiet's SL3 420.

 

[jak_2456]

I bought my daily-driver Dell XPS 15 7590 on eBay in late 2023 for $425. It's a very nice laptop and it makes for a semi-sleeper gaming laptop with a GTX 1650 GPU. I'm sure it can be had for less now, but that was a decent price when I bought it then. I also found a Dell WD15 dock with 180 W charger for around $40.

I'd say the best find I ever had on eBay was a Lenovo ThinkStation P310 for about $85 shipped in 2023. It has a Xeon E3-1245v5, 16 GB of RAM, 256 GB SSD, and a 400 W PSU that's powerful enough to run a GTX 1070. I used it to build a really cheap gaming PC with a GTX 1070 for a friend that ended up being $165 total.

 

[Dr. Dro]

Wow! You originally bought one, awesome!

I purchased 2x HD 7950's and ran them in xfire at the time. Ended up being better value for money.

Oh no, this was more recent, was just before the pandemic. Back in 2013, I bought the EVGA Signature GTX Titan as a 20th birthday gift to myself, that thing came in an amazing box, with a hard mouse mat and a T-shirt, those were the days. I ended up killing that card by overclocking it too much with an Accelero Xtreme IV and the engineering sample BIOS that had no power limit. I was wildin back then... most of my knowledge came from trial and error , looking back at it, I fear myself

 

[KedsDead]

I got my current 6900 XT for $375. My kid wasnt happy with his 5600X3d, something about stutters during streaming with is friends, so I bought a $139 5700X from micro center and traded him. 5600X3D for $140, not bad.. Memory I had from my X99 build.. Motherboard was spare parts from my kids older machine, he didnt check to see if SAM worked on it, before buying a new one.

 

[FreedomEclipse]

Just picked up a Logi K400+ for £3. No dongle. Dont know if its working YET but my M575 comes with a unifying dongle that in theory should work with the K400. If not then they can be bought of amazon for a few quid.

::EDIT::

Yes. Yes it works. The form factor has its quirks but once I get used to it. Its fine. The unifying thing was a bit of faff to get around but apparently logitech discontinued the app and now its some sort of web portal which you can use to add devices to the unifying receiver.

 

[jak_2456]

Just picked up a Logi K400+ for £3. No dongle. Dont know if its working YET but my M575 comes with a unifying dongle that in theory should work with the K400. If not then they can be bought of amazon for a few quid.

::EDIT::

Yes. Yes it works. The form factor has its quirks but once I get used to it. Its fine. The unifying thing was a bit of faff to get around but apparently logitech discontinued the app and now its some sort of web portal which you can use to add devices to the unifying receiver.

I have one of those for my sim racing rig since it has a built-in touchpad. It doesn't feel amazing in general but it gets the job done.

 

[static_void]

For me it would probably be a Kioxia XG8 SSD that costed me just $160. IMO a great price for 4TB PCIe Gen4 TLC drive. It was a new drive in a simple OEM packaging with 0 power-on cycles. I was using it in my PC for ~3 month with no issues at all.
Also a few years ago bought a couple of used Seasonic Focus Gold PSUs. You can get some good condition 650 - 750W PSUs that are pulled from prebuilts and they cost like $40-50. Now you can get a used Seasonic GX (the successor of Focus model) for the same money.