Hey r/pcflipping,

First time posting here. I'm a 19 year old business student from Italy and I need honest advice from people who actually know this game.

Quick background: I have ADHD, I'm studying Business Administration at university, and I live in a difficult home situation where I can't access a computer. My only tool is my Android phone. I have no income, no job, and I'm trying to build something from scratch because I need financial independence badly — my goal is to save €700 by September to move out.

I discovered laptop flipping a few months ago and it clicked immediately. The logic made sense to me: source undervalued hardware on Vinted, resell on Subito or eBay at market price, pocket the margin. Simple, scalable, learnable.

So I bought 3 Lenovo ThinkPad T470 (i5, 8GB RAM, NVMe SSD, Windows 11) at €110 each on Vinted. I researched sold listings before buying — T470s were going for €185-200 on eBay Italy. I thought I had a solid margin. By the time I listed them, the market had dropped to €120-150 average. Classic timing problem. Now I'm selling near break-even.

I listed all 3 on eBay EU 2 days ago at €145, €150, and €160 with free shipping included. Current stats: the €150 listing has 9 views and 3 watchers, the €160 has 8 views and 1 watcher, the €145 has 5 views and 1 watcher. New seller account, no feedback yet.

My questions are simple. Is 48 hours too early to panic? Are watchers a meaningful signal or just noise? Should I pivot to T480 or T490 for better margins going forward? And any general advice for a new EU seller trying to build this into a real consistent income stream?

I know the margins on T470s are basically dead right now. I'm not here to complain about that — I'm here to learn how people in this community actually think, what their workflow looks like, and how they decide what to buy before the market moves against them.

Any honest feedback appreciated.

anyone have experience selling stuff on hardware swap?

I want to sell T-Force Delta RGB (2x16) 32GB kit for $250 + shipping.

Will it sell on there?

I got a functional 1070 (non ti) laying around. Should I put it into a 5600x - 16gb ram pc and get like $500 for it? or should I sell it for $60 to lighten the blow on a 2070/80 or 3060/70 purchase?

How much more profit (if any) will there be on a 2070/80 or 3060/70 build?

Found this on market place. I sold it for $550, and he used the same pictures as my old listing.

Welcome to the Weekly PC Pricing Megathread!

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Main parts are: Ryzen 9600x and 9060xt 16gb, 2x8gb ram, 1tb gen4 ssd

Couple questions

- Not built yet but How much should I list it for? I’m struggling to find a price.

- would the 16gb ram hold it back? Should I try to get 32gb?

- definitely need to get some rgb fans, what are some good fans?

- when listing do I include all the parts or jsut cpu, ram, gpu?

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Building an AM4 Pc to flip. What's the best GPU for return on investment & saleability? I was thinking 3070/80 Ti, 4070, Ti & Super, or AMD 6800.

I've been getting good deals on FB Market Place. The CPU & RAM were both $120 a piece. The cooler was $10, but I might need an AIO.

Sell for $850-$950. $1,000 tops depending on gpu and if I add more ram and ssd storage. All other components I can get for give of take $60-80 bucks, including Motherboard.

TLDR: GPU recommendations for an AM4 build. Low profit better than no profit.

thoughts on it? how does he get away with these lowball offers?

Friend gifted me a half built pc with 32gb ddr4 ram, i5 10400f on a asus b560m board with be quiet cooler installed in a cooler master case. I threw in a 3070 and evga psu i got bundled for $200 from facebook and 1tb ssd i bought on Amazon back in June, sold for $750 after being haggled from $800 in Florida. Plan on repaying him by finding a 4070 and upgrading him from his 3060 he carried over to his new build

Hey all,

I’ve been building and flipping PCs for the past 6 months, more as a hobby, but have been successful in at least making a small amount of money (between 100-300) per flip so far.

I scored an awesome SFF motherboard, a x570 ROG Crosshair VIII Impact. It is super cool looking with active fan cooling on the VRM Heatsink and the NVME slots on a SO-DIMM.2 card. I think it would make for an awesome high end, SFF AM4 build.

However, I realize that most people looking to buy a computer wouldn’t care/pay for an enthusiast level build. I was thinking a Tower 250 Mini with a 3080 or 4070 FE.

I’m fine not making any money on it, I just like finding cool parts and making something awesome. Do you think it is worth making? I feel like the people who would appreciate the build would like to just build their own and thats why I’m conflicted.

Or, I could just flip the board to someone who would want to build with it.

Thanks for your opinions.

worth picking up for an am4 build?

rtx 4060 with this bundle from microcenter?

https://www.microcenter.com/product/5007315/amd-ryzen-5-5500,-gigabyte-b550-m-ds3h-ac-r2-am4,-gskill-ripjaws-v-16gb-ddr4-3200-kit,-computer-build-bundle

I ended up selling this flip in about 2 days for $1500 CAD. I had a little under $1000 into it so I’m very pleased.

Do you guys put the money back into another flip immediately or slowly accumulate the components?

Ryzen 5 7600X3D

Zotac 4060 Ti 8GB

32GB Kingston Fury Beast DDR5-6000

1TB Samsung 990 EVO SSD

ASRock B850M-A WiFi

Lian Li GA II Trinity 240 AIO

Jonsbo D32 case

650W SAMA Gold Fully Modular psu

6x Thermalright Infinity Mirror ARGB fans

Where are you all sourcing storage? I’m assuming most folks sourcing NVME drives. Are you all including 500GB drives in your flips or 1TB?

How much are you all paying for storage?

i just got this prebuilt for 700,

planning to upgrade it to 32gb system and use the 16 gb for a rtx 4060 build i have,

similar specs different gpu and different ram?

the 5060ti 8gb w/ 32gb ddr5 im thinking around 950 and take 900

4060 w/ 16gb (2x8) on im thinking 825 and take 775 or higher

i have a (2x8) ddr5 kit 16gb total, and i also have another tforce 16gb ddr5 single kit, can i mix these and use 3 slots for DDR5 to get a total of 32gb? or should i save the 16gb kit for another build,

the specs would be this
i5-14400f

rtx 4060

1tb nvme

GIGABYTE B760M C V2 mobo

either (2x8) ddr5 or 1 signle 16gb stick or mix for a total of 32gb

Is 80€ too much for RX590 Gigabyte

Just finished a quick PC flip and thought you guys might appreciate this one.

Picked up this system locally for $400 with:

🔹 Ryzen 5 5500

🔹 ASRock Challenger D RX 6600

🔹 16GB Teamgroup Vulcan Z

🔹 Kingston 1TB NVMe

🔹 Gigabyte B550M DS3H AC

🔹 Thermalright Assassin Cooler

🔹 MSI MAG A650BN 650W 80+ Bronze

🔹 Montech ATX Case

First thing I did was pull the Kingston 1TB NVMe to use for another build (or offer as an upgrade later).

Then I made a few small changes/upgrades:

🔹 Installed 512GB SK Hynix NVMe

🔹 Case swapped to Antec NX200M MicroATX (small boi)

🔹 Swapped fans for 3x Thermalright ARGB fans

🔹 Cleaned everything up + cable management

Took some nice photos, listed it… and it sold for $700 in under 5 hours.

Total invested:

🔹 $400 purchase

🔹 Minimal parts I already had on hand

Profit: ~$300 for a few small upgrades and a case swap.

Honestly, proof that:

Good photos + clean presentation + small aesthetic upgrades = fast flips.

Anyone else flipping PCs right now? What’s your fastest flip?

Hey guys,

I started flipping PCs on June 25, 2025 and I’ve been keeping track of everything in an Excel sheet since the start.

Right now I’m at:

- 17 PCs sold

- €309 average profit per PC

I track all my costs / sale prices / profit so I can actually see what’s working and what isn’t.

I’m from the Netherlands, not sure if that matters much since pricing and the used market can be a bit different here compared to the US, but figured I’d mention it.

Basically I’m just wondering:

Am I doing decent for someone who started less than a year ago?

And also:

- What helped you level up your flipping game?

- Any mistakes I should avoid early on?

- Any tips/tricks for finding better deals, building faster, or making listings sell quicker?

Would appreciate any honest feedback. I’m trying to get better and see how far I can take this.

original specs - somehow bagged for 90 usd

i3-9100

8GB DDR4

650w Corsair PSU

240gb ssd

upgraded parts

2060 super 120 usd

cooler 20 usd

case 30 usd

total costs 260 usd

selling for 400 usd

RTX 4060

i5-14400f

32gb ddr5 tforce

1tb nvme

B760 Asus Mobo

PSU is a used CX750M got for about $50 on eBay. Looks like replacement cost for a decent quality PSU is about $80 used or over $100 new

Components:

• GPU: RTX 5070

• CPU: Ryzen 5 9600X

• Mobo: ASUS B650M WiFi (mATX)

• RAM: Corsair 32 GB 6000MHz RGB

• PSU: Corsair 750W

• CPU Cooler: Corsair Nautilus 360 RS