Was just reading on Blog-Ed about how Joe has become a finalist in the Guardian competition to make as much money as you can on eBay. What he’s doing is buying broken laptops and doing them up and then selling them again. You can check out how it’s going on Laptop Scrapyard.
When I get round to it, I’ll back up this Vaio at work and if you can sort out whatever’s wrong with the power circuitry then you can have it.
I'm a web developer based in the East Midlands, UK and if I keep up the current rate, I might have developed 3 million sites by the time I retire
*waves at Andy* Long time no drink…
The main thing I do is strip the laptops down and sell the parts. Even the faulty bits make a quid or two.
If I can fix them, I “refurbish” them (foam cleaner, Windows reinstall, AVG & OpenOffice) and sell them whole.
The Guardian competition has another month or so to run – I’m keeping a blog of my progress at http://www.laptopscrapyard.net/blog
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Beats working for a living!