[beagle3]

That's true in the US, but when I looked to buy in the past in London, and a different time in Tel-Aviv (and did a quick look for comparison in other places), it seemed like everything local is being sold at ~50-75% original price, which -- factoring efficiency, CPU advances, and wear -- is more expensive than buying new.

It's probably a cultural thing, but it seems that most enterprises prefer to offload at these cheap prices to resellers who like to charge high prices (except, somehow, in the US). Also - both in London and in Tel-Aviv - I had never known any business who bought second hand servers or workstation. I'm sure these businesses exist - but every IT person I've ever talked to only buys new.

The US 2nd hand equipment economy makes sense to me, but no other place in the world does.

[justinclift]

When I was living in London, there was heaps of good 2nd hand stuff available on Ebay at really cheap prices. eg Supermicro, Mellanox

Now that I'm in Australia... the availability of things is much less. Ugh. :(