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by cornichon622 348 days ago
Built a gaming desktop for a friend almost 2 years ago; used GPU and CPU (maybe a few others things too), everything's going great. It helps that our local Cragslist offers efficient buyer protection.

Server-side, I also bought used Xeons for an old box and recertified 10TB Exos. No issues there neither.

The HDDs are a bit of a gamble, but for anything else I can only encourage you to buy used!
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throwaway2037 348 days ago 

    > It helps that our local Cragslist offers efficient buyer protection.
What does this mean?
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cornichon622 347 days ago
When you buy something on Le Bon Coin, if it's not conform to the description or outright broken, you can very easily get a refund from the platform itself up to 3 days after reception, even if the seller disappeared. I think it encourages people to buy used stuff by removing the main drawback which is "it may not work properly anymore".
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throwaway2037 347 days ago
Cool, I didn't know about this website. Ref: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leboncoin

This sounds like a very good upgrade to Craigslist and eBay!

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