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Re: Is an investment possible? Budget box - Profitable?? said by VishuzNinja:From the business perspective, people do buy built PCs that are overcharged. The difference is, most of those over priced PCs come from established major name companies that offer brand confidence and warranty support. Hence, people are willing to pay.
A couple of searches both on the BBR For Sale forum and someplace like Ebay ought to disabuse you of the notion you are going to put out just shy of $1000 and make a 30-50% profit. Computers drop in value immediately after they ship, whether as parts or entire machines. A few cutting edge parts-of-the-moment may hold close to their original value for a short time when they are new to market, but all that does is help you to recoup some of your cost, and still won't leave room to profit.
If you want to try to make money building computers, the profit isn't in the resale value, it's in a builders fee. For that to work you need a market to offer your services.
Your old XP based machine might go for $200, possibly a little more to an inexperienced buyer. The market is flooded with those Socket A parts, so they carry little value these days.
If there is a machine you are wanting to put together for yourself, save up money or ask for recommendations within your budget and buy what you intend to use. A quick resale of a machine sourced from Newegg isn't going to net you more than $100 (if that), unless you play the huckster and get some fool to way over pay. And then be prepared to play tech support for said fool. 
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