Selling PC's locally - what do you guys think of the specs

Im going to be offering these PC's for sale locally, and was wondering what you guys thought of the specs.

No PC shops, or any other shops offer SFF PC's, so I thought that would be a good catch to get people interested.

Here are the specs for system's I would offer:

AMD Gaming PC
Shuttle SN95G5V2
AMD Athlon 64 3200+ Winchester Socket 939
1GB Crucial DDR PC3200
XFX GeForce 6600GT 128MB AGP
Samsung SpinPoint 160Gb SATA
NEC ND3520 Dual Layer DVDRW
Microsoft Windows Xp Professional SP2

For: £999.99

Intel Gaming PC
Shuttle XPC SB81P
Intel Pentium 4 Processor 530 (3Ghz 800Mhz 1Mb)
1GB Crucial DDR PC3200
XFX GeForce PCX6600 GT 128MB PCI-E
Samsung SpinPoint 160Gb SATA
NEC ND3520 Dual Layer DVDRW
Microsoft Windows Xp Professional SP2

For: £999.99

Home/Office PC
Shuttle SK83G
AMD Athlon 64 2800+ 1.8 GHz
512MB Crucial DDR PC3200
ONBOARD GRAPHICS
Samsung SpinPoint 160Gb SATA
NEC ND3520 Dual Layer DVDRW
Microsoft Windows Xp Home SP2

For: £649.99

Any comments or suggestions?

I was thinking about perhaps including within the price, local delivery and setup.

 

Only thing I would say is make sure your customers understand the support you are giving - they will try and call you every second of your life to ask how they start Word or something annoying like that. Good luck though.

PS: Prices strike me as a little steep, but I haven't really looked at retail costs for those specs, so maybe I should just shut my mouth...

edit: scratch that prices aren't too bad.

 

Nice specs, nice prices.
Id also offer keyboard+mouse, printers, scanners, monitors as extras though so they can get the whole lot in one go, or just have several additions of each package with different extras.
The local delivery and especially the setup would be very good to people not so tech savy, and they will also be thinkign that they are saving more money as setup can cost like £25? from proper places, when you know itll only take you a few mins.
Good luck!

[edit] Also look for making a SUPER cheap computer for the first time buyers that only need for msn. internet, word etc. Dont forget to include firefox!

 

Thanks for the feedback.

I will include monitors, and keyboards/mice with the systems, but I haven't decided on what though.

The Home/Office PC was supposed to be the cheap PC Id offer . The idea was to use only newer components, such as the newer socket CPU's, to offer some "future proofing", which could be another selling point.

Support is the big issue though. This wouldn't be a fulltime thing at first, maybe one or two PC's a week, and it wouldn't be my main job. But perhaps being honest with people would help, and letting them know that I can support them, but not support to the level of 24/7/365.

 

Dont offer setup, people will expect support. Also, advertise it as fully tested and make sure you dont mind them bringing it back broken 6-12 months down the line.

I'd highlight the "gaming" side of it more, and make the office one much cheaper. Dell are doing an office PC for £183.

 

sounds like a good idea, btw, what are prices through newegg?

 

^ what he said about the office pc. If you use a Shuttle SK43G for example, and a Sempron or Athlon XP at about ~1.6 GHz in there, you'll be able to shave about 150 euros off the price, and still have a fast enough system for what people expect of an office pc. Word will run on it, right?
A 80 Gb HDD should also be enough i guess.. there's another 30

If they ever upgrade it'll only be the RAM. Or they'll just buy a new computer. So you don't really need to keep that option open.

The thing is.. I'm not sure who would buy fully built Shuttles.
Maybe i just hang out with the wrong people, but i think gamers usually build their own pc, especially if they have 1000 quid to spend. And families who want a pc for their 15 year old daughter to do homework (and msn) on will just buy the £183 Dell. Except if said daughter is a spoilt brat who can convince them to put the extra 500 in to get the 'cuuuute' SFF

Hmm long winded. What I'm saying is do some market research

 

pretty expensive if you ask me... i'd rather go buy a dell or something that i know is gonna be supported than spend more and buy it off "some kid down the road"

not meaning to piss on your parade or anything, just hoping to offer realism.

of course some people have never even heard of dell so you might be ok.

 

<offtopic>Im also gonna offer pc's locally. Im gonna rival you. Heres my best pakage beet that.

Cyrix 486 DX 2 66MHz
20MB 30 pin ram
14.4 KBPS modem
EGA 8bit 2MB video card
IDE host adapter
300MB HDD
3 1/2 floppy 1.22MB (updrade too 1.44MB for $50)
5 3/4floppy 700KB
Laser disk drive (for hardcore gaming like tetris add $250)
200 watt power supply
$1300
</offtopic>

 

plain stupid

 

I would say make the office PC a Sempron, or maybe a ~2600+ XP if you really want to advertise good, low-cost power. Don't think a web browser, Microsoft Word computer needs a 64-bit tbqh.

Also, you may want to offer Microsoft Office, that's a huge selling point. Even Dell and such don't always offer it.

 

Your right about the office/home one, Im going to revise that spec.

As for the Dell PC at £183. I really dont think any other PC manufacturer could offer a PC for such a low price, so its not even worth trying to compete. Dell have such huge buying power, that I think they are in a league of their own.

 

Have to agree tbh. Can't really see you making much out of this not at those prices. Good luck anyway

 

Is it just me, or does £350 seem like a lot to be upgrading from a 2800+ to a 3200+ and adding a 6600GT? I was trying to do it with USD conversions, so maybe that's why it seems high.

 

This is meant to be a part time thing Im not going to setup in business doing this. Even though I would love to.

Obviously, it would be mainly friends, friends of friends, and anyone they know, etc, who would be buying these.

 

See my thread in price check forum about my budget system

 

well in that case, rather than giving them some fixed systems that they can choose from, why not do a more custom build, ask them what they'd be using it for and how much they'd be thinking of spending etc and build the machine acording to that (with a certain % markup for yourself ofcourse)

 

having a look at these a ffew suggestions. in the Office PC get rid of the 160gb sata, y does an office need that kinda power. also they wont need a DVD burner, 3rd get some cheap ram like adata or hyundai (quite good for the price)

 

use a non-64 bit processor in the home/office one, joe average won't need it for atleast two years and by then he'll need a faster one anyway. you might like to write up a small manual about how to use the computer: how to turn it on, why a certain light is flashing(people tend not to like flashing lights), how to open the CD drive, etc

 

We get ripped off. (uk thing)