Originally Posted by
gabosaurus
A guy in my husband's office flips laptops as a hobby on the side. He has ads is a few periodicals offering to buy non-working laptops. Of course, this is Orange County, home to an army of spoiled rich kids. He told us once how amazed he is at kids (and some adults) who jack around with their computers and never even try to fix them. Instead, they just buy a new one. Topic in point -- he bought an almost new Mac Air that had overheated and shut off. He bought it for $100. Repaired and cleaned it, resold it for $1200.
I made some nice money backna day, buying "dead" CD players and then DVD players, junked because they quit working. Most always, it was a 50 cent o-ring which they use as a drive belt for the carriage, that was the culprit. I would buy these for a buck, put the 50 cents into them, and flip them for $15 or $20. I did it with VCRs as well, before they started becoming way cheap to just replace.
'Is there anything wrong with anything.' Is that what you're asking, friendo?