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Buying a used PC on EBay
There are hundreds of used PCs for sale on ebay at any one time. These are very cheap, as they should be when you compare the specifications with a new computer. I recently helped my parents who are in their 80s to buy a new PC in this way. I had never bought anything on Ebay before. I view the site as addictive and have visions of spending all my time checking auctions rather than doing anything even vaguely useful. My parents had an old Pentium computer with Windows ME on it. Crashes were a daily event and much software would not work on this operating system. Many of the computers on offer on Ebay had no Buy it Now option. I needed to close the deal that day, so the field narrowed considerably. Any PC that was advertised with Windows 98 was deleted from my list. I have had Windows XP for a long time and it works well. My parents are not into video games, watching on-line films or any other graphic intensive application but I wanted 512Mb of RAM. Almost every computer available only had 256Mb RAM, not enough for a stable XP system, so I deleted those from my list of possibles. One computer fitted my requirements. It had XP Pro, 512 Mb RAM, a 133Mhz Front Side Bus motherboard which was virtually unheard of in a system more than four years old, a fast processor and a big hard drive. I bought that PC. It was originally a high spec gaming machine, complete with 256Mb video card, and had all sorts of imitation Vista add-ons installed on it. (They came off straight away). It is very easy to become carried away on auction sites like E-bay, but if you have a list of your requirements and you refuse to deviate from them, you can pick up a bargain. Many people had PCs for sale where the operating system had been upgraded to XP, but without any extra RAM being installed. As a wish list for an online PC auction, assuming you are looking for a basic PC for web browsing, running the occasional old game and word processing consider my list: Windows XP Pro
512Mb RAM
800MHz Pentium 3 or 4 (or AMD equivalent)
80 Gigabyte hard drive
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