Revenant Soul Gaming- Mine and a buddy's new company

[ishtharo]

Hey guys, figured I would let you all in on this.

Me and a buddy have started up our own fledgling company named Revenant Soul Gaming, basically dedicated to the production of quality gaming computers.

Our first one built is up on ebay now, check it out:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&item=250405626642

If yall want something custom, you can message me.

So enjoy the eye candy.... AND TELL YOUR FRIENDS!

EDIT: Thankyou to whoever moved this from General to Off Topic, I had a brain fart at 2am after being up for almost 24.

[TheMoonlightBecomesYou]

No offense, dude. But I got a better PC + dual monitors(22" + 19"), for half what you're selling this for. You should lower the bid starting to like... 1000? If you're in columbus, you know you can build this exact PC at Microcenter for ~1,300.

I'm not trying to discourage you, but help in some condescending way.

[ishtharo]

lol no offense to you as well, but I guarantee you dont have a better compy than this for half the cost unless you bought it off a buddy or got a massive discount, as this comp was built and designed using micro center. That at cost of this is obviously less than the asking price

As with any computer building endeavor, this work off the premiss that someone doesnt know how nor wants to build their own. Its fun to actually try to build this comp on say Dell, HP or alien ware, because you cant. Dell is the only one that gets close enough, and its 600 more expensive there with out warranties.

Also, f i were to lower the starting bid to 1000, I'd take a loss on this lol. I would use the Buy It Now option, but ebay has changed their rules since I have last used em 2 years ago.

[ExileStrife]

http://secure.newegg.com/WishList/PublicWishDetail.aspx?WishListNumber=11457566

It costs less than a thousand bucks to make this on newegg (923.91 to be exact), so you could still post this at 1000 and make money off of it.  Also, for something being marketed as a "gaming PC," it sure has a poor video card in it compared to everything else.

When selling machines on ebay, you are selling little more than the components themselves.  This means you can't offer longterm service, warranties, or any other kinds of guarantees.  Therefore it's difficult to make much of a profit off of each item you sell.  You and your buddy would do well to try to shoot for about 100 dollars profit on each machine you sell, which in reality coverts to quite a bit (you probably spent about 5 hours of time ordering, building the machine, and posting to ebay, which will result in about 20 dollars/hour for your work).

My hat goes off to you if you actually managed to sell the computer at the price you've posted it at, but otherwise you should be prepared to lower its cost if you want to move it out of your hands.

If you manage to sell a couple of these computers at a profit of 100 or so, you'll be able to start massing up enough cash to do a bulk order on processors or motherboards which will give you a future advantage in pricing.  It's a slow and steady race.  Don't expect to make 1k off of the first machine you sell.

[ishtharo]

While you have a point, I must disagree on the graphics card. For the cost it is outstanding, and will run any game out there in HD.

And while yes we cant offer a warranty or long term service, its still a fine machine for the price. As stated, try to build this on any of the other big computer company sites.

We built this one using part from micro center, because frankly I dont trust new egg, and with shipping costs it would have come out to be around the same price.

In theory we will be normally marking up price of 25% to 50% depending, but this was marked up so high because of tax season, you know how money burns a hole inpeoples pockets.

[ExileStrife]

3-day shipping on that to Columbus Ohio is $17.53, bringing the total to 941.44 dollars.  I don't know why you don't trust newegg...they have one of the best return and RMA policies out there and their bulk pricing is great for starting businesses without the resources to make reseller contracts.

I don't know what you're confusing the graphics card with.  It's a bad card for gaming.  It's intended purpose is for desktop applications and movie watching.  This is one benchmark I pulled up on it -- there are plenty more to look at if you do a search.

Tax season is no doubt a good time to sell high, but I still think you guys have lofty expectations.  Good luck though!

[ishtharo]

My thanks mate.

Though through testing ( as I have this graphics card in my personal computer), There so far isnt a game that I cant just bend over and rape metaphorically speaking with this graphics card.

The price, should we not get a bid on it in 2 days, will be lowered to 1500. That will cover shipping and retarded ebay fees and still give us a good return.