Buying faulty laptops on eBay to sell for profit - can fix them and is it worth my time?

Описание: I bought 9 laptops and two tablets from eBay that were being sold for spares or repair. In this video I do an initial assessment and see if they can be repaired fairly quickly. The easy fixes are taken care of in this video but at least two need a lot of time spending on them and really need their own repair video. Two of these for future videos power up but there is no POST / video out and the other has been dropped and damaged.

**update - The HP X2 tablet in the beginning was deemed BER due to a shorted cable trapped in the broken hinge which had damaged the motherboard. This was re-sold on eBay making a loss and the Acer was stripped and sold for parts netting a £30 / $35 profit**

I look at what I have bought, how much I have paid and see if it's worth my while and how much potential money I could make. I would do this on a weekend to make some extra money if it is worthwhile as it is a time consuming process and I do have a day job.

These particular laptops came from private sellers rather than traders so they are more likely to be complete. Traders usually sell incomplete, scrap laptops that seem to have already had their good parts stripped or have so many missing components they are for parts only. Unless you have a good source of second hand parts from previous job lots it's unlikely you will make much money if at all doing this as a one-off.

I found you have to be very careful and try and pick the genuine spares or repair items rather than what's left over from a trader or computer repair shop's scrap bin. Almost all I looked at had the HDD or SSD removed which makes sense for data security but most also had no RAM and other missing parts. That was a red flag to me indicating I could just get a pile of non working parts and unable to repair the laptop at all as almost everything would have to be replaced.

Anyways I think I got a good deal out of this batch. They came from two sellers which I explain in the video. Update: To cut a long story short this lot made me around £150 / $177 profit but I think that was mainly because the laptops were complete and didn't have any missing parts. Main faults were faulty hard drives and / or liquid damage. The Samsung tablet made the most money as all it needed was a new USB connector and sold for £90. However the laptops some I made a loss on and the others I made around £20 profit each totalling about £80 which was nowhere near what I was expecting but it's a profit nevertheless. Was it worth my time though? That's debatable as it was a lot of effort for not much return.

Keep an eye out for more repair videos and then I'll go back to avionics or other interesting electronics teardown videos.