Three week mad one

I've already blogged about the fate of the first TB360-BTC PRO motherboards, set up as an i3-9100F 1080P gaming machine with the lovely white case and ASUS GTX 1060 that I'd had for a week, there was good profit there and my purchase spreadsheet was looking a lot less lobsided with the $300 cash coming into the hobby. This encouraged me to go on a three week selling spree with a goal to pay for everything with profits and see what was left "free" and of course, give myself encouragement to buy more.

A local business, Lighthouse Brewing, unfortunately went out of business after 27 years and I bought six laptops off them for $20 a piece, it gave us a reason to go down to Esquimalt a couple of times and enjoy beers at the other brewery, Driftwood. The laptops from Lighthouse were a couple of 15.6" Acer and four Lenovo T450.

This is one of the Acers after I cleaned it up, all six of the laptops need a lot of cleaning as they have been used in the industrial area of the brewery, the two 15.6" laptops cleaned up surprisingly well and sold quite quickly on Marketplace and between the two of them I made $100 profit which went into the spreadsheet, before that I had sold the original T450 for $100 profit, everything helping towards my goal of breaking even.

I should explain that, when Lighthouse announced their "last day and yard sale" they had a bunch of laptops and computers for $20 a piece and I had bought the first T450 and a HP Elite 8200. That was it and I was kicking myself for not buying them all once I realised what was in them. There was a second chance a week or so later and I went back and bought five more laptops, two Acer and three T450.

In the interim I sold many things, boxes of AIO, radiators, 3 pin fans, a toughbook, some old CPUs and RAM for gold recovery and what I would call a "Frankenstein" computer (which I will blog about soon if I remember) and by the middle of March my books were balanced, even the mining rig and 5 graphics cards were paid for and I had a big list of stuff that had turned out free, which I will blog about immediately after this.

It has been a mad, mad, mad three weeks.