Technology Upgrades!

My current career in IT assigns me to work around alot of people in this industry. I wanted to share what I've done over the last few months that enabled me to both upgrade our laptop and digital camera.

Actually, this was stumbled upon inadvertently. While in a conversation with a co-worker about laptops, they mentioned that they would like to get a decent one for some basic upkeep of email and their little league stats website. As the conversation continued, we discussed various options. I usually get asked about such on occasion. Well, the light bulb came on when I remember that earlier in the month, when I was researching good used-refurbished laptops for a client, how inexpensive technology can be. Usually notebook and PC's that are 6-12 months behind the "technology-snowball", can be purchased from the authorized resellers for fractions on the dollar.

Case in point is a Compaq/HP notebook, that was selling for $1400-1800 a year ago , can now be acquired for a paltry $699-$750!!! Yep, I done it for the client and she was ecstatic - the tip brought that out! Anyway, as you can see what if you purchased such and say in a year from now you are itching for the newer, but NOT the newest in laptops.

Well, start talking to people and place a cheap free ad for your laptop. The one that I recently had was a P3 700Mhz notebook that ran great. I wanted a faster 1500Mhz with a DVD/CDRW drive so I sold the P3-700 for $400 and bought the newer one for $800. Everybody wins and are happy. I did this with a digital camera that we bought just over a year ago. We paid about $199 for it and sold it to a family member for $99 and put that towards the newer one and gained a megapixal in quality that includes a dye-sub printer! It only cost us $100 for the upgrade and again, everybody wins.

I'm not saying that this will work for everybody, all of the time, but if you plan ahead and purchase quality products, it can work. Save your manuals and original boxes... always a juicy way to entice the deal. Don't forget Ebay and other auction sites out there. You can always tell a prospective local customer that the item is on Ebay and whoever responds first get the item.

Have fun and enjoy!

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