So firstly I want to say that I'm feeling so much better than before, well other than a bit of coughing sometimes. 

Secondly, in my last blog post I hinted at what I was going to do going forward concerning finances.

The plan is to sell mostly prebuilt gaming computers and the occasional separate component if I'm unable to use it myself. 

I already have some stuff that can still catch a decent chunk of money, so if I basically put that all together I can use it as a starter capital of sorts. I already sold a Ryzen 7 5800X for $100 to a family friend. It's under what the average selling price is for that CPU but they said one of their friend's birthday was coming up and they wanted to try streaming games, asked if I had any spare parts that could do that, so I let them have this one.

I'm probably also going to take some time to buy broken/for parts components and seeing if I can fix them up. I actually do have a GPU that I could fix but first I would need to source a donor card for that or some spare parts, whatever I can find for it.

Any completely broken/bricked components I will just put in a bulk pile and sell it to a local electronics recycler. I have a 512 GB SSD that unfortunately gets ridiculously hot no matter what and locks up, which makes it unusable. I also have 2 motherboards where the pins are screwed up too badly for me to attempt to fix (I salvaged the wifi card from one of them at least). Those will be the first to be in that pile.

As for everything else, I'm still looking into stuff like shipping and financials, and inventory management. With shipping, I told my family that they can give me any of those soft foam, bubble wrap and air packs from any packages, even larger boxes, so I can save money on some shipping materials.

I found a decent spreadsheet template for inventory management but it was kinda incomplete for some reason, so I've been editing it for my use. There is a small problem though where it's having an issue with one of the formulas ignoring everything except for the first data given on one of the pages. I've been tearing my hair out trying to figure it out that I might just add cells manually instead of have it do everything automatically. It's inconvenient but it works for now.

Anyways it seems like the target is to be around $300 - $600 and market it for games like Fortnite, Roblox, Minecraft... though the first system should be higher around $800 at least.

That shouldn't be too difficult (hopefully) as long as I put RGB lights everywhere it should be fine.

All of the systems will have Windows 11 (since so much software supports it by default), so the components will support it by default at minimum. That should be Intel 8th gen/AMD Ryzen 2000 at a minimum. As for GPUs, Nvidia said recently that they will end driver support for the GTX 10 series. And, AMD already ended driver support (I think) for RX 500 series a year ago(?) so I kinda need to get rid of this RX 580 and 590 sooner than later, market it for Esports or something. Then, just look for RTX 20 series, GTX 16 series for Nvidia at a minimum, and RX 5000 series for AMD at a minimum.

Other things I noticed based on bad reviews from other sellers is that people expect wifi and bluetooth with everything, so that has to come by default. They also sell PC's with parts that are too old to run new games for way too much money, and they are misleading and vague with what's inside it on the listing ("Intel I7 and Nvidia GTX" doesn't really give too much info). You have to scroll down to the description to find out that they're still vague on the CPU. They will say something like "Intel i7 Quad Core" pair it with some very cheap, underpowered GPU and charge like $500 for the whole thing. I don't think that's fair, they're selling something that isn't even worth more than $200 honestly.

Oh, and systems should come with 1 TB SSD's by default because of games being quite large now, a 500 GB will barely be enough. I can get those for $40 - $50 which isn't too bad.

I want to be as fair as I can be and make sure nobody is disappointed for the price they paid.

Lastly, here's a freebie song for sticking around and reading this post, just a little exclusive gift for MLPF. 

You can (should be able to) click on the 3 dots and download the MP3. It's called "Puffing Clouds" and is DnB, of course. I made this about a week or two before I got sick.

There's so much to do and so little time!