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Good "At Home" pc jobs out there?

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Coldkilla

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I'm going to be cutting down my college courses next semester (Still a freshmen, but am almost forced to cut down my classes).. and I was wondering if there was any money in "At home PC jobs"..sort of like a freelance type deal..

Do people make any money by building computers and selling them on, say ebay.. or do you need a 'contact' for whole sale price to bring prices down? or is this a profitable business in general?

Perhaps an @ home "pc fixer" ...

Look i dont know what titles are out there, but for self promotion and marketing.. I can do that, it's just the idea that I would like to work around. If yall have any positive experiences you'd like to share, please do. I'd like to follow some suggestions and possibly use them as a 'template' to making myself ready for the end of december/january when the semester ends..

Thx.. all idea's appreciated!!!
 
It can pay pretty well being a freelancer.

Basic idea is to hide in the asteroid fields near major shipping routes, and be well-armed enough to take out any escorts quickly. You have to have a good feel for how much attention security forces are concentrating in the various sectors to make it a long-term gig, though.
 
lol at jagec's response 😀

I wouldn't even look at building PC's and reselling them - the market is very competitive and margins would be minimal. I'd stick to being an '@ home pc fixer'.
 
yeah, building PC's is a no-go. Too time consuming, and joe tard will buy a PC from you then every time it "goes wrong" (they fill it with spyware and 3000 viruses) they come back to you accusing you of 'building the computer wrong'. Plus there's a stack of overheards and you simply cannot compete with dell when it comes to price, parts or service.

Having said that, when I was at uni, I lived in a small town and has a small business on the go. Advertising was simply some printed adverts stuck on the notice boards of corner shops. The rest was all word of mouth. I'd not have been able to retire on it any time soon, but it was enough to see me through uni. The other advantage was that people would call you, and YOU organise a time that's good for you to tsee their machine, instead of having to work 5 hours per day, every day without fail, at the local superstore.... and it paid loads more and was a respectable job instead of a demeaning shelf-stacker.
 
Here's another vote against building custom PCs. Like loic said, the moment your custom PC does something the customer doesn't like - even if it's because they opened the case and dumped a gallon of milk in it - you're going to get a phonecall. These customers are like a disease.

Honestly, fixing them at home isn't much better, because then you're just inheriting that same customer from someone else. If you have the patience and you're good at what you do, you can make good money.
 
Can you deliver me a PC for under $600, with 15" flat panel, 1 year of support + at home support, and include an operating system as well, with the system price?

Don't do it. Small PC shops are closing and cannot make it. The only way possible for you to even come close to accomplishing it is, if you lived in a rural area, where the community was still living in the stoneage, and didn't know anything about Dell.

I think another option of something to do "at home" would be web programming and graphic design.
 
Is there any 'somewhat' profitable PC freelance opportunities? My college hours are insane and I would love to have something that will let me make money on my own schedule and not some stuck up boss that shoves me around all day. It doesn't have to be a "gold mine" but, any ideas on a good place to start would be helpful.. b/c after reading that pc repair/building/etc. isn't the way to go (now I agree with competitors prices and warrentys)..
 
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