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Podnutz Daily #212 - It's Fun Being Your Own Boss
Steve C. is joined by Steve D'Amico from SMD computer and can also be found on his EBay store
Running time: 1:02:31 Added: 9 Jan 2010
Computers worked on:
Customer had a dead computer, Steve D. went there and found the computer had been powered down due to a reset from windows update
HP ZV5000 Laptop with what seemed like a power jack problem, Steve D. ordered a new jack, but still had intermittent power problems, tried a different style jack with success
Steve D.'s Ebay tips:
Use advanced search terms, for instance within a category
Know your hardware terms such as bezel for searching
Use wildcards such as asterisks(*) in search
Search tips: include store inventory
You can use search terms like google including the minus sign to exclude certain items
sometimes a whole laptop may be available for the price of the part you're looking for, the extra parts may be usable for other jobs
For an laptop LCD replacement, sometimes you can find the whole lid for the same price
Look for OEM part numbers on name brand parts such as motherboards
Look for variations in model numbers using wildcards
For selling obscure parts or parts that will take time to sell, you should open an ebay store
To open an Ebay store Steve D. recommends a minimum of a 100 parts to sell
Topics discussed:
Pros and Cons of being self-employed
Steve D. stocks hardware such as optical mice when deals arise for later sales
Replacing bulbs in Laptop screens
Steve C.'s Website development product is coming soon
Voicemails/Emails:
DoorToDoorGeek calls with info about Windows 7 system restore, rebuilding the page file versus defragging the page file, and communicating with people
Winston has a Compaq pressario c700 that gives an irq error when booting, boots OK into Ubuntu, Steve C. thinks it's a software bug with Windows 7
Amy has an Acer inspire one 150 netbook with a locked bios, Steve C. recommends pulling the Bios CMOS battery and see if that clears the password
Tom writes about a computer that had problems after a driver install, he later found that was unrelated when he used Crystal Disk Info and it showed a marginal hard drive
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