Colleague repairs broken laptops and makes money with it?

ma
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My sister says that a colleague buys defective laptops from her and then repairs them. He then resells them for over 100,200 euro.

Is it realistic to make money with such a concept? He is supposed to make 500 euro plus every month. Greeting.

La

Can work well, just register a business and tax everything properly.

ma

He probably doesn't and sells privately. But is it realistic to do good plus with repaired laptops?

La

Then this is tax evasion and punishable.

Mi

My opinion, I only do this for private use, read the item description on Ebay carefully before I decide to buy it. Especially the laptops with good graphics tend to burn out the graphics card, which in such devices is not a card but a permanently soldered graphics chip. If there's in the Ebay description "Device starts up but screen remains dark" I leave my fingers off, the device is then only electronic waste. Disassembling, troubleshooting, possibly also make a working from two broken devices that is already out of date anyway, so you can't make a profit. From soup tipped over the keyboard to fan cooling fins filled to the brim with animal hair, I have already seen everything "Kotzwürg". This is a hobby for me, I think it would be a shame to scrap a good device with a nice big 17 inch screen because of a small defect, just because it doesn't have the latest processor, but that's a matter of opinion.

Na

No. Find a job instead or build something yourself