Second-Hand PC: Am I paying too much?

Question

I'm paying £99 for this, plus £14 delivery. Is it worth it, or am I being ripped off? Product details are below:

Refurbished IBM Intel Pentium 4 2 .4 GHZ PC in perfect condition & full working order(fully tested), comes with windows xp,antivirus, firewall, office.Hard disc is wiped out and fresh copy of win xp installed for your piece of mind.( software wise like a new computer)

17" LCD Monitor (in very good condition)

Licensed windows xp professional( system discs included)

512 MB memory ( can upgrade to 1 GB for £16)

DVD writer, Fast 40 GB HDD

Sound, Network, USB.(2 front, 2 back).

Delivery £14 in London. Will deliver & setup & demonstrate that it is in full working order, Payment in cash.

Answer 1

seems ok hard drives abit small though depends on what you want to use it for

Answer 2

Seems a hoot (bargain) but ask to see it running first and check everything.

Answer 3

it sounds okay.

i would upgrade the hard drive and RAM

i would not use it for gaming but if u r using it to write papers or check emails, and other programs that don't demand a lot of memory and storage it should be fine

Answer 4

Very good deal.

Answer 5

It all depends on what you want to do with it.  My 1st impression is that the 40GB hard disk won't last long.  But for internet, email will be fine.  It says "office" in description but I presume you won't be getting MS Office.  You can download Star Office for free so then will be fine for Word Processing too.

Answer 6

Seems reasonable IMO

Answer 7

for a refurbished one thats fine just take it with the saying "you get what you pay for"

hopefully has abit of warranty?!

Answer 8

I think its not bad when you consider that it still costs around £50-£70 for xp you can always get a larger hard drive 320gb for around 50 on ebay so id go for it the way i see it is that if you bought new it would devalue a lot more than the one your gettin

good luck