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SpedEd · Joined: 03 Feb 2006 Location: ROK

Hello people:

Where are the good places in Seoul to find old school PC hardware. My objective is to build a PC with top of the line hardware but as cheaply as possible. Are there vendors around that speak some English that carry used (cheap!) PC hardware in Seoul.
Specifically, I'm also looking for a Voodoo 5 video card with 64MB vram and the best Creative Labs sound cards for under $50.

Demophobe · Joined: 17 May 2004

I can't get too specific, but if you go to Yongsan in the building with the big AMD balloon on top, there is a whole area with bins of really old used parts. It's near the back of the second or third floor. BX boards, Voodoo cards, RivaTNT...the works.

I'm sure someone will give better directions than that, but it's there.

SpedEd · Joined: 03 Feb 2006 Location: ROK

demophobe, do you mean the old Yongsan market building (across the catwalk) from the station exit 3?
By the way, are there weird hours over there or something? I went on Saturday and the place was shutters and boards, and my boss told me that it's also closed on Sundays. Geez, when's a guy supposed to find the time to go!?

Demophobe · Joined: 17 May 2004

That's the place, mate. Yeah...strange hours. Mondays aren't good either, if I recall correctly.

Anyhow, it's a graveyard of computer parts for next to nothing.

ChopChaeJoe · Joined: 05 Mar 2006 Location: Seoul

Demophobe · Joined: 17 May 2004

SuperHero · Joined: 10 Dec 2003 Location: Superhero Hideout

ChopChaeJoe · Joined: 05 Mar 2006 Location: Seoul

Demophobe · Joined: 17 May 2004

Erm...alright...."haggle" then.

ChopChaeJoe · Joined: 05 Mar 2006 Location: Seoul

Ahhhh, of course.

Still, way too high of a starting price. What's my counter offer, 1000 won?

Juregen · Joined: 30 May 2006

ChopChaeJoe · Joined: 05 Mar 2006 Location: Seoul

I've done some serious haggling in Yongsan. I know the game. But we're talking about them offering a price 3-4x it's value. 140,000 won down to 90,000 won is, what, a 1/3 reducation in price, approximately.

SpedEd · Joined: 03 Feb 2006 Location: ROK

Yeah, bartering for electronics stuff could get awkward but I think haggling is a cakewalk. I always did it back home and I've done it here.

I spotted a large survival knife in Itaewon that I thought was novel, but the vendor wanted too much for it at 25,000 won and I let her know this. She then asked me what I wanted to pay for it. I said 10,000 won. She said no way. I then gestured that I would go and that I might be back later. She reneges, and I get the knife for 15,000 won. A 66% discount for four mintues of "effort" is stellar savings for anybody Razz

keninseoul · Joined: 09 Mar 2004 Location: Seoul

There are 2 other spots in Yongsan; the building with all the weekend stalls, facing south-east(?) has quite a few A/S type shops at the rear - to the right which have a good assortment of used PC parts (main floor), and if you exit that building at the far rear - on the left side, there is a squat building with a wide alley way - shops on the left side of it have used parts.
No odd hours, as I know - open on weekends, too