That's exactly what I used to do years ago. Also I bought lots of broken computers at government auctions and sold working parts.

It's called computer salvage - much like auto salvage

I would think EBay is the way to go for real money. It would teach you about buisness and make you a whole lot more money than most other things AND it works while you do nothing just about ya know?
Heres the toughest thing you will ever face with EBay. what would I sell, I happen to live in NY near the wholesale district and so its not that tough for me to try new things. I got into this BTW because of my son and his wanting/needing more money than I was willing to just keep shelling out. I may be persuaded to help you but onnly with your parents permission AND you would need to register some type of an account online to open an account with Ebay so you can get paid, something like Paypal would be the best. Welp, thats my 2 cents, good luck 2 ya no matter what ya do!

Still open to suggestions, Im thinking of making things for money, and salvaging old or unwanted computers and then building new ones to sell out of the components. This all depends on whether my parents let me, anyone know any good ways to scrounge computers/parts.

just ask around. put posters up at local stores, another idea is to build custom computers and sell them for double of what you payed, not only do you make a profit but you also learn even more about computers (money and usefull education is always a good thing). I calculated that I can make a computer w/o os for about 250. I know not everyone (including us kids and teens and some adults) has the money to spend on another computer but if you look around you can find a good deal on many pc parts. also the computer I calculated cost for, meaning already picked out the parts for would work fine for everyday use and some games.

yea, im getting some old school PC's for free.

I bought a new computer for my brother (when i as 12 BTW) rofl. it cost me $400AUD at the time.

Sempron 2200+
512Mb RAM
Saphire 128mb GFX.
cd-rw burner.
asrock? k7sg41 m/b
20gb HDD + the old 20gb HDD from the comp i blew up 3 times.

i found it cheap, ibut it was myjob to replace it since i blew up the other one 3 times, and only 2 were under warranty at the tikme it was aobut $500 parts to be replaced.

Ph30nix, AKA Duc Truffe!

wow, I just started a similar thread on the PCGamer forums, just to get the largest amount of suggestions possible, two pages of stuff in under 20 hours. Unfortunatly most of it was about assasinating people, or killing my parents for inheritance. Thank god the stuff here on Techspot has actually been usefull. By the way, does anyone know the minimum age for running a stall in Britain.

I just checked on their forums and this is one reply
I quote

"Sell off your excess body parts. Do you REALLY need two Kidneys? Auction part of your Liver to a Rich Alcoholic with Cirosis. Get cash by selling one Lung to a Smoker.

And heck, if you are fat, you've got plenty of skin to sell for grafts."

How useless is that?

I get alot of old PCs for free. Whenever i set up a new computer for a client, i alwasy ask what they are going to do with the old one. Most of the times its, pay for someone to recycle it or just take it to the dump, so then i ask for it. I dont fix up the systems, i just sell old parts in bulk.
Sean

Saving Up For A dS

im 13 and im saving up for a nintendo DS and 2 games for it ... how can i make quick cash? :hotouch:

work

do some odd jobs around the neighborhood.

heh! too true!

I started off being given a low grade pc, whic I upgraded within a few months in various ways. That gave me a collection of working parts, which I used to upgrade someone elses machine, leaving me with a collection of less useful working parts, putting them together, I made a first time PC for a technophobe, who gave me an old non-working computer to test. Id didn't work so got stripped for parts that did work.

Reecntly, I build a brand new pc for the person whos pc I upgraded originally, to replace the lame duck she boaght as a second pc. In return, she paid me generously, AND gave me the old pc. I'm now planning on using the old PC she gave me for a charitable environmental project. Possibly as a internet only machine, but if I absolutely have to, I'll be using it as a file server for the network I'm going to be setting up.... and so it continues. They themselves have a couple of old old machines that have been donated to them. Who knows?

I've done a fair few bits inbetween, and all of it charitably (not asked for a thing in return!). I rather suspect though that I caould easily have made one hell of a lot of cash from it if I'd been that way inclined.