Can't speak to computer hardware, but I was gearing up my home office a few years ago (pre-pandemic) and I found an office chair I wanted on craigslist. It was

Can't speak to computer hardware, but I was gearing up my home office a few years ago (pre-pandemic) and I found an office chair I wanted on craigslist. It was a great deal, about 55% of retail and seemingly in good shape. The guy texted me an address and when I got there, it was a house in a residential area. He opened the door and the house was floor to ceiling jam packed with office chairs. There was barely any room to move around and I remember it took him about 10 minutes to Tetris the chair I wanted out of the tangle. I couldn't help but ask what the deal was, and he said his fulltime job was to search for companies that went out of business and then go buy valuable stuff from them. He didn't say how he sourced these companies, but it seems like there's an active trade in buying this stuff and reselling it through various channels.