He is going to be waiting a LONG time to sell that. There is just a limited market. While you will find that a rack mounted ups will sell, these systems are used to support a whole business computer room. If you were running a bank and had hundreds of thousands of dollars in your network system, why would you think they would skimp on the backup? Of course they would want something new with a warranty and support. If you were a smaller business, a couple rack mount ups system will usually do just fine, same goes with the hobbyist.
If you had it working and could show people the system in action, there would be some interest from a few people.
This guy fell victim to the reasoning that if the system is 50,000.00 new it must still be worth a lot used. This just isn't the case. People payed thousands of dollars for 286/386/486 computers. The value is what someone would pay for the system, not what YOU paid for the system.
When I buy I only pay what I know I can get for the item in scrap plus make a few dollars. If it resells, great, it not, I'm still in the black.
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