A lot cheaper than buying new.

would have normally.

Also refurb home audio gear. Some synths too. Some vendors have very strict reverb process.

That was six years ago and she still uses it every day for email and Facebook, and it still has the Goodwill price sticker on the side.

The power supply smoked after about a month. It only took one call to NewEgg. They expressed me another one and I was back in business. They didn't want the old one or any kind of proof that it actually was bad. This experience balances out the new 4 in 1 printer that I bought from them that lasted about four hours out of the box. I bought it from one of their sub vendors and I had to deal with him. Long story but I ended up just saying fuggit. It's still out in my garage.

The last upgrade I bought was some $10 memory.

I bought a $30 usb stick drive the other day as additional backup for my 30,000+ collection of family photos. Most of those are from digital cameras, the rest scans of negatives, slides, and prints. (For a long time I had my film developed at Costco and got the digital pictures on CD.) I may have been motivated by all the disaster news, thinking it would be handy to have something I could quickly put in my pocket if I had to flee this place.

All the boxes of old photos and scrapbooks would fill a pickup truck...

The last "new" conventional computer I bought was a shopworn 386 for $300. (The 486 had just been released...) Since then I've diverted many computers from the e-waste stream, maybe upgrading them by maxing out the memory, but that's it.

A computer that's been rendered frustratingly slow by Microsoft Windows cruft becomes quite usable again running Linux.