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Re:Show HN: Low Cost Mini PCs by kyriakos on Thursday August 29, 2024 @08:18AM (#41390027)
This is fantastic. Can you add a filter for location US/Europe/Asia?
Re:Show HN: Low Cost Mini PCs by mjcurl on Thursday August 29, 2024 @08:25AM (#41390068)
Yes, should be easy. Would it work if it used the region's ebay marketplace to get results? The following could be added:

  EBAY_AT - Austria (ebay.at)
  EBAY_AU - Australia (ebay.com.au)
  EBAY_BE - Belgium (ebay.com.be)
  EBAY_CA - Canada (ebay.ca)
  EBAY_CH - Switzerland (ebay.ch)
  EBAY_DE - Germany (ebay.de)
  EBAY_ES - Spain (ebay.es)
  EBAY_FR - France (ebay.fr)
  EBAY_GB - Great Britain (ebay.co.uk)
  EBAY_HK - Hong Kong (ebay.com.hk)
  EBAY_IE - Ireland (ebay.ie)
  EBAY_IT - Italy (ebay.it)
  EBAY_NL - Netherlands (ebay.nl)
  EBAY_PL - Poland (ebay.pl)
  EBAY_SG - Singapore (ebay.sg)
Re:Show HN: Low Cost Mini PCs by JohnHammersley on Thursday August 29, 2024 @12:10PM (#41392320)
As others have said, a filter on item location would be ideal, but the region might also work. Specifically UK/GB for my use case :)

Thanks for putting the site together!

Re:Show HN: Low Cost Mini PCs by mjcurl on Thursday September 05, 2024 @03:21AM (#41454345)
Thanks! Here's the UK version: https://lowcostminipcs.com/uk/
Re:Show HN: Low Cost Mini PCs by JohnHammersley on Saturday September 07, 2024 @06:49AM (#41473088)
Amazing, thanks, and thanks for responding to this comment, much appreciated :)
Re:Show HN: Low Cost Mini PCs by RobotToaster on Thursday August 29, 2024 @10:57AM (#41391453)
Would be great to have a GB/UK version.
Re:Show HN: Low Cost Mini PCs by mjcurl on Thursday September 05, 2024 @03:21AM (#41454347)
Re:Show HN: Low Cost Mini PCs by Daneel_ on Thursday August 29, 2024 @11:00AM (#41391488)
Yes please, this would be very helpful (I’m in Australia).
Re:Show HN: Low Cost Mini PCs by inhumantsar on Thursday August 29, 2024 @08:36AM (#41390153)
region can help but Item Location is the important one
Re:Show HN: Low Cost Mini PCs by exacube on Thursday August 29, 2024 @08:29AM (#41390095)
yes that'd be great!

and if the price could somehow include the shipping rate to the country, that'd be awesome

Re:Show HN: Low Cost Mini PCs by prmoustache on Thursday August 29, 2024 @08:36AM (#41390157)
ideally you would add regional popular second hand websites too.

I don't know about the USA but in most europe countries ebay is less and less the default place to look for second hand items.

Re:Show HN: Low Cost Mini PCs by transpute on Thursday August 29, 2024 @08:44AM (#41390233)
What are some alternative EU sites?
Re:Show HN: Low Cost Mini PCs by prmoustache on Thursday August 29, 2024 @09:39AM (#41390686)
leboncoin.fr in France, subito.it I believe in Italy, in Spain Wallapop.es although wallapop also exist in some of those euro countries, anibis.ch in Switzerland, I am not sure about the rest and I guess they don't have a public api so you would probably have to rely on web scrapping.
Re:Show HN: Low Cost Mini PCs by aarroyoc on Thursday August 29, 2024 @12:48PM (#41392786)
+1 for Wallapop in Spain. There's also MilAnuncios, but Wallapop is what people say when they say they want to sell second-hand stuff
Re:Show HN: Low Cost Mini PCs by kyriakos on Thursday August 29, 2024 @09:21AM (#41390532)
I don't think there's an EU-wide site for used items unfortunately. Each country has a couple of local sites.
Re:Show HN: Low Cost Mini PCs by JoachimSchipper on Thursday August 29, 2024 @09:58AM (#41390896)
marktplaats.nl is the big "eBay-like" for the Netherlands.
Re:Show HN: Low Cost Mini PCs by Tepix on Friday August 30, 2024 @03:33AM (#41398505)
kleinanzeigen.de for Germany
Re:Show HN: Low Cost Mini PCs by CRConrad on Wednesday September 04, 2024 @02:15AM (#41442437)
blocket.se, tori.fi, huuto.net or huutokauppa.fi. I think.
Re:Show HN: Low Cost Mini PCs by beeboobaa3 on Thursday August 29, 2024 @09:10AM (#41390433)
ebay isn't widely used in the EU. Sure the sites exist, but they're just filled with ads, not by listings put up by consumers.

You'd need to support national alternatives, like marktplaats for NL

Re:Show HN: Low Cost Mini PCs by Tepix on Friday August 30, 2024 @03:33AM (#41398508)
It is still widely used in Germany.
Re:Show HN: Low Cost Mini PCs by kyriakos on Thursday August 29, 2024 @08:30AM (#41390102)
Yeah that works too :)
Re:Show HN: Low Cost Mini PCs by Tepix on Friday August 30, 2024 @03:43AM (#41398551)
Perfect, please do add these!
Re:Show HN: Low Cost Mini PCs by nolok on Thursday August 29, 2024 @10:48AM (#41391359)
Another approach for this if you're in europe (I do not know the market elsewhere) are the quality refurbished resellers (they buy bulk from companies upgrading, refurbish, sell with warranty).

Eg in France https://www.afbshop.fr/PC-Bureau or https://www.tradediscount.com/ordinateur-bureau/unite-centra...

Price might be a bit higher, but eg right now for sub 200 you can get a mini pc with ryzen 2400G and 16GB of RAM, with warranty. That's a great proxmox machine for jellyfin & co.

Re:Show HN: Low Cost Mini PCs by rkachowski on Thursday August 29, 2024 @08:25AM (#41390067)
seconded, i've been looking for exactly this kind of machine in EU and this would be ideal.
Re:Show HN: Low Cost Mini PCs by mjcurl on Thursday August 29, 2024 @08:27AM (#41390079)
which eBay marketplace do you use?
Re:Show HN: Low Cost Mini PCs by gerardpg on Thursday August 29, 2024 @08:52AM (#41390293)
Spain.
Re:Show HN: Low Cost Mini PCs by prmoustache on Thursday August 29, 2024 @08:34AM (#41390137)
I seconds that, without filters it is worthy of ending up on r/usdefaultism