So I went to sell some old laptops that I had (decommissioned and destined for the scrap heap originally) to the local computer store to make some scratch, one of the guys said the owner is getting into the gaming PC market because they had a bunch of spare video cards

This store had some LED-lit video cards sitting out in the open going at full speed so I suspected something was up for a while, and I asked, "what, did he used to mine etherium or something?" yep, turns out. lol.

I'm haggling the hell up on these laptops, then ceasing business with them, don't care if they're local if they're gonna be scamming people into a bunch of old mining cards