Gold price was: Re: ebay feedback

From: Innfogra_at_aol.com <(Innfogra_at_aol.com)>
Date: Tue Dec 7 14:42:27 1999

In a message dated 12/7/1999 2:39:41 AM Pacific Standard Time,
mikeford_at_socal.rr.com writes:

> What about PS/2 systems?
> My salvage guy is sitting at $3 each as-is on the pallet (maybe 100+ units)
> from 386 to 486 of mixed content (many I hope to find reasonably complete).
> I have about zero interest in the 386 and below (except for a few with
> kingston 486 upgrade chips), but would like to harvest the ram etc. out of
> the others leaving him motherboards and chassis. My guess is that he is
> giving me baloney and that his "buyer" at $3 each doesn't in fact want the
> PS/2 pallets at all, just the compaq and HP vectra. Opinion?

Actuall most of the Compaq and HP Vecra is scrap. There is more demand for
PS/2 on the secondary market. "No one ever got fired for buying IBM."

$3 each is a good price. Most of the value is in the ram and CPU chip. After
you pull that there is little value left. Current motherboards use little
gold. The plastic, frame and power supply are liabilities. It costs more to
pay someone to take it apart than you get for the materials.

Yes, there are buyers out there for these systems by the pallet load. I have
someone that wants more than a 1000 PS2s The price they are offering are
similar. I have someone that will buy 10,000 Pentium 90s or better. This is
for the CPU box only.

>
> Have any of you contacted some of the scrap or recycling organizations
> (trade groups etc.)? There has to be some "computer scrapper weekly" too.

There is no computer scrapper weekly that I know of. The margins are too
small to support a publication. There are several magazines that cater to
scrap metals and recycling. However computer stuff is a very small part of
the waste stream.

There is an online group called "Tradeloop" of the dealers I am talking
about. The subscription to the group is $50 per month. These are large
computer dealers trading among themselves.
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Received on Tue Dec 07 1999 - 14:42:27 GMT