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Ebay for certain ewaste is overpriced. Take a look at any pentium pro. The gold content in one pent pro is estimated between 0.3-0.5 grams of gold. Those yields are from people who have run them for years. One of which is a member here. Some people on ebay have listed them as yielding as much as 1 gram of gold..BS!!!!! So lets do some math.
Gold as of right now is $1243.00 per toz(troy ounce). There are approx 31 grams per toz. 1243/31= $40 per gram approx.
So lets say on the high side a pent pro yields a half gram of gold. $40.00/2= $20.00.
Take into account the time and chemicals it takes to get the gold, I personnaly would not be spending more than $10 on one pent pro. And even at that price I would be making only a few dollars profit.
Now take a look at what pent pros are being listed at or sold for and I bet it is in the $25-$30 range. I think that most people who buy at these prices are either- blinded by the gold, to steal one of olddudes sayings or speculating that the price of gold will increase and will resell somewhere down the road. Home refiners are not buying at these prices that I can assure you.
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