Is it worth pulling EPROMS?

Originally Posted by Bear

I can't see where they're even worth messing with. Even at the $10 rate JG posted in that Ebay thing. There's at least a hundred chips there, and if you can find and pull them in less than a minute each, you're excessively well streamlined for targeting $10lb chips.
So, lets say they only costed you 90 minutes there, how much was the listing, not only in fees, but in time? The packing, and the shipping? Then, the possible chargebacks?
Now, lets go the simpler $5 route. You've got at least an hour and a half into these 90-100 chips that's worth $5, when most likely the boards you pulled them from bring $4, so you're making a dollar every hour and a half?
It just don't make sense to me

This makes allot of sense bear thanks. while pulling IC's off boards may not make sense selling loose ones for $5.00# doesn't either.

Last month I was given 20# of IC's in tubes I now I can sell them for $5.00# to buyers or have them refined for close to ten times the amount in gold recovered. even if a toll refiner charged 60% which is very high that's still 4 times the amount i would have revived. Some times the fast money will cost you.

Ebay is the worst place to sell stuff in my opinion the fees are high and you have no control over your money.



Eric