It's hard for me to imagine there being a market for the XP towers in this area. Most are running a 500 or 800 mhz front side bus and that's a real limiting factor. They seem to be awful slow on the web. Folks seem to be going to small and portable things like laptops,tablets, i-phones, etc.
I haven't seen any towers that i could pick up free & scrap out in weeks. It seems like the supply of high grade stuff has run dry and even the mid-grade items have dropped off. There's no shortage of "Bubble Backs" and i'm even seeing more flat screens coming in. Going by the dates of manufacture many are less than six years old. The quality isn't very good.
Anyway ... I don't know if it's a seasonal thing or if it's a harbinger of things to come.
I did discontinue buying as of October 1st. It was well worth a try for a couple of years but it's very time consuming. In the end the juice just wasn't worth the squeeze. I can make more in one day on the jobsite than i can in a month of e-waste. Time is precious so you have to pick & choose the things that yield the most result for your efforts. It's just a rainy day hobby now.
I know i've said it before but i think we've entered the deflationary phase of the recession. If we've been six to seven years on the inflationary side of it we might be another six or seven years before things begin to level out. What happens with a deflation is that money becomes scarce. Prices drop over a period years.
If the dollar strengthens PM's will drop accordingly. Prior to the inflationary economic policies that overheated the economy from 1999 to 2006 gold was fixed at about 320.00 USD/oz.
< shrugs > It's all relative. If gold drops to 320.00$ your dollar will buy more at the store.
Anyone for gasoline at 1.00$ a gallon ?
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