Originally Posted by
hills
Maybe it's just gold fever ? That kind of greed causes all kinds of foolishness ?
I sometimes wonder if the refiners buy them at an inflated price so that they can get a better idea of what the actual yields are. I would imagine that kind of thing is a closely guarded trade secret. It's not that you would get the money but you might gain the knowledge ? (That could be far more valuable over the long run.)
I dunno ... doesn't make sense to me either. The boards are pretty and all but i'm not seeing 800.00$ + in material value there.
Hills:
I have a soft spot for Alphaserver boards. Every so often a "lot" of this nature will pop up on
Ebay as well. I saw one lot go for near $1K. Even if you were to de-solder all the chips in the lot offered, remove all the tantalum on the boards and then were able to sell the remaining boards for $6/lb.. The payout was about HALF of what they paid. Knowing those chips very well and their market value, as well as, doing
e-waste for 4 years.. whomever bought them lost.
Even if you have all the money in the world to do a "buy and hold" Gold would have to get in upwards of $2,000/troy to even begin to make money back.
I always say "you can't outbid stupid" this auction is case in point. I see it a lot. Local auctions with skids of desktops- first 3 rows are P4 and DuoCore, with 1-2 i5 or i7 processors in them on the skid, scant RAM and No HD's in them and they will sell for $500-$750. I've done the math, I've asked other e-waste folks if I'm missing something- everyone agrees that $500-$750 is just insane and a lose-lose proposition.
So to each his or her own I suppose.
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