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Originally Posted by mikeinreco

You are comparing apples to oranges....how many pounds of hard drives did you process to get the 10lbs of hard drive boards

Okay ... well that's fair enough Mike. It is kind of apples and oranges.

I know from experience that the 3.5" HDD's weigh about a pound each so i randomly pulled 10 logic boards out of the bin in my shop. I weighed them up and they came to .68lbs. I'm happy to run the numbers that way if that's the way you would prefer it done.

10 Lbs HDD's complete gave me a net profit of fifty cents.

10 Random hard drive boards gave me a net profit of 13.09



The basic idea is that it generally works out better for me to ship higher value items. YMMV

(Mario, please excuse your buyer's thread interruption. This would be one of those times when it would be helpful to have a mod around. That way it could be hived off into another thread.)

Originally Posted by hills

Okay ... well that's fair enough Mike. It is kind of apples and oranges.

I know from experience that the 3.5" HDD's weigh about a pound each so i randomly pulled 10 logic boards out of the bin in my shop. I weighed them up and they came to .68lbs. I'm happy to run the numbers that way if that's the way you would prefer it done.

10 Lbs HDD's complete gave me a net profit of fifty cents.

10 Random hard drive boards gave me a net profit of 13.09

The basic idea is that it generally works out better for me to ship higher value items. YMMV

(Mario, please excuse your buyer's thread interruption. This would be one of those times when it would be helpful to have a mod around. That way it could be hived off into another thread.)

Something even more helpful would be for people to QUIT HIJACKING buyers threads. The mods didn't make this mess...why should they clean it up??

Originally Posted by jimicrk

Something even more helpful would be for people to QUIT HIJACKING buyers threads. The mods didn't make this mess...why should they clean it up??

Aint no mods around here lol.... this is the wild west!


Also, just food for thought, when I first came on to this site, and first went to the buyers thread pages, I looked at the ones with the most replies/views first.... so if anything, going on tangents in here should only help the buyer who submitted the thread as it boosts/pads the number of replies which was, at least for me, the first thing I looked at to decide how much I trusted different buyer on this site or at least how I determined who to look at first (thought being, lots of replies == lots of buys == lots of people using them == probably pretty good and trustworthy). Just sayin'.......


edit: also, at least my post was somewhat, although tangentially, related to what a person might want to do and what to send to THIS buyer in THIS thread. but yea, i was highjacking this thread for sure, my bad.

Originally Posted by jimicrk

Something even more helpful would be for people to QUIT HIJACKING buyers threads. The mods didn't make this mess...why should they clean it up??

Yeah!!