Here We Go! My First Ebay Auction For Gold Recovery

Originally Posted by ElectricMetal

Congratulations on your sale!



My question:
Selling for Scrap vs. Selling for Functionality
$40 vs. $1000

Wouldn't you have potentially made considerably more money by selling these RAM sticks as functional entities?
Searching EBay and RAM reveals that there are many sales for RAM cards going for anywhere from $10-$40 per card depending upon the characterisitcs of the RAM.

From your picture, it looks as though you sold about 50 RAM cards for about $40 scrap value.
If we assume that only 50% of those were functional (probably a low and very conservative estimate), and they yielded a low sale price of $10 each (again probably very conservative), then you could have gotten:
(25 functional RAM cards) X ($10/card) = $250.

$250 (conservative estimate) for functional RAM cards
vs.
$40 for scrap value.

That seems like a large loss and given that higher estimations of RAM functionality and sale value could easily yield $1000. (50 functional RAM cards) X ($20/card) = $1000.

A $960 difference between functional vs. scrap seems to me to make it very much worth the time to investigate functionality and model #s. If it turns out a RAM stick is broken or completely out-dated, then at that point, selling for Srap makes sence.

But bang on the buck return seems to make investigation worth it.

Now take that same lot of ram. If its ddr ddr2 and ddr3 you need 3 seperate computer systems to plug that ram into and make sure it works. Granted im working on building such a test system myself from the scrap machine I get. Now take that same idea and put it into processors. You now have to have a god awefull ammount of motherboards to plug in the 500 different slots of processors. Now once you have said test bench set up you now have to factor in your time. What will it take to test every ram stick. I would think it would take about 10 minutes minimum.