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goldenchild said:
Now if only they banned gold "flake".


And they should restrict the use of the word "gold" to apply only to the metal Au, rather than the color. The color should be required to the term "gold-colored," or "golden colored." And there should be a notice of such on every page that uses any of those terms. It doesn't seem likely to happen, but it would save their complaint department a lot of grief.
 
so this is what brazilian gold looks like? http://www.ebay.com/itm/GOLD-NUGGET-BULLION-MUSEUM-QUALITY-BRAZIL-21-1-GR-ESTATE-FIND-/130630165159?pt=Paper_Money&hash=item1e6a2a22a7
 
Just mooching on fleebay and came across these couple of auctions, http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Used-Intel-Pentium-PRO-CPUs-x-9-Scrap-gold-value-working-/130634082336?pt=UK_Motherboards_CPUs&hash=item1e6a65e820 & http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/10-x-Intel-Pentium-Pro-200mhz-256kb-Cache-Processor-Socket-8-Gold-Scrap-/130632474315?pt=UK_Motherboards_CPUs&hash=item1e6a4d5ecb

Then I found this listing, http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/8x-Pentium-Pro-CPU-Processors-Gold-Recovery-Refining-Precious-Metals-Scrap-Lot-/130636053030?pt=UK_Motherboards_CPUs&hash=item1e6a83fa26 notice in the add the seller says "Apparently each chip contains a gram of gold!!!"

Based on Lazersteve's experiment with a PP yielding .33g's there's going to be some very disappointed buyers.
 
This guy is my new hero: http://www.ebay.com/itm/1-Gram-RIP-OFF-999-Pure-Silver-Shot-NUGGETS-BULLION-BAR-/170772838951?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item27c2daba27
 
You know... this seller might be on to something. If enough people did this then maybe auctions wouldn't get out of control like they do. He definately thought outside the box on this one. Then ebay might be a decent place to get scrap again. I actually thanked the seller for posting the auction 8)
 
Response from the seller:

"I thought my listings would help newbes buying PM. But the sad thing is, I've sold 2 1g so far. Are people not reading the listings, or do they just not care? I don't think I can make it any more clear that they are being ripped off!"
 
goldenchild said:
Response from the seller:

"I thought my listings would help newbes buying PM. But the sad thing is, I've sold 2 1g so far. Are people not reading the listings, or do they just not care? I don't think I can make it any more clear that they are being ripped off!"



Classic. :lol:
 
I think it's more that they know it's a rip off, but they don't want to pay $35 for 1 oz - they only want 1 g. possible for the novelty of it, maybe to spice up a present, maybe to do a chemistry demonstration in a high school...
I'm sure some people don't know it's a rip off, and it's good to inform.
 
I don't think they read the descriptions. We saw some pre-processed Gold fingers sell once for around $40 if I remember right.... :|
The feedback the buyer left was something like this "Sold me pre-processed firewood and sent me ashes". :roll:
 
People are going crazier than ever on Epay. The other day I sold one pound plus a bit more of pins from the seventies (and a few other items) That I got with a bunch of early Intel stuff. That one plus pound lot sold for $192.50 . Plus the shipping to Norway.
Now I know these are great pins, as pins go,, but,,,,really,,,, $192.50? Am I missing something? Could there really be that much gold there?
I have of course listed another pound now. I should set up my sulfuric cell and run a small batch to see what I get. But at that price I am thinking why bother with the time and labor..?
As an aside-
Has anyone here ever used epay to pick on a friend? I did today! My buddy wanted some un-circulated pennies and quarters that i had and offered to buy them. I didn't really want to sell them but figured What the heck. I said, "I don't know I think I'll list them on Ebay to see what they do.." He was pissed... But he bought them anyway. I know that I loose the money from the fees but it was worth it to here the annoyance in his voice. hahahaha Guess that he wanted them because they were from his kids birth years. So i told him I would buy the beer tonight just to be fair. He could have gotten them a lot cheaper If he would've looked around.
I hope everyone is doing well!!
Jimmi_p
 
I just thought it was funny, like a squirrel chewed these off and posted on ebay

http://www.ebay.ca/itm/SMALL-AMOUNT-SCRAP-GOLD-COMPUTER-TERMINALS-/360429494621?pt=UK_Motherboards_CPUs&hash=item53eb45a15d
 
I just thought it was funny, like a squirrel chewed these off and posted on ebay

jack_burton said:
There's way too much sterotyping in that last link... Glasgow.. Macgreggor... Bagpipe60.... :lol:

If it ain't a sottish squirrel then it's crrrrap
 
Fingers from 5 cards and 2 ram sticks and it's already over $5.00 US? I think we may be about to see a new record high per pound of finger scrap. :shock:
 
I've got 2.1lbs I'm putting on tonight of almost all slot 1 pentium II fingers. Plus some other ceramic chips. I'll put a link up when I'm done if ya'll don't mind.
 
Sounds great Smack, but maybe you should consider dividing it up into lots of a few chewed off pieces and posting big pictures! :roll:
 
http://www.ebay.com/itm/HTC-HD7-8GB-Black-Unlocked-store-display-/290662185707?pt=Cell_Phones&hash=item43acd0faeb

The item description clearly states that this phone does not work nor will it ever work. It is a hollowed out weighted store display and yet look at the selling price. Now tell me that people read the descriptions before bidding. The sad part about this is, the seller will probably have to refund the full price anyway when the buyer realizes what they bought, even though it was clearly described as non-working. :|
 
Buyer clearly want to deceive. Otherwise he would not post technical specifications on piece of plastic filled with guess what - again plastic. He would just put last two sentences he included on bottom in fine print. I would ban people like him from ever selling or buying anything again.
 

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