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[Palladium]

Choice of electrolyte?

 

[jason_recliner]

http://www.ebay.com/itm/70-Pentium-Pro-Cpu-Chips-Scrap-Gold-Processor-Recovery-Vintage-Collect-/321706173099?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item4ae72ea2ab

LET THE PARTY BEGIN!!!!

This one has some potential to be very entertaining

holy crap there are some crazy people out there 2 days left and they are currently at 20.69 each!!! ive added this to my watch list just like the morgan dollar roll i watched go insane...a single roll of cc morgan dollars started at 9.99 and ended at 7899. i would put the link here but i seem to have deleted it from my watch list

I also watched this auction. It ended at US$1834. Someone is going to be very unhappy when they find they can't get 1.33g/CPU out of this.

 

[solar_plasma]

That is quite the price for PPs on german ebay, so if he would sell them there in small lots he would get his money back. Maybe even with a little profit.

 

[MarcoP]

I thought someone would be interested in this http://www.ebay.it/itm/331520946242 at the moment is just about at boardsort price but single sided only.

 

[edsikes]

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Scrap-gold-14k-1-8-grams-/261843747595? dont people have any clue about actual value???? 1.8 grams of 14k gold seriously $32 over current spot, to start!!!

 

[edsikes]

http://www.ebay.com/itm/U-S-Coin-Lot-33-90-Silver-Collection-/201299743218?ru=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.com%2Fsch%2Fi.html%3F_from%3DR40%26_sacat%3D0%26_nkw%3D201299743218%26_rdc%3D1&nma=true&si=vTUqnJ%252FcczO9SB1mPRaqXIri5jc%253D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557


someone got ripped off!!! this guy has no clue what he is selling.... he is calling this a 90% silver coin lot and there are 9 coins that are worthless and six that are only 40% silver. i cant read the dates on the dimes but none of those nickels are war nickels.... this guy got me as well, i bought what i thought was a gold filled lot and it showed up today and 2/3 of what was in it said avon or monet on it... bunch of costume crap

 

[edsikes]

http://www.ebay.com/itm/261843725207

the stupid hurts!!1 why in gods name would anyone EVER buy 2.5 grams of silver for 18 dollars????????????????????????????????????

 

[edsikes]

http://www.ebay.com/itm/261843725207

the stupid hurts!!1 why in gods name would anyone EVER buy 2.5 grams of silver for 18 dollars????????????????????????????????????

going through this guys page apparently he thinks everything is worth 2-3X as much as it is actually worth... just makes up his own prices

 

[acpeacemaker]

You can buy a 1oz John Matthey bar from JM for that. :/

 

[maynman1751]

i bought what i thought was a gold filled lot and it showed up today and 2/3 of what was in it said avon or monet on it... bunch of costume crap

Ed, if it was advertised as gold filled you can file a claim against him for misrepresentation. He either has to give you your money back or give a partial refund.

 

[edsikes]

i bought what i thought was a gold filled lot and it showed up today and 2/3 of what was in it said avon or monet on it... bunch of costume crap

Ed, if it was advertised as gold filled you can file a claim against him for misrepresentation. He either has to give you your money back or give a partial refund.

oh believe me as soon as he responded and told me he was sorry that he felt i got a good price, and he wasnt refunding me i filed a claim.... have to wait five days. for him to either initiate it or i escalate it to ebay then they will have to fulfill the ebay money back guarantee. i can tell you though im bout as aggravated as a yellow jacket in a pepsi bottle by it.

 

[maynman1751]

im bout as aggravated as a yellow jacket in a pepsi bottle by it

:shock: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: Love the cliche'.
I've been forced to file claims and have always gotten my money back or some other agreed reparation.

 

[jason_recliner]

You US Americans have Yellow Jackets too? In Australia we call them European wasps, German wasps or just Euro trash. I might have been known to call them on occasion the Gelb Luftwaffe.

Edit: I'm hoping that members recognise this is merely commonplace comic sarcasm (for in AU they are a declared pest) and that no offense to our human German friends is implied.

 

[Palladium]

U.S. American. lol Now that's funny.
we have wasp here to. Several different kinds. The yellow jacket is a different type animal .

 

[goldsilverpro]

A few years ago, we had a infestation of cicada-killer wasps, which I think are the largest wasps in North America. We had just dug up the front yard and had the grass re-planted. These wasps prefer recently tilled soil to dig their nests in. In the small front yard, I counted about 200 nests. They were easy to find since there is always a pile of dirt next to the nest hole. They mostly all contained a cicada which had been stung and paralyzed and then drug down into the hole.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sphecius_speciosus

When I went into the yard, a bunch of them would always buzz very close to me at very high speeds. At first, this was intimidating until I found out that it was mostly bluff. The males don't have stingers and the females usually won't sting you unless they get caught in your clothing or something similar. They are very, very hard to get rid of. You mostly have to wait until the end of the season. I had them for 2 years and none of the internet remedies seemed to work, including pouring ammonia down the holes. Some say to swat then with a tennis racket but that is easier said than done, since they are so damned fast. I'm sure the cicada population those 2 years had a lot to do with it. The first year we had the wasps, there were tons of cicadas.

Another interesting critter is the carpenter bee. They look just like bumble bees but they are solid black - no yellow stripes. They bore a highly polished perfect 3/8" hole in lumber and lay their eggs in it. For example, on a 2" x 6", they first bore about a 3" deep hole from the edge and then turn 90 degrees and start boring down the length of the board. They can be very destructive, especially if there are lots of them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_carpenter_bee

 

[acpeacemaker]

Being a heavy fly fisherman, with extensive study in entomology for longer than I can remember. There is one well known occurance that happens on the infamous Lake Taneycomo and White River tributaries that I witnessed every year. You would think it was a plague of the last days. Cicadas by the millions. Under Taneycomo dam you would see what should have been calm water looking like heavy whitewater due to fish feeding. I have broken several expensive rods do to this seasonal happening. But, also have landed some nice rainbows and browns that are well over 10 lbs.


Andrew

 

[Palladium]

Willow flies! They get so thick around here in the spring they can actually block out street lights. I love them because it's time to go fishing when i see them! Around here we have Willow jackets!

 

[edsikes]

Willow flies! They get so thick around here in the spring they can actually block out street lights. I love them because it's time to go fishing when i see them! Around here we have Willow jackets!

ralph.....
i see a fly that damn big i aint thinkin bout fishing. im looking for my shotgun... lmao.

 

[edsikes]

http://www.ebay.com/itm/321723687954?_trksid=p2060353.m1431.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT

again people causing others to pay more. i buy thousands of these watch bands but i refuse to pay over .15 a gram when i buy them if they are in excellent shape. .9-.11 cents is closer to my normal pay but these idiots bid up 161 grams of gold filled cap watch bands to 39 cents a gram.
thats ridiculous.
there isnt anything at all for scrap there. at best 1/3 of the weight of the band is gold filled then its .05 percent of the weight of that so all told in that little pile of watchbands at maximum 1/20 10k caps you can get 1.118 grams of gold. that is absolutely ideal numbers.
more realistic it will be .8-.9 grams after digestion and refining. at ideal its 45 dollars worth of gold realistically more like 30 dollars though. god people are idiots...

 

[jason_recliner]

Willow flies! They get so thick around here in the spring they can actually block out street lights. I love them because it's time to go fishing when i see them! Around here we have Willow jackets!

There's no size reference, but it looks huge. Has anyone ever tried to mount a saddle on one of those?