vegaswinner said:
considering these are the ONLY lots of alpha cpu's I have listed I would be interested to see the listing where I claim they contain a gram of gold??? :roll:
glorycloud said:
The first few lots of Alpha cpus he listed he was claiming that they
all had a gram of gold in each one. :lol:
Glorycloud was talking about the first few auctions, which could also mean that they are ended, which would also make it difficult to find any information on your previous auctions, if you were the one who posted them. He wasn't talking about your current auctions.
Not sure the clarification even matters. This is going to be the hardest sell for you, on this forum. The reason being is that most of the people who process electronics, obtain them at prices they can process, and still make money on them. If you are posting in this forum to sell the CPU's as scrap, you would have to be selling them for a lot less than what you are asking. I'm not saying that you shouldn't get the very most you can for anything you sell, that's just plain business. But posting them here to sell as scrap might not sit well with some people. They would feel, and maybe rightfully so, that you are trying to rip people off. You see, converted from British Pounds, to American Dollars would make them just over $242.
For example, if I were to purchase these, and use my very best process of recovery and refining I MIGHT be able to recover .4g each. Multiply that by 10 and you have 4g. If I sold what I was able to extract from these CPU's, and I sold at the highest gold has been this week which is $53.05, I may make 212.20. Now, if I took the amount I could make, $212.20 then subtract the cost of the CPU's, $242, I would be negative -$29.80. That's before I figure in the cost of electricity, chemicals, time/effort/energy/time, etc etc etc...
All this was quick and dirty figuring, there is also the 23.95 pounds you are charging for shipping, which equates to $38.73 American, I didn't calculate that in the prior figure, if I were to then I would be in the hole -$68.53.
If you don't already understand the point, I hope this makes it crystal clear. Your CPU's are worth far more if you sell them in groups of 1 or 2 to collectors. But they are not worth anywhere close to what you are asking, for scrap.
While these are similar in size to a Pentium Pro, there is a good portion of a Pentium pro that has double the pins of any other CPU. The Pentium Pro is a unique design, never seen before nor sense. You really cannot compare the Alpha CPU's to a Pentium Pro.
ALSO, these were not made to military spec, to say so is not misleading but an outright lie. There are 6 different grades of mil-spec, not only did you outright lie about these being mil-spec, but you didn't even have the decency to back up your lie with information on what mil-spec they actually are. I would wager you pulled these off Compaq server boards, at the time, Compaq used more of these CPU's than any other computer manufacturer.
You can understand I'm sure, why this post would rub some people the wrong way. To many of us, this looks like just another eBayer trying to make something sound super amazing when it's not anywhere close. Oh yeah, by the way, these are not the Grand Daddies of gold recovery. lb per lb the double gold cap Pentiums will bear more than these CPU's, and you can buy them around $100 USD per lb, all day long and if you are a smart and savvy shopper, you can get them for 10-20 USD per lb, and if you are willing to put in the time and labor, you can get as many of the old Pentiums as you want, for free.
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Scott
