[cctalk] People suck++

Not worth it? People dig huge holes in mountains using expensive machinery in the middle of nowhere to find a few grams of gold per ton of dirt/stone and still make money. There is plenty of gold and copper in old machines to make it worth the effort, the older and more high tech the better. If you get bored someday go check out http://www.scrapmetalforum.com/forum.php they even have a couple people who actually do the refining on there (and there is a whole other forum out there just for do it yourself gold recovery). Scappers want to maximize their return, and they pretty much have to pay for their scrap these days since everyone is out looking (growth industry since gold skyrocketed). There are a ton of clueless people on ebay buying scrap processors and other ewaste for more then it is worth that doesn't help things. People have an inflated idea of how much gold is in computer parts and don't understand you cannot extract all of it (and extraction itself has costs). I have passed on deals because shipping is just too expensive for my hobby. Some of that stuff finds a new home elsewhere or gets recycled into iphones. You can complain that rare machines get scrapped, but if nobody wants to pay over scrap for them what else do you think will happen to them? Scrappers would love to get 3x their scrap value or more for an item they don't have to rip apart. -----Original Message----- From: Cory Smelosky Sent: Friday, June 14, 2013 12:42 PM To: Dave McGuire Cc: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts Subject: Re: [cctalk] People suck++ On Fri, 14 Jun 2013, Dave McGuire wrote: It's barely even worth it. You won't get much back, right? I don't recall most systems having high concentrations of gold... -- -- Cory Smelosky http://gewt.net Personal stuff http://gimme-sympathy.org Projects