8 Nov
2018
8 Nov
'18
9:46 a.m.
My recycler in Chicago will hunt some down for me. Tested and working, they
will be about $25 each. Sound reasonable? May have slight cosmetic defects
due to coming from recycler, bit I will test all the functions. I knew there
must be some reason I saved all those old floppies!
Do you guys want PCI cards too? Same price?
AGP video cards?
Cindy Croxton
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8 Nov
8 Nov
10:48 a.m.
The problem with trying to get these any cheaper is that the gold value, by
the pound, exceeds what I think an untested card should go for. They want to
charge me $7-10 PER CARD, and that is untested. Then I have to pay shipping,
and labor to get them tested. Sorry if this seems unreasonable to you guys.
Cindy
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Subject: ISA sound and video cards, and PCI? AGP?
My recycler in Chicago will hunt some down for me. Tested and working, they
will be about $25 each. Sound reasonable? May have slight cosmetic defects
due to coming from recycler, bit I will test all the functions. I knew there
must be some reason I saved all those old floppies!
Do you guys want PCI cards too? Same price?
AGP video cards?
Cindy Croxton
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10:59 a.m.
On Thu, 8 Nov 2018, Electronics Plus via cctalk wrote:
The problem with trying to get these any cheaper is
that the gold value, by
the pound, exceeds what I think an untested card should go for. They want to
charge me $7-10 PER CARD, and that is untested. Then I have to pay shipping,
and labor to get them tested. Sorry if this seems unreasonable to you guys.
From my standpoint, $25 for a tested card is fair. That being said, I
think anyone
under the illusion that there's a worthwhile amount of gold
in a Sound Blaster has been spending too much time huffing mercury fumes.
:)
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11:55 a.m.
$7-10 to sort out and carefully handle (vs usual strip for gold recovery),
seems pretty reasonable to me. I'd expect the cost has more to do with
labor than gold being recovered.
Pat
On Thu, Nov 8, 2018 at 2:17 PM William Donzelli via cctalk <
cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
That being
said, I
think anyone under the illusion that there's a worthwhile amount of gold
in a Sound Blaster has been spending too much time huffing mercury fumes.
That, or they might actually understand how the scrap industry works.
--
Will
12:15 p.m.
$7-10 to sort out and carefully handle (vs usual strip
for gold recovery),
seems pretty reasonable to me. I'd expect the cost has more to do with
labor than gold being recovered.
Yes, probably half of the asking price is the metal, the rest is
labor, shipping and handling, and just a plain old premium for the
scrapper to do something different.
Of the metal value, it is mostly gold, but also palladium, platinum,
rhodium, silver, tantalum, and copper. When the boards are melted into
the big ingots, they tend to be mostly copper - and that is certainly
worth money.
Also, just "being a board" has value. Scrappers sometimes need to make
quotas or limits with the refineries in order to get good refining
rates.
I realize none of this will sink in.
--
Will
1:14 p.m.
Ive been kinda debating setting up a web store and stockpiling the nicer
pci, isa and agp cards that would be otherwise scrapped out at the shop. If
you are in need of a card, let me know and i can set you up with a deal,
tested worKing.
just send me an email with what you need and i will let you know whats in
stock. Idea is to catch the good cards before they end up in the barrel.
Even still ive had about 50/50 luck with getting stuff to work once its out
there.
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On Thu, Nov 8, 2018 at 3:15 PM William Donzelli via cctalk <
cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
$7-10 to sort
out and carefully handle (vs usual strip for gold
recovery),
seems pretty reasonable to me. I'd expect the
cost has more to do with
labor than gold being recovered.
Yes, probably half of the asking price is the metal, the rest is
labor, shipping and handling, and just a plain old premium for the
scrapper to do something different.
Of the metal value, it is mostly gold, but also palladium, platinum,
rhodium, silver, tantalum, and copper. When the boards are melted into
the big ingots, they tend to be mostly copper - and that is certainly
worth money.
Also, just "being a board" has value. Scrappers sometimes need to make
quotas or limits with the refineries in order to get good refining
rates.
I realize none of this will sink in.
--
Will
9 Nov
9 Nov
12:08 p.m.
On 11/8/18 12:48 PM, Electronics Plus via cctalk wrote:
The problem with trying to get these any cheaper is
that the gold value, by
the pound, exceeds what I think an untested card should go for. They want to
charge me $7-10 PER CARD, and that is untested. Then I have to pay shipping,
and labor to get them tested. Sorry if this seems unreasonable to you guys.
That's interesting, my local recycler sells boards to me at $1-$3/lb
depending on some notion of scrap metal content, so I'm usually looking at
around $2 per card (untested). I wonder if it's one of those things where
there's a huge amount of regional variation?
cheers
Jules
12:11 p.m.
That's interesting, my local recycler sells boards
to me at $1-$3/lb
depending on some notion of scrap metal content, so I'm usually looking at
around $2 per card (untested). I wonder if it's one of those things where
there's a huge amount of regional variation?
Age of the boards, probably.
--
Will
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