Goodies on ebay disguised as scrap

[thm_w]

Looks like its back to 99c.
If they are genuine Bourns trimpots, probably worth it to someone, but I can't make out the value. 105?
Through hole GSPs in there as well.

[free_electron]

i wonder who buys that 'for gold' stuff. there is no way you can recover that much gold from the scrap ...

[MathWizard]

Non-working GPUs, sell on ebay, for just about the price of the working unit. And currently, the average GPU sells for around maybe +2x it's paper value.

Broken GPU's are basically not worth fixing at this point, why bother to save 100$, for something thats probably already 2-3 yrs old

[wraper]

i wonder who buys that 'for gold' stuff. there is no way you can recover that much gold from the scrap ...

Idiots who watched gold recovery videos on YouTube too much. Even if they can recover that gold to cover the cost of the scrap, chemicals which are requires will eat up any possible profit and lot of time is needed to be spent.

[wkb]

Let alone correctly disposing of waste chemicals..   

Wilko

[tooki]

i wonder who buys that 'for gold' stuff. there is no way you can recover that much gold from the scrap ...

Idiots who watched gold recovery videos on YouTube too much. Even if they can recover that gold to cover the cost of the scrap, chemicals which are requires will eat up any possible profit and lot of time is needed to be spent.

Let alone correctly disposing of waste chemicals..   

All of what you guys said is exactly what I’ve asked myself. There’s just no way it makes sense!!

[MathWizard]

Broken GPU's sell for about 80-90% of the price of working GPU's. There must be next to no profit these days, in trying to buy broken GPU's, and fix them and sell them. The market is that screwed up. Between scalpers, miners, the supply chain shutdowns, the duopoly of Nvidia and AMD, and some big retailers, they have made GPU's largely unavailable, and unaffordable, to the average poor working person, let alone kids/teens that might want to save up for a GPU.

Wow I thought about this yesterday ?

[daqq]

Tektronix ASICs (the interesting kind for the new high end oscilloscopes), a chunky FPGA:

 https://www.ebay.com/itm/115556000019?mkevt=1&mkpid=0&emsid=e11001.m43.l2648&mkcid=7&ch=osgood&euid=549dab5b85ef4ef68d35c2bc89960095&bu=43889533236&osub=-1%7E1&crd=20221013182138&segname=11001

[thm_w]

Tektronix ASICs (the interesting kind for the new high end oscilloscopes), a chunky FPGA:

 https://www.ebay.com/itm/115556000019?mkevt=1&mkpid=0&emsid=e11001.m43.l2648&mkcid=7&ch=osgood&euid=549dab5b85ef4ef68d35c2bc89960095&bu=43889533236&osub=-1%7E1&crd=20221013182138&segname=11001

Wonder what this means: "These are rejects from the assembly line."
Were they desoldered or just not picked up by the pick and place? odd.

Who is buying this crap, worthless PCBs: https://www.ebay.com/itm/384790513173

[Ranayna]

 
Should we tell the guys that buy these PCBs for "gold" that you can get 25 100x100mm ENIG PCBs at JLCPCB for less?

[tooki]

There’s one doofus scammer on there selling 100g of assorted MLCC capacitors — ostensibly full of silver, palladium, etc. — for $100 plus shipping.

Equally sad, at least 4 people actually paid for that crap.

You can buy a 100g bar of silver bullion for $95 right now…

[PlainName]

He has 100% feedback, too.

[thm_w]

Should we tell the guys that buy these PCBs for "gold" that you can get 25 100x100mm ENIG PCBs at JLCPCB for less?

If I had zero morals: make some "antique" looking PCB layouts, and just dropship to buyers.

Now you make me think though, how much gold is would be on a 100% plated JLC board:

ENIG plating thickness of each layer should be between 0.05 to 0.23 µm for the immersion gold layer and 2.5 to 5.0 µm for the electroless nickel.

So 100x100mm x 2 of 0.05um thickness is what 0.000000001m²? 0.5mm³
That should be 10mg of gold if true (50c worth), more than I was expecting. JLC charges ~60-80c per board.

[daqq]

A bunch of what look like Teradyne tester boards, chock full of special relays: https://www.ebay.com/itm/155603446399

[dmills]

Well I think I might have a way to make e-waste into a profit centre!
Got a whole pile of BER boards from various things, who would have thought you can shift that junk on ebay and get paid for it?

Hell, play it right and you might be able to make money drop shipping random connectors and tat to these folks from a convenient disty.

I wonder how many boxes of junk that market can absorb?

[daqq]

Box full of what I believe to be thermal camera PCBs:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/364553986210?hash=item54e11c60a2:g:QtAAAOSwYTllP91-&amdata=enc%3AAQAIAAAA4C%2F74bj08QhxvbcHd8ft1TB3VUntdByaRVYCZaiQ4Xd2lRXK8UteoZpi7VQy0RN6ZLOwU9cW%2FGJMm5PHwA3Ez2ZftpvF5QvA5FtBU%2Fb8xS7Fz0rZ0ShzYp54I0SUGHFOBzx%2F9R24rHX6OTwDM38hRaH8zqDTKQ%2BeQ6dcWX1HuW7gb%2FuyasvmHXkXkuVmIYP4dJW90M3aybQLtHRSU8UiFz236NO8%2BtUyeYloI7xXIz6e2YARymdWc5y6efuI3EhXStzZ1kyqh%2FZsGExFwWypBmg0gj7zVdN0cJ0xO5VQ7EhM%7Ctkp%3ABk9SR_rvhKDwYg

[daqq]

Microwave diodes!
https://www.ebay.com/itm/235438042156?itmmeta=01HQ0W3C7BMCDFBK8T94JBB8XZ&hash=item36d1336c2c:g:8oYAAOSwF1Rl0ryW&itmprp=enc%3AAQAIAAAAwMLPBysb3zxYMJq%2B5C%2BFe3uE7UmTpKQlTThQ5k%2FCGDlf4M48tvDjgPoo2WzA1t7WcDTbITxGwBpm4FkidteQ%2FIJOB6MnG7ryp0F07mynXfdIh90OCuGcVpVla1WxLY9U47kFOEMLPwLLkNG19kK3xSwodOttUfRsvHTcheymdKIoj0RpyWqIisa789sgHDCUicgTjvhQtTZaOCvOD8XcA19h3MUcpyx%2FhZ8YLj3NuUSa7ngD4KSbME%2Bh%2BT9TBeVXUw%3D%3D%7Ctkp%3ABk9SR-DDjZy4Yw