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How to sell a fairly huge amount of high performance ADC's?
james_s:
I had a look at the datasheet, seems like those would be great for a DSO. Maybe somebody can start an open source DSO project built around them? A supply of normally expensive parts at a bargain basement price can make a project like that feasible.
Black Phoenix:
Put them on eBay and maybe you will be surprised.
Some years ago I got some boxes with Sony DDS-4 tapes, about 250 units at total from a warehouse cleanup owned by a friend.
After had listed on eBay, a Singapore company contacted me and bought the full stock for around 5000USD.
I was expecting to see a PayPal Chargeback (that I would lose since it's know that eBay mostly sides with the buyer) so I kept the money in the account for some months. But in reality nope.
So do the same and who knows.
Ranayna:
--- Quote from: Black Phoenix on September 09, 2022, 04:06:10 am ---After had listed on eBay, a Singapore company contacted me and bought the full stock for around 5000USD.
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Oh wow... I think i must rummage through the storage rooms at my workplace. I think there should be a couple of boxes of DDS4 tapes lying around in some dark corner. :-+
Black Phoenix:
--- Quote from: Ranayna on September 09, 2022, 02:17:53 pm ---
--- Quote from: Black Phoenix on September 09, 2022, 04:06:10 am ---After had listed on eBay, a Singapore company contacted me and bought the full stock for around 5000USD.
--- End quote ---
Oh wow... I think i must rummage through the storage rooms at my workplace. I think there should be a couple of boxes of DDS4 tapes lying around in some dark corner. :-+
--- End quote ---
This was way back in 2010 by the way. If a company have an old system of tapes and don't want to update to newer like LTOs it's fairly common to pay for old stuff. In this case they mostly were set for 5 years +/-.
Edit: just done a search and new tapes being sold on eBay go around $12 to $20/unit, so let's say $15 X 250 = $3,750 plus handling and shipping.
So yeah not a bad deal if you are able to get them NOS for nothing.
læven:
So, just for completeness(because who doesn't like when a thread has a resolution):
I got to sell off one tray off these, I sent the buyer a few samples so that they could test and verify that they worked. Then sent the remaining tray over to them.
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