• Galaxy@lemm.ee
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    6 months ago

    About $15 per CPU on ebay or so, so about $121,000 USD for the CPU’s alone

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      6 months ago

      Have fun selling 8000 individual CPUs on eBay, so handling, storage, shipping… and even if that is for free it would only be 1/4 of what they paid. Not too mention that flooding the marked will mean the pieces goes down.

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      6 months ago

      13% eBay fees, around $5 to pack and ship it, not including your time. Around $8 net per chip, so, $60k less returns/losses, then taxes on that. It might be worth it for one of those large liquidation companies, but they usually charge companies to recycle their equipment or pay very little at auctions.