eBay totally rocks! I got $530 for a buncha old equipment that we had no use for and would have thrown away. I sold a scanner, two old SCSI hard drives, an ISA SCSI controller card, a brand-new 40 GB hard drive, and a brand-new AMD Athlon 2100+ XP CPU, Heatsink, and Fan.
I got great prices for the stuff! The standout was the AMD Athlon 2100+ XP. A new ATHLON 3000 Barton costs $129. My several-years-old AMD Athlon 2100+ XP brought $152.50. My two old SCSI drives brought $128 & $113. New price? $149. These things are like 6 years old. The 40 GB IDE drive brought $39. Street price: $49
Some of this is understandable if you think about it. Here a dialogue I had with one person who asked me a question about the CPU: Him: “Are you selling anything else with this? $137 for an Athlon XP 2100+ with fan is about 3x what it is actually worth! Jags” Me: “No I am not. I know. *grins* I suppose it has something to do with the fact that they don’t make this proc anymore? Buyer probably has a system where just the proc needs replacing… Prob just a case of supply and demand.” Him: “Lucky you! Jags” The 40 GB drive’s price makes sense, but the 36.7 GB SCSI drives price seems a tad too close to new price for something so old.
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March 22nd, 2005 at 6:22 pm
Actually, drives purchased off of eBay
can be worth quite a lot! See:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1487674,00.html
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/06/07/hdd_wipe_shortcomings/
March 22nd, 2005 at 6:33 pm
I am not that much of an idiot, though I appreciate your concern. =)
I have a proggie running right now that rewrites random data to the drive 35 times and then wipes and reformats it.
March 23rd, 2005 at 10:00 am
I just bought a notebook from an eBayer that didn’t even bother formatting his HDD. I considered getting an undelete program to restore his old files, but I decided I have better things to do with my life.
March 23rd, 2005 at 3:31 pm
Have no clue what you all are talking about but sound interesting.
March 24th, 2005 at 8:29 am
Don’t have a clue either and not sure how interesting it is. Sad thing is, not long ago, Jeff wasn’t such a geek. He used to hate computers.
January 24th, 2006 at 8:31 pm
gambling supplies Heh. How it goes? Buy it all. ASAP. Last discount in your live (AAAAA!!!!!). Take a rest.
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