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Unfortunately, it's all relative.
You're trading something physical of value for something which has no value at all.
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< Sigh >
Unfortunately, it's all relative.
You're trading something physical of value for something which has no value at all.
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Thing is if I tried to turn in my memory sticks for hamburgers at McDonald's I would get some funny looks.......On the other hand if I pulled out those nice crisp dollar bills they would have my hamburgers ready in a jiffyOriginally Posted by Scrappah
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Unfortunately, it's all relative.
You're trading something physical of value for something which has no value at all.
BUYING ALL COMPUTER SCRAP WORKING OR NOT
CHECK OUT MY BUYERS THREAD http://www.scrapmetalforum.com/scrap...nic-scrap.html
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It's all good. All i'm saying is that it's a good idea to keep it all in perspective and not get too caught up in the game.
The dollar is just a convenient medium of exchange. It doesn't have any value in and of itself.
Once you get that figured out you'll either jump off a tall building or laugh your ass off at the silliness of it all.
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I agree that the dollar is a joke but like I said no one in my town is handing out hamburgers for memory sticks..........The dollar will have value as least as long as I'm alive (I'm 39)........In the future they may come up with something different but for now this is what we have
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See ... it's like i was saying before ... sometimes you have to un-learn things that you were taught as truth when you were very young.
When you were little you learned that you could take a dollar and buy candy treats at the store. That piece of paper with pictures of dead people had value.
It's just a piece of paper. In fact, most of the money in circulation doesn't even exist in physical form. It's just account entries in cyberspace.
Check out the printing limitations of the Bureau of Printing & Engraving and reason it through. Draw your own conclusions.
ETA: More to respond to what you were saying though. There have been rumblings on the international market. The Chinese and Russians are unhappy with having the dollar as the international reserve currency. D.S.K. , Former head of the IMF suggested that there would soon be a need to replace the dollar as the reserve currency in favor of something else. He was promptly jammed up on phony sex assault charges on his next visit to the U.S. His successor Christine Lagarde has been suggesting the same thing in the not too distant future.
I don't know what will happen to the dollar in the process. We might have to come up with something new for ourselves as well.
Last edited by Scrappah; 07-03-2016 at 08:07 PM.
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There are no e-waste refiners in the United States that I know of. Lots of companies will buy it but none will refine.
Any legitimate company will allow you to tour their facilities in some part of they are a refiner. I don't believe the Northeast place is a refiner.
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Tonight I figured out I have 1/2 ounce of Gold in Purple CPU.... NZ$900
Could I swap all that for a hamburger?
I chuckled too.....
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Just a warning: sites like THIS ONE are basically scams ...
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Well ... you could sell the processors for money and then turn around and buy gold or silver bullion.
That way you would trading one thing of value for another thing of value.
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You could sell a processor for money and buy a hamburger at McDonald's.
Same deal .. you're exchanging one thing of value for another thing of value.
The currency is just a convenient medium of exchange ... does this make sense ?
Last edited by Scrappah; 07-04-2016 at 08:31 AM.
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BUT.....in the first scenario, the item received in the trade can have a value that appreciates or depreciates. In the second scenario, once you eat the hamburger....well, you know. Lol
Last edited by luxor62; 07-04-2016 at 12:01 PM.
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Ummm ... another use for those pieces of paper with pictures of dead people on them ?
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What's their 'scam'? I see no pictures of their refining shop or anybody who looks like they are involved in chemicals and a lot of info is 'cut n paste'.
Do they just take yah escrap and not get back to you?
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They are just a middleman. They try to portray themselves as something bigger. Ask them for a tour of their smelting and refining.
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Remember when currency said "silver certificate"? When you could go to the bank and trade that piece of paper for silver coins? Me neither.. I wish, though
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Well, getting back on topic... I think the lowest i've seen memory is in the $11 range. Currently $14.50 on the Buyers thread. My guess is that its a bit inflated if the buyer is hoping to obtain good, usable memory on occasion within some loads. In other words, old memory (such as 256-512mb) that has no resale value may actually only be worth $13-$14 per pound, but the buyer pays more in hopes of finding nice sticks of DDR2 and 3 at 2gb and up. At least thats my theory....i dont believe that they wholesale large batches of memory to the refinery without sorting it. If true (buyers please chime in), then the percentages would be skewed because of this alternative motive for determining a price. In the case of CPU's, the risk of damage is much greater, especially with pins, that getting more-than-scrap value would be difficult. Your thoughts????
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You hit the nail right on the head when it comes to memory. Most buyers are buying it to sort in the hopes of getting the good stuff for resale. Memory is not a good choice to use for the OP original intentions. IMHO
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