Thanks folks, very nice thread for a newbie.
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Thanks folks, very nice thread for a newbie.
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Great thread! Thanks everyone! Just a quick follow up...if they aren't gold and going into my gold connector bucket, what are they? I have almost a half a bucket of non-gold plated ends. Thanks!
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It is an excellent thread. Glad I found it when I did. Just finished getting a shipment together an have about 3 or 4lbs of the silly things, an it was all stuff off the cables I get from my thrift store. You can also find them on lots of lower grade boards, telephone jack inputs. Think your typical house phone, etc.
Like another said on the first page..a great way to top off your load.
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Their probably brass,Originally Posted by Mudlucky
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Hi, great info, thanks.
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I Agree! Tons of great info. This would make a perfect sticky.
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Thanks for the nice well made post, it should have a sticky.Hello all, I searched for what is considered gold connectors but wasn't completely certain. If anyone could let me know which of these qualifies, it would be awesome. Thanks.
#6 came from a CRT cord. And I would be cutting off the ribbon if each of those are considered gold connectors.
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Forgot One more item, SATA connectors, Break them open most are gold plated but some are tin,
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Fantastic thread! I was wondering exactly which connectors had what in them.
I was thinking to save up all the connectors to sell in batches to people as 'electronics parts', but the gold plated scrap might be better.
This might be a silly question to some, but how can you tell tiny pieces of brass from gold? If some small part/pin is yellow and shiny, it could be either?
PS - let me add my vote to the people who think this would make a good sticky...
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lare 12789, 10 pure gold in them, or are the scrap yards paying good money for the gold plating?
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how much does the most expensive one out of those photos get at the scrap yard?
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I don't let the yard have my connectors. I save'm for when I ship. Yard wouldn't give me diddly for them.
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Just found this old thread. I have not yet bothered with gold connectors. I have sent in some ribbon cables with them and cat5 too.
I have a mess of cables that have just been piling up and I need to do something with them soon. Sucks that the price is so low on these but I'm pretty sure my yard would probably dock me for leaving them on so they might as well come off. I thought this was a good old post and wanted to bring it back from the dead.
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There's a pretty thin margin with the ribbon cables and connector ends. It all depends on what your shipping costs are per pound.
ie: Lets say shipping was .65 per pound and a buyer was paying .60 per pound for connector ends. You would be losing .05 per pound.
On the other hand: Ribbon wire with ends might pay a little more per pound so you would break even or maybe even make a little profit.
It all depends on the numbers. They change every month or so. Sometimes it's worth doing, and other times it isn't profitable.
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They have mostly been load toppers for me. Only other time I have sent low pay stuff like that was in a pallet load or in person.
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It's kool , i was just reminding everyone that it's a numbers game. Folks think .... GOLD connector ends. It has to be worthwhile cause it's GOLD. Not necessarily so. It all depends on your situation, your operating costs, and the value of your time. That's different for everybody.
It's just my thing, but when i'm shipping i try to focus more on shipping the things that give me the most bang for the buck and the best return for the time invested.
For example: Let's say shipping is .60 USD per pound.
You can ship gold memory. Let's say that pays 14.25 USD/pound. After shipping, you've got a net profit of 13.65 per pound.
You can ship connector ends. Let's say they pay .60 per pound. After shipping you get 0.00 per pound.
13.65 per pound is more interesting to me. Even if i could somehow net a dollar per pound profit on the connector ends i'm not so sure that it would be worth the time invested.
See what i'm saying ? You can always make more money but you can't make more time.
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