I usually dont pay $20+ for ram but this lot caught my eye

I am getting ready to launch an auction on Sunday for 20 pounds of server RAM that works. All one gig sticks of DDR RAM. I will be starting it at around $20 a pound scrap value. Hope to get a bunch more. If the sale does not go through I will ship it off to my ewaste buyer.

Not an advert to sell as I am not posting a link to the sale. Just sharing that I am going to try my first RAM sale on E-bay.

Anything like these parrot?
Infineon 1GB PC3200R DDR-400MHz ECC reg CL3 Memory HYS72D128300GBR-5-B | eBay
As you can see ive sold 235 of these bad boys for $4 each over the past few months.
OR these
Infineon 1GB PC3200R DDR-400MHz ECC reg CL3 Memory HYS72D128300HBR-5-B | eBay
Sold 59 of them.

I paid 400 for like 600 total sticks. Ive tripled my money so far and still have more to sell. Granted its been months of selling them. But the auction just renews every 30 days. Some weeks I sell 5 sticks others I sell 20.

Originally Posted by jghilino

I have 5 ram listings on ebay right now. Sold same amount within the last month. Ecc ram is harder to sell and wont bring as much as desktop ram, but it still sells alot higher than scrap.

how much do you sell your 1gb ecc sticks for?

Well, Here it is if you want to watch it.

Large 18 Pound Server RAM DDR PC2700 Lot 463 sticks | eBay

Originally Posted by ozzy214

Now what I want to know is how much you make after fees and shipping???

Ill tell you. If I sell it for $4 i make th buyer pay the shipping of $2 for first stick and $1 for each additional stick. So lets say someone buys 4 sticks on my ebay auction.
cost to post 30 day auction is $.50
4 sticks is $16 plus $5 for shipping and handling. Total $21
Fees for paypal and ebay are ruffly 15% so that would be $3.15
Envelope and antistatic bag cost me $.25 total.
Paper and ink to print label ill estimate at $.10
Actual shipping cost is $1.84

So total cost of the sale to me is $5.84
Total profit from sale to me is $15.16 or ruffly $3.29 a stick. Thats way better than scrap value.
Now this is for server stick. I sell 1gb desktop sticks for between $6 and $8 each. But I also pay $2 each for good ones if you want to send them to me and not ebay them yourself. Granted it takes time to test them out and make sure they are working before putting them up on ebay. But I just do that while im sitting here reading the forums. I can test about 4 sticks a minute with my current set up.

Originally Posted by jghilino

On a $100 sale of cpus/ram, i will make around $80 after the costs are factored in other than what i paid for it. So if i pay $50 for an item and resell it for $200 i would make a $110 profit or over 300%.

Correct me if im wrong but that would be a 220% profit