gold plating on smart/sim cards

**mseashell** · 01-17-2014, 05:28 PM

Does anyone know about the plating on sim cards from cell phones, and smart cards from satilite boxes? Was wondering about how thick the. Plating was and if it better to sell to someone or have them refined. And as far as the smart cards from sat boxes, do the excces card need to be trimmed off or just leave the entire card intact. I guess I'm asking is there anything inside the card or just the small gold plated surface that u can see.
Thanx once again in advance for all the answers. I enjoy hearing responses from all the smart ppl on here, I have learned a lot.
And I want to appolize in advance if there is a thread about this and I have missed it. Maybe someone can help me out on where to look
Thanks again

**jord0690** · 01-17-2014, 06:35 PM

Originally Posted by mseashell

Does anyone know about the plating on sim cards from cell phones, and smart cards from satilite boxes? Was wondering about how thick the. Plating was and if it better to sell to someone or have them refined. And as far as the smart cards from sat boxes, do the excces card need to be trimmed off or just leave the entire card intact. I guess I'm asking is there anything inside the card or just the small gold plated surface that u can see.
Thanx once again in advance for all the answers. I enjoy hearing responses from all the smart ppl on here, I have learned a lot.
And I want to appolize in advance if there is a thread about this and I have missed it. Maybe someone can help me out on where to look
Thanks again

I believe we have a buyer for the whole sat card on the forum. Pays a buck a piece I believe. Dont cut them up. He buys for resale.

**mseashell** · 01-17-2014, 08:35 PM

Hopefully someone will know who or that buyer will chime in later. Thanks Jord.

**MetalEarthRecycling** · 01-17-2014, 08:50 PM

Jhiligho buys them. I cant spell his handle. He is in the buyers section under Kansas.

**jord0690** · 01-17-2014, 09:36 PM

Originally Posted by MetalEarthRecycling

Jhiligho buys them. I cant spell his handle. He is in the buyers section under Kansas.

There ya go! I knew someone knew ahah

**stillwaterrecycling** · 01-17-2014, 10:31 PM

Search is awesome fourm. Just read a post about them. I think it's not worth anything besides sellin whole
Aaron swr

**MetalEarthRecycling** · 01-17-2014, 10:50 PM

Actually the gold plated squares are worth money on their own. I read on here it takes around 1000 of them to make a pound, and have been known to sale for a decent amount. Their is more Info on them in the archives. Yields too.

**mseashell** · 01-17-2014, 11:11 PM

Originally Posted by MetalEarthRecycling

Jhiligho buys them. I cant spell his handle. He is in the buyers section under Kansas.

I just emailed and he responded back saying he does not buy them. They are owned by the company and he can't resell them

**jord0690** · 01-17-2014, 11:13 PM

Originally Posted by mseashell

Originally Posted by MetalEarthRecycling

Jhiligho buys them. I cant spell his handle. He is in the buyers section under Kansas.

I just emailed and he responded back saying he does not buy them. They are owned by the company and he can't resell them

Well thats new. Just the other day he posted about buying them. I think it was the other day... could be wrong but I know he did at one time. Hope he didnt buy a bunch then find out he couldnt sell em!

**mseashell** · 01-17-2014, 11:17 PM

Ill prob hang on to them for a while unless something comes up. I will prob send them to my refiner to refine for me if nothing else. I have a nice little assay of stuff to send. a little over a pound of gold plated pins, about 5 lbs of different connectors, some gold fingers, a few small pieces of boards completly gold plated, and some smart and sim cards

**Mechanic688** · 01-17-2014, 11:51 PM

The only thing of value for refining is the gold square on the sat. card. People were buying the whole card to hijack the machines and open up the sat. world and Direct TV has the auctions booted off of Ebay now.

**jghilino** · 01-18-2014, 04:30 PM

sim cards yes, access cards no, they are property of the company on the card so cant resell them publically, i have about 200 of them in stock

also have some dealer cards

**URBANERECYCLING** · 01-18-2014, 06:17 PM

what's the difference between selling them publically and privately?

**MattInTheHat** · 01-18-2014, 06:21 PM

Originally Posted by URBANERECYCLING

what's the difference between selling them publically and privately?

the likelihood of getting caught?

**jghilino** · 01-18-2014, 07:14 PM

can always cut the gold chips out of them and sell them as sims, id would take them with regular sims like that

**mseashell** · 01-18-2014, 07:18 PM

Originally Posted by jghilino

can always cut the gold chips out of them and sell them as sims, id would take them with regular sims like that

So what is the price u would pay for these gold chips out of the program cards and for the sim cards

**NHscrapman** · 01-18-2014, 07:37 PM

Originally Posted by jghilino

sim cards yes, access cards no, they are property of the company on the card so cant resell them publically, i have about 200 of them in stock

also have some dealer cards

are the all gold cards dealer cards?

**jghilino** · 01-18-2014, 07:50 PM

the access cards i have that are dealer cards say dealer card on them, they basically are for demo units at the store that unlock all of the channels, from what ive read the gold yield on sim cards is about 1 gram pound so thats only about $40 worth of gold per pound

**happyscraper** · 01-20-2014, 01:21 AM

Originally Posted by mseashell

Does anyone know about the plating on sim cards from cell phones, and smart cards from satilite boxes? Was wondering about how thick the. Plating was and if it better to sell to someone or have them refined. And as far as the smart cards from sat boxes, do the excces card need to be trimmed off or just leave the entire card intact. I guess I'm asking is there anything inside the card or just the small gold plated surface that u can see.
Thanx once again in advance for all the answers. I enjoy hearing responses from all the smart ppl on here, I have learned a lot.
And I want to appolize in advance if there is a thread about this and I have missed it. Maybe someone can help me out on where to look
Thanks again

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