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    Well now I've done it. I bought pretty much the entire remaining inventory from a electronics manufacturing plant. There was a total of approxmiately 15 pallets. These pallets were made up of all devices found on circuit boards. I have literally 10's of thousands of IC's, 100's of thousands of resistors, a few thousand capacitors, hundreds of DIP switches, IC sockets, etc. Believe me when I tell you that it is no fun sorting hundreds of tubes of IC's. Especially when the plugs keep falling out and now you have a pile of IC's in the bottom of the box. So far I have found a couple of pounds of epoxy coated Tantalum caps. And wouldn't you know the first box of IC tubes I went through I found two tubes of gold capped w/gold legs ceramic IC's. Hundreds of tubes later, they were still the only ones I had. I believe it safe to say that I'll know more than I ever wanted to about these components by the time I get done selling or trying to sell them on Ebay. Can I interest anyone in a bag of 11,800 1.2 ohm, 1/4 w resistors? Got to get back to listing. Free listing event expires at midnight tonight.


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    Whats your eBay handle, if you don't mind? I'd like to have a look at what you are listing!

    Sounds like a score....hopefully you make some decent coin on it!!

    Jon.

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    Here's one of our older buyers you might be interested in. They buy excess parts.

    Right Parts Online
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    Great job!

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    A overwhelming score

    PICS PlEASE!!! Sounds awesome and just great to even sneak a peak.

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    Yes pics for sure, by just words I have no idea what you have! Awesome score tho!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Flinthills View Post
    Well now I've done it. I bought pretty much the entire remaining inventory from a electronics manufacturing plant. There was a total of approxmiately 15 pallets. These pallets were made up of all devices found on circuit boards. I have literally 10's of thousands of IC's, 100's of thousands of resistors, a few thousand capacitors, hundreds of DIP switches, IC sockets, etc. Believe me when I tell you that it is no fun sorting hundreds of tubes of IC's. Especially when the plugs keep falling out and now you have a pile of IC's in the bottom of the box. So far I have found a couple of pounds of epoxy coated Tantalum caps. And wouldn't you know the first box of IC tubes I went through I found two tubes of gold capped w/gold legs ceramic IC's. Hundreds of tubes later, they were still the only ones I had. I believe it safe to say that I'll know more than I ever wanted to about these components by the time I get done selling or trying to sell them on Ebay. Can I interest anyone in a bag of 11,800 1.2 ohm, 1/4 w resistors? Got to get back to listing. Free listing event expires at midnight tonight.
    Look on the bright side, you're now like me lol with hundreds of different components to sell. IF you need help id'ing stuff, post it here and one of us will help.
    Last edited by logansryche; 01-27-2015 at 12:01 AM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by logansryche View Post
    Look on the bright side, you're now like me lol with hundreds of different components to sell. IF you need help id'ing stuff, post it here and one of us will help.

    NOT quite his are new NOS. You selling de-soldered parts;

    I sell NOS all the time. New has two categories "new" and "new with certificate of compliance". I sell in bulk to retailers. you need two things to do this and make money. 1: buy cheap selling like this expect to get 3-8% of retail. 2: a product list with date coades. RoHS products sell better and for a premium. Also if that have the CoC the sell for a premium. If they do not its a crap shoot on what you get.

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    I buy Tantalum Capacitors and offer other services. Check out my thread for more info.

    http://www.scrapmetalforum.com/scrap...-cap-more.html

    http://recycletantalumcapacitors.com/

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    Quote Originally Posted by etack View Post
    NOT quite his are new NOS. You selling de-soldered parts; bit like a pipe dream for a crack head, not going to happen.

    I sell NOS all the time. New has two categories "new" and "new with certificate of compliance". I sell in bulk to retailers. you need two things to do this and make money. 1: buy cheap selling like this expect to get 3-8% of retail. 2: a product list with date coades. RoHS products sell better and for a premium. Also if that have the CoC the sell for a premium. If they do not its a crap shoot on what you get.

    Eric
    I take offense to the crack head reference considering I am a former addict.....LOL

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    Quote Originally Posted by mikeinreco View Post
    I take offense to the crack head reference considering I am a former addict.....LOL
    Sorry not intended to offend, but then you would know what I meen.

    Two different realities one based on earth and the other in outer space.

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    Quote Originally Posted by etack View Post
    Sorry not intended to offend, but then you would know what I meen.

    Two different realities one based on earth and the other in outer space.

    Eric
    I was just messing around as I understand exactly what your saying..........It was a bit of my dry humor..............NOS is great and I agree to sell cheap you must buy cheap.......

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    Quote Originally Posted by logansryche View Post
    Look on the bright side, you're now like me lol with hundreds of different components to sell. IF you need help id'ing stuff, post it here and one of us will help.
    I am torn as to whether I should unload all or at least most quickly or hang onto a bunch and get top dollar. I seem to find myself in this same situation fairly often. Generally, what happens is I unload the majority quickly and then complain about all the future sales I lost. A little later on, I start thinking what the heck, at minimum I tripled my investment and got the $$$ back fast to re-invest. Well, this didn't work either. I was hoping a light bulb might come on as I was typing this. Alas, my socket has shorted out. I'll see what I can do concerning photos.
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