Selling things with lots of gold in them... (natsemi)

[Jules Richardson]

Teo Zenios wrote:
>> That aside i'm surprised that noone is stepping in with good ideas to
>> find good homes for unwanted gear on this list.
> 
> There are not that many people who would pay to ship mainframes or minis
> (which would have the most gold scrap value) across the country in one piece
> (and most would be on this list). 

On top of that, most computer recyclers aren't interested in separating 
something potentially useful from something that's obvious scrap - at least 
none of the ones I've found in the UK. Even if they can potentially make more 
money out of it that way, it seems not worth their time to go outside regular 
channels (I get the impression that US places are a lot better for this)


It's why I happened to mention what it was that I had; I was hoping there'd be 
a flurry of interest from list members! Otherwise it'll have to be off to ebay 
with it (and the VCM, but I expect that 90% of people who look at that also 
read this list) and fingers crossed that there's enough interest from 
collectors there :-(

> a decent amount of gold in them. Coin collectors have the same problem when
> the gold,silver, nickel, and copper is worth more then the collector value
> of the coin so they all get melted down.

Presumably there's a healthy collector market there though; I mean it's a lot 
easier to ship a coin to someone that it is a computer - so providing that 
people interested in that hobby are well connected there's probably less of a 
problem there.

cheers

Jules