http://refinementofpreciousmetals.com/Rev_0.7.1.pdf
Not to aggravate the Marvin people. This came up in a Google search for something else. It was sorta interesting.
Poor CPUs... 🙁
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Stiletto
wrote:http://refinementofpreciousmetals.com/Rev_0.7.1.pdf
Not to aggravate the Marvin people. This came up in a Google search for something else. It was sorta interesting.
Poor CPUs... 🙁
It's like I always said, the amount of gold in them is far too low to make it worth extracting unless you're doing 10's of thousands at a time and can get the CPU's cheaply enough. Even if they were sold for only their value as a used CPU without the gold taken into consideration, you still couldn't buy them cheaply enough at retail with shipping to make it pay. A business that processes computers and other electronic waste by the ton might be able to make something off of it, but nobody else would.
These people at start used to get those cpus at prices of 1$ per kg. No wonder it bloomed so much.
Not its crowded and less worthy to do because of high cost and less pay.
Its pretty much worthless investment if you dont have large quantities for cheap, as Sliderider said.
EAD/ITAD companies recover some revenue this way. However: they get large organizations to pay them for the service of reselling / scrapping / recycling obsolete equipment. That is how most volume in e-waste is treated in developed countries nowadays. The Craigslist and other scavengers are just parasites who work around the margins IMO. There should be laws / regulations to make that illegal IMO.
