The "it's going to scrap in 0.5sec if no one buys/claims it" thing is a well known tactic used to prey on the emotions of people who have attachment to this stuff

maxtherabbit wrote on 2025-07-25, 15:45:

The "it's going to scrap in 0.5sec if no one buys/claims it" thing is a well known tactic used to prey on the emotions of people who have attachment to this stuff

Well it also includes when this usually happens, I have a whole room of stuff and you have to take it all of it in 0.5sec, because I can't keep it or don't have the room. That takes commitment and possibly money in the reaction. So it's not an easy decision even if it is the more accurately day or two before it was to be scrapped. That's why people say whoa, slow down, because you gotta communicate with the guy first somehow and get his attention. The person doing this has much calmer people when he posts one item to give away, and posts a picture, and at least suggests a easier way to obtain the item to the wide audience. That's why the other times, it went better. It's hard to comprehend the decision when it's a bigger, faster decision with little information to go on.

maxtherabbit wrote on 2025-07-25, 15:45:

The "it's going to scrap in 0.5sec if no one buys/claims it" thing is a well known tactic used to prey on the emotions of people who have attachment to this stuff

I've dealt with a lot of top collectors. Some I've become friends with. You encounter all sorts of personalities and unique situations that people are in. I find if you just contact them privately you get the bigger picture of what the terms are and what's going on. Many times I see big lots that need to be moved fast. Nothing shady at all. This is where good deals can be made actually. Time works in favor for the buyer/collector. Obviously, you have to be careful, so you ask lots of questions.

old school gamer man wrote on 2025-07-25, 15:01:

God lord, I normally give away high end hardware on 2 other sites I'm a member of and never got this much drama. Its not worth my time to sell or deal with scammers the plague online marketplaces and its not really worth the money to go though everything it takes to sell the hardware. I would need to take a lot of good photos of everything, test every last bit, deal with 100s of tire kickers a week, deal with scammers who send me back the parts broken if not a box of rocks or just file charge backs and so on. I was wanting give some of the stuff away here in addition to the other sites I'm a member of but everyone is calling me a troll or scammer. If you guys wanted photos all you had to do was ask or message me for photos. If anyone wanted the parts all they had to do was reach out and message me too. Going right to he is a troll/scammer does not make me want to give any of the parts away here and TBH if someone reached out and said they needed a extra day or two I could have held the parts for a wile.

And no there is not really and value here other then the mars cards I'm keeping and maybe 50$ a pop the dfi boards at the most. the idea that this stuff is worth 10000+ is nuts. I had a working 100SB-4440 and the boxed power VR card listed on a few sites for over a year at 25$ and not had a single bite on it.... and I'm not dealing with shipping anything or listing it on eBay as those sites are full of scammers. The DFI boards are the only thing here I'm giving away with any valve and at best $50 a board before shipping and fees, finding someone to buy the ALR stuff is not happening, I had a lot of ppro and ALR stuff over the years and listed them every ware even eBay and they sat for years even at rock bottom prices only to be bought by people looking to scrap them, a quick look up on ebay shows most ALR stuff has been listed for years, most DFI boards only for for 50 to 100$ at the very most. After shipping and fees, dealing with any scammers, waiting on PayPal to release the funds witch takes 6 months... yeah I'm not bothering with that for at best 10$ a item in my pocket when I could just give them away, trash them and be done with it or get a few 100$ from taking it to the local scrap yard with the rest of the scrap from renovating my house and doing or other homes. I help fix up and flip homes so I'm at the yard a lot taking in old wire and aluminum siding and windows frames so I'm taking loads to the yard a lot and was going to toss this stuff on with it if no one wanted it.

Can you post some pictures then? Like, just a few clear photos of the stuff all together in one location, with some of what you listed clearly visible (dual 9800 prototypes, black Voodoo 3, Obsidian cards, DFI, ASUS and Abit boards, etc).

Some of what you're saying about stuff sitting and not selling for $25 just seems to not line up with reality. High end DFI boards pretty much universally sell for $200-$400 on ebay, depending on condition and model. A used Asus X48 Rampage Extreme (with box) recently sold for nearly $1000 US on ebay. The Abit IX48 Max is an apparently unreleased motherboard that would probably be worth as much as the Rampage Extreme to an Abit collector. Loose PowerVR cards sell for $250+ on ebay very easily, so a boxed one would be worth even more than that.

Obsidian 100SB-4440 cards are nearly impossible to find these days and Quantum3D stuff has been stupidly valuable for 10+ years. I don't know what these ended up selling for, but this is one of the very few posts I have found for any being for sale in recent years, and those were listed at $3k each in working condition (doubt they sold for that, but I don't know). Even broken they are valuable.

Then you casually list prototype cards that are likely worth many hundreds of dollars if not more to collectors.

I mean, you have to acknowledge that it seems a little fishy in light of all that, right? Especially since you just made your account here like a month ago?

I'm just trying to do my part to look out for the community. I have no idea what the motivation would be for someone to be untruthful about giving away stuff like this, but some pictures would help a lot, preferably with a time stamp (like, write vogons and the date on a piece of paper and put it with the stuff).

Shponglefan wrote on 2025-07-25, 15:37:

A lot of people in this site are into hardware repair and preservation. When you list a bunch of hardware including some rare and desirable items for short-notice pickup with the threat of it going to scrap, I'm not surprised it rubs people here the wrong way.

It's the antithesis of the spirit of why a lot of folks are in this hobby.

maxtherabbit wrote on 2025-07-25, 15:45:

The "it's going to scrap in 0.5sec if no one buys/claims it" thing is a well known tactic used to prey on the emotions of people who have attachment to this stuff

This is exactly the issue. I would have gone straight to PMs to try to work something out myself if not for the huge red flag of saying it's going to get scrapped. I would love to give old school gamer the benefit of the doubt and would be happy to see any vogons user get this stuff, but this kind of wording is precisely Scam\Troll Tactics 101 in the 21st century. As is saying you found the stuff hidden in a wall, and saying that another user (kahenraz) not being able to message you is a sign that THEY are trouble, then suddenly PMs are enabled again.

Looks like my message is getting buried with this new drama, so reminder that my giveaway post Re: Old hardware giveaway thread. from July 17 is still active for anyone in the Ottawa area.

What a... This thread is about giveaways and people, who have a genuine desire to give something away for free in most cases take care to post at least one picture of the gift. But "oldskool players" don't. I hope all this virtual drama is over with the deadline for scrapping his ultra-rare virtual hardware 😀

StriderTR wrote on 2025-07-25, 15:17:

WHY oh WHY can't I live in Ohio. 🤣

I would happily swing by and take it all if it wasn't over 500 miles away. Sad to see it all go to scrap. Oh well.

me who lives at over 6000 retarded units: bruh...

old school gamer man wrote on 2025-07-23, 16:19:

Me and the wife have been renovating the house and I found anther hallowed out wall cubbie full of old parts I sealed over years […]
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Me and the wife have been renovating the house and I found anther hallowed out wall cubbie full of old parts I sealed over years ago and forgot about. it's mostly lanparty boards, and older high end dual GPU's like the Asus mars (keeping) and dual 6800, a few dual GPU AGP cards that IDK what they are and and what not, but also some ALR stuff and a some quantum3d and ppro server stuff.

No shipping, must pick up, first come first serve, must take it all or nothing, all parts will be sent off to scrap this friday if no one shows up, parts are in SE ohio.

Here is a short list of some of the parts however there is more.

ALR evo motherboard with ram and cpu cards.
4 ppo over drive CPU's.
2 dual socket 8 to slot one slockets
2 DFI LanParty UT NF4 Ultra-Ds
DFI LANPARTY NFII Ultra B
DFI LanParty PRO 875
DFI LANParty LT X48-T2R
2 DFI LANParty UT X48-T3R
DFI LANPARTY UT P45-T3RS
Abit ix48-max
Asus x48 rampage extreme
Asus ALI chipset atx socket 7 board.
1 Obsidian Pro 100DB, no sli cable
3 Obsidian 100SB-4440, 2 are tagged as not working.
asus 6800 dual gpu card.
a hand full of dual gpu AGP cards idk what they are but google says they are 9800 PRO MAXX but they look more like prototypes with all the reworked traces and the heat sinks are glued so I can't removed them and found out what they are, the PCB are also a red and not orange like the photos online. one of the cards is different and has a black PCB, google brings up nothing on it.
tnt 2 ultra.
AGP voodoo 3000 its dead. But it has a black PCB so that's cool.
a few nec pcx PowerVR video cards one has the box.

There is a good chunk of 775 boards and AGP GPUs in the lot too but nothing out of the ordinary.

how the f...you forget about high end hardware like that?