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0 pointssambull1y ago0 comments

any I've dealt with definitely wouldn't touch the 'you need to hire professional movers costing you $10k's of dollars to get it out of the facility' stipulation - they seem to prefer the 'where's the location of the storage shed' situation.

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vel0city1y ago

There's 8,064 E5-2697v4's in this. Those go on ebay for ~$50/ea. That's $400,000 of just CPUs to sell.

If the winning bid is $100k, you spend $40k to move it out of there, another $10k warehousing it while selling everything on ebay, and you're still up $250k on the processors alone.

EvanAnderson1y ago

> That's $400,000 of just CPUs to sell.

But do you crater the market for those CPUs? What's the demand for 2016-era Xeons and how much of their price comes down to supply?

ansible1y ago

I presume no one is building new motherboards for those processors either. While there is old stock laying around, you really need to run those systems close to as-is for them to be useful.

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alchemist1e91y ago

And how much labor costs to earn that $250K? Once that is factored in, I’m guessing fair price is zero or negative.

Plus knowing a bit about warehouse costs … your $10K is a bit on the low side don’t you think?

bombcar1y ago

It's for the processors alone - a scrapping company dedicated to this stuff would be able to actualize more from other components - and they often have warehouse space available that they already own.

Let's come back and see if the auction failed; I doubt it will.

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