At the moment I'm a little short on moolah, and under my bed I have some fairly large boxes of computer bits ranging from old to archaic. Among this box is a few old 8mb SIMM sticks, old 486, AM5*86, PII, P4 and Athlon Processors. I'm sure a few of you may have heard people making keychains out of old tech bits, and I'm thinking I'd rather make money than chuck them... Questions I ask.... 1 - How much would you pay for a piece of computer / computing history on a keychain 2 - I've never used ebay before - how easy is it to sell things on there, and what would I need to take into account. Also what is the sending ethos on smallish packages? 3- Mods, if you feel this is in the wrong place and you want it shifted I apologise - it's more an enquiry as to whether it's worth me proceeding, as opposed to me currently wanting to sell bits at the moment, hence being in here...
Since it's an advice on creating and conducting the sale of bits somewhere else this is the perfect place for this thread. Ironically I'm sure there're plenty of keyring chains available on eBay for budding creators like yourself, then all you need do is drill a hole in your component and away you go. For posting you can get pretty tiny jiffy-bags which would be perfect for your purpose.
I used to do thet myself. 2 problems are. Simms/dimms are quite long, mmaybe dremel them in half. alot of chips have wholes near the edge, they wear out, cut out your own whole in at least 10mm from any edge. as for selling them. ebay might work. car boot. gum tree.
There are also collectors who want ancienct CPUs too. I've seen people pay a good price just for the CPU - working or not. Shelf sitter thing. Old 286, 386, different manufacturers and different substrate technology. Ceramic encased CPUs? /edit Selling on eBay is quite easy. My wife and I have had a store for several years. Just take a few pics, do a writeup using the free Turbolister tool from ebay. PM me for more help and questions. Probably not a good idea to 'start an eBay store' thread. john
