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author: Falcon69
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 04, 2017, 07:13:17 pm
content: Delete this thread please.Don't buy Surplus Junk. It's not resell-able, except to another Sucker!

author: Falcon69
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 10, 2017, 12:31:34 am
content: Deleted

author: wraper
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: May 10, 2017, 12:45:24 am
content: QuoteSomeone would need to be crazy to buy reels of surplus at such price. And I buy new reels of 1% vishay SMD resistors for $4-5 at TMELink

author: Falcon69
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 10, 2017, 01:09:14 am
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author: wraper
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: May 10, 2017, 11:39:07 am
content: Quote from: Falcon69 on May 10, 2017, 01:09:14 amToo optimistic. Mouser prices on passives are highly inflated (like 10 times for a reel of resistors). You can sell one offs / cut tape at half of the mouser retail price but not reels. Especially resistors, only rare will buy those, with most likely expired shelve life (soldering issues), when they go for a fraction of that at a reasonably reputable distributor.

author: Asmyldof
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: May 10, 2017, 03:39:37 pm
content: And a lot of the same goes for the capacitors as far as I have been able to tell in the few minutes I looked. Those prices aren't enticing at all for someone able to order whole reels directly from distributors and/or manufacturer.Apart from which you'd be a charlatan if you'd sell no longer active Aluminium Electrolytics to people expecting them to be on-spec, since they'd probably been in stock and un-biased long enough to fully invalidate any actual spec.

author: Falcon69
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 10, 2017, 04:15:16 pm
content: Deleted

author: james_s
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 10, 2017, 05:04:53 pm
content: Just because it's not worth a fortune doesn't mean it's worthless crap. Some of it is indeed useful, if one needs it. Is there a local hackerspace? You could donate some of it there. You could put together assortments with a few hundred of each part, or kits of resistors and capacitors, or ICs. I have a stack of reels of parts I rescued from the e-waste bin at work that I've been gradually giving away to people who can use them. Better than throwing it away.

author: CJay
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 10, 2017, 05:18:46 pm
content: There is, apparently, a factory car park up here in the NW of England that was built on tons of 'surplus' components that were mixed in with the hardcore when they couldn't sell the parts anywhere, it was back when SMD was an esoteric emerging technology and the parts disposed of were through hole passives.While I agree the parts are worth pretty much nothing for resale value unless you strike lucky, they are far from worthless, hackerspaces, local clubs, youth organisaions, even schools may be grateful, if for nothing else than to be able to show people how to solder them or what sort of things go into the television they watch every night.

author: james_s
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 10, 2017, 06:10:48 pm
content: At least in the US, if you donate the stuff to something like a school or nonprofit org you can write off the value on your taxes. I'm not a tax expert but I believe you can write off the retail value.

author: Mechatrommer
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 10, 2017, 11:06:04 pm
content: Quote from: Falcon69 on May 10, 2017, 04:15:16 pmwhy you got sucked up by those many pedantics around here? last night i can see few items that interest me, but i guess most people advertising in this forum are not able to ship internationally so.. too bad on my part here... i suggest you sell in ebay, link to here and as someone said, let the market decides.

author: Shock
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 11, 2017, 01:03:48 am
content: Quote from: Mechatrommer on May 10, 2017, 11:06:04 pmSounds like we have a buyer here, let us know how many reels you're buying and how much your willing to pay for shipping.

author: Smokey
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 11, 2017, 01:24:38 am
content: Silly ... You can't simply delete stuff from the internet!!! Once it has been done, it cannot be undone!

author: Shock
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 11, 2017, 03:55:48 am
content: Quote from: Smokey on May 11, 2017, 01:24:38 amUnless you're Dave in which case you can undo the internet at will.(image removed)

author: Mechatrommer
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 11, 2017, 04:44:40 am
content: Quote from: Smokey on May 11, 2017, 01:24:38 amsays who? your posts are your property, this is beautifulness of eevblog. unless someone has made a copycat on it.Quote from: Shock on May 11, 2017, 01:03:48 amme? the OP hasnt come up with a price yet then how come a decision has been decided?

author: Shock
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 11, 2017, 04:57:54 am
content: Quote from: Mechatrommer on May 11, 2017, 04:44:40 amToo late man, you showed interest in buying them now you're committed. Don't worry I'm sure the $2 reels won't cost more than about $10 each in weight/size to ship.

author: EEVblog
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: May 11, 2017, 05:05:27 am
content: Quote from: Shock on May 11, 2017, 03:55:48 amReminds me of the time I tried to seriously buy the Dick Smith trademarks and the famous "Dick Head" logo.

author: Shock
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 11, 2017, 06:38:55 am
content: Quote from: EEVblog on May 11, 2017, 05:05:27 amYes it was in reference to that and your omnipotence.Remember you still owe me a decent chance in winning an Eevblog multimeter, I'm feeling lucky.

author: sleemanj
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 11, 2017, 08:41:31 am
content: Quote from: Falcon69 on May 04, 2017, 07:13:17 pmOf course it is resell-able, but only individually and it's not worth the time to do it for random stuff which is not the absolute most common round-number values you can get.Nobody will want to buy 562k resistors from you somebody looking for 562k is going straight to a parametric search on Digikey or Mouser or wherever, but selling a reel of 10R in 100 piece cut strips to hobbiests on eBay or similar is do-able, everybody needs 10R, maybe 1 person needs 562k.I'm a mug who will sell somebody a connector for 50c + postage the only way I make a profit on that is if I don't count my time, but even I wouldn't try selling that lot of yours.Go through the pile, take out anything where you think "that sounds like a value I might use", those are the ones you should sell off individually. The rest of them, the ones "I can't imagine any typical situation where I would ever come up with needing this value", put them all in a big box and sell them off at $1 reserve or something.If you are lucky, and patient, selling the good stuff piecemeal you might make your money back.