How to sell a fairly huge amount of high performance ADC's? - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: læven
author_rank: Newbie
timestamp: September 07, 2022, 05:57:15 pm
content: I'm not sure if this is the best category to post this, so please let me know if there's a better place.Long story short: I hang out at a hackerspace, a few years ago we were lucky enough to get last pickings through piles of hardware at a HW-development/testing company that went out of business, found a lot of cool stuff, among that a boatload of ADC's.Among the stuff we scavenged was a large amount of HMCAD 1511(we're talking several boxes, with multiple trays) as well as a few trays of 1520's.For several years now they've been standing on a shelf, with other oddities as stuff sometimes do at hackerspaces. Considering it as "nice to have" yet with no real need for them, I assume stuff like this usually is bought in bulk quantities like this with certificates and whatnot to ensure they are within spec and whatnot, something we for obvious reasons don't have.But, with the current chip shortages and all this, we got to thinking that there might be potential buyers that's willing to go through some extra trouble to get products rolling off the assembly lines if the price is right.So in the end, my question is: should we just consider all of these chips as paperweights, or is there any way we could sell these for a price that would be reasonable for both us and the purchaser?

author: james_s
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 07, 2022, 06:03:51 pm
content: Put them on ebay. I was surprised once when I listed a few reels of parts I had pulled out of the trash at a former job and I ended up getting contacted by some little company that paid me around $2k for them. I dunno what they wanted them for but it was easy money.

author: Zoli
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: September 07, 2022, 06:07:42 pm
content: Both ADC's are MSL3(168h); I would consider them risky sell/buy, no matter where.

author: daqq
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 07, 2022, 06:08:47 pm
content: Some part brokers buy parts from people who don't need them. Try searching for some ( like this:https://www.aeri.com/excess-inventory/) and who knows.

author: Aleksorsist
author_rank: Newbie
timestamp: September 07, 2022, 08:54:17 pm
content: PM'd!

author: james_s
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 08, 2022, 01:44:03 am
content: I had a look at the datasheet, seems like those would be great for a DSO. Maybe somebody can start an open source DSO project built around them? A supply of normally expensive parts at a bargain basement price can make a project like that feasible.

author: Black Phoenix
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 09, 2022, 04:06:10 am
content: Put them on eBay and maybe you will be surprised.Some years ago I got some boxes with Sony DDS-4 tapes, about 250 units at total from a warehouse cleanup owned by a friend.After had listed on eBay, a Singapore company contacted me and bought the full stock for around 5000USD.I was expecting to see a PayPal Chargeback (that I would lose since it's know that eBay mostly sides with the buyer) so I kept the money in the account for some months. But in reality nope.So do the same and who knows.

author: Ranayna
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 09, 2022, 02:17:53 pm
content: Quote from: Black Phoenix on September 09, 2022, 04:06:10 amOh wow... I think i must rummage through the storage rooms at my workplace. I think there should be a couple of boxes of DDS4 tapes lying around in some dark corner.

author: Black Phoenix
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 09, 2022, 07:16:23 pm
content: Quote from: Ranayna on September 09, 2022, 02:17:53 pmThis was way back in 2010 by the way. If a company have an old system of tapes and don't want to update to newer like LTOs it's fairly common to pay for old stuff. In this case they mostly were set for 5 years +/-.Edit: just done a search and new tapes being sold on eBay go around $12 to $20/unit, so let's say $15 X 250 = $3,750 plus handling and shipping.So yeah not a bad deal if you are able to get them NOS for nothing.

author: læven
author_rank: Newbie
timestamp: March 26, 2023, 05:41:42 pm
content: So, just for completeness(because who doesn't like when a thread has a resolution):I got to sell off one tray off these, I sent the buyer a few samples so that they could test and verify that they worked. Then sent the remaining tray over to them.