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Wanna buy some land off the coast of Florida??????? Wanna buy a bridge????????
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It's a virtually unintelligible auction for an unknown product from a seller with low feedback who sells $.99 bags of gold flake for $45 and who sells multiple pieces of worthless Iraqi paper money to the same ebayer who turns around and sells it for 1/5th of what he bought it for?
What exactly would you do with a pound of busted, rusted metal? Put it in the safe? Sell it on eBay? Sell it to a recycler for a profit? Doesn't it seem odd that the original seller knows enough to pull this corroded metal out of the guts of an automobile and list it for sale on the internet, but can't quite figure out how to sell it to a recycler?
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You can purchase a brand new catalytic converter for less the $100 online. That should give you some idea how much platinum is used in their manufacture. If the metal in the auction is even from a converter, which is a series of honeycomb plated metal, it would be equivalent to sending your plated gold jewelery to cash for gold and seeing what they would offer (zero). Perhaps if you had a few tons it would be worth while.
BNB, some folks might bust your chops a little, don't take it the wrong way, but IMO you did the right thing by asking first. Imagine if you bought this stuff then posted your "haul".
<< <i>You can purchase a brand new catalytic converter for less the $100 online. That should give you some idea how much platinum is used in their manufacture. If the metal in the auction is even from a converter, which is a series of honeycomb plated metal, it would be equivalent to sending your plated gold jewelery to cash for gold and seeing what they would offer (zero). Perhaps if you had a few tons it would be worth while. >>
Yes but those are aftermarket cats which contain Much less PM's than OEM cats. I get over $100 for nearly every junk cat I sell to the scrap guy. Not saying its a good idea to purchase that stuff. Actually my guy will only pay $2/# for loose stuff like that.
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What exactly would you do with a pound of busted, rusted metal? Put it in the safe? Sell it on eBay? Sell it to a recycler for a profit? Doesn't it seem odd that the original seller knows enough to pull this corroded metal out of the guts of an automobile and list it for sale on the internet, but can't quite figure out how to sell it to a recycler?
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<< <i>You can purchase a brand new catalytic converter for less the $100 online. That should give you some idea how much platinum is used in their manufacture. If the metal in the auction is even from a converter, which is a series of honeycomb plated metal, it would be equivalent to sending your plated gold jewelery to cash for gold and seeing what they would offer (zero). Perhaps if you had a few tons it would be worth while. >>
Yes but those are aftermarket cats which contain Much less PM's than OEM cats. I get over $100 for nearly every junk cat I sell to the scrap guy. Not saying its a good idea to purchase that stuff. Actually my guy will only pay $2/# for loose stuff like that.
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I thought it was pretty smart to ask first before just bidding on the auction. That is what this forum is for, help from fellow collectors!
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