Anyone that has read the forum in the past few months? I mean, I remember a year ago, this was a peaceful and trusted land. We didn't need cops or guidelines, we were a small and happy community...

Then bitcoins got valued, attracting interest from every kind of person... EVERY kind of person

Exacto, quando eu disse que não vendo por esse preço era só isso. Descrevi o porquê, mas não era com segundas intenções, se o Fabio conseguir comprar por esse preço, maravilha!

O que eu propus tambem é apenas o que mencionei; compro a bom preço, dinheiro na mão. Pensei para mim que se ele está realmente a comprar a esse preço talvez queira vender por + 25%

Enfim...

Portal 2?

Understood, but not fair. You could have at least given me a heads up.

But whatever, it's your stuff, you are free to sell it to whomever you choose. I'll still take the other 3, but only if you are actually intending to sell them to me.

Full disclosure to everyone on the thread: I offered to buy and accepted the ask price, requested escrow. Got back some issues with international shipping (perfectly understandable) and request for potential escrows. Sent pointer to potential escrows and was waiting on a response when this post was made.

My scam prevention scheme:
me - "I will not send first!"
seller - "ok, how about half on sending the package?"
me -"I will not send a single bitcoin first, but I will accept sending to trusted escrow"
seller - "great, I trust (insert seller alter-ego here)!"
me - "How about (insert list of people with more than a year on the forum, and still active)"

Three things may happen here, in order of probability, top is higher:
- Silence... soon after I see people crying scam on this seller's threads
- "I know none of those people!", followed by what's described above
- "Ok, I'll just send first, I guess I can trust you, please don't scam me"

I have this down to a science

A pergunta não era académica. Quantas tens para vender, por quanto vendes? Se estás a comprar a €3 (abaixo do mínimo dos ultimos meses, metade do valôr presente de mercado) eu assumo que tenhas uma boa oferta para venda.

Eu compro e vendo com regularidade, obviamente que não me interessa a esse preço, mas talvez queira comprar...

E vendes por quanto?

sunny day and I have an agreement for the sale of the 4 HDDs, but we haven't yet agreed on the terms of the payment.

That is actually a fair bid. I have someone locally wanting to buy it from me for a bit more (in cash). I prefer selling for bitcoins, but will take the best bid still.

Remember that I'm shipping from Europe.

Sure

The fact I say and the fact the previous post is dated March 4 can be completely ignored... I know you are busy and can't be bored with context

While the price has changed significantly (the price of bitcoins, that is), I still have this up for sale.

Any interest?

Right, I really don't need the motherboard, so let me know if decide to sell just the GPU.

Thanks!

I wish. But a big part of this economy is not mining. In fact the mining has no value in and on itself, the bitcoins must have purpose.

I have bought many, many things with bitcoins, both paying for used stuff bought here or by converting to cash and buying directly. I would feel really depressed if I was to look back at what I sold for, and how many I sold. I could be rich!

But, on the other hand, if I didn't, along with others, spend bitcoins like there was no tomorrow the economy wouldn't have reached the critical mass needed to become valued by others, so I see it as an investment, not as a stupid expense. So no, I'm not swimming in a pool of bitcoins, though I connect to them. And no, I don't have a huge mining farm... I could, with all the GPUs I bought to date, but you know what happened to some

Education, fun, new topics for elevator chat, cookie points ?

I didn't try to get an extra 20-50mhs, mind you, I got a whole lot more out of these babies, but the end result is in sight. Also remember I didn't start this month, or this year to be honest. Back then not much was known and it was these sacrifices that allowed everyone to run safe now at peak speeds

I've received a couple of PMs from the American side of the pond asking about how much shipping would be, so here it is for everyone:

Each card is ~1.3 kg bare, so even with boxes and such we're in the 1~2 Kg price range. Unfortunately to the US that's €40 ($57) for each or €60 ($86) for both, I really don't think this pays off to anyone on that side of the pond.

Shipping inside Europe should be about half as much, btw.

Also, although prices are pegged to € or $, I will only accept bitcoins Putting a price in BTC for the shipping is a bit on the brave side right now given the exchange rate volatility, and I'm not that brave.

6.5 for shipping, plus 54.31 for tablet == 60.81 ~= $526 (@8.665 24 avg) ~= £322.

amazon (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Asus-EeePad-Transformer-Tablet-Android/dp/B004TB0EMK/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1314401287&sr=8-2) is £343 - 20% VAT ~= £286 ~= $468

And of course I have it here in 3 days and they pay for returns if needed.

This is obviously not just for you but for anyone who might be interested in selling me on to have a base line

I might just use spendbitcoins and get it there is a better option doesn't come up in a few days.

Thanks for that. I had already seen your site, and there are three issues I have:
- Price - I can buy cheaper on amazon.co.uk (because I can get VAT refund) and that's including shipping
- Warranty - If I'm buying new, I expect to be able to easily exercise it if there is an issue. Shipping to the US, both in time and cost, is kind of a bummer.
- Origin - I really don't want to have this stopped at customs and pay VAT over it.

But I have seriously considered buying there, if only to help the bitcoin economy dynamics. In the end price won

I know the HP Touchpad is all the rage now on the forum, but what I really want to get is an eee pad transformer. 16GB or 32GB, doesn't matter, with or without the keyboard, new or used in good shape, I'm not picky

Good price is what I'm looking for, shipped to Europe. Any takers?

I can read some Italian but I wouldn't even try to write it, so assuming you didn't sell it yet I'd be interested in the 5970, shipped abroad (inside EU).

Ok, so being keen on experimenting I was able to kill a bunch of hardware, including these two 5970s. By kill I don't mean they are totally useless or not fixable, so read on.

On the pictures below there's an A and a B card. Don't assume the brand will match that of the cooler, as I often mixed and matched these (same goes for backplates). But all my 5970s are reference so that is not really a problem (and honestly the cooler/backplate should be correct, but I didn't do much effort to make sure of that).
Also all the BIOS are stock voltage (that doesn't mean they were never over volted, I did that back in the days to try out but decided against it) and ram is low bound to 300Mhz. All BIOS have been downloaded tweaked and flashed for each card, no reusing BIOS files across cards.

The A card is the deadest amongst the dead; it passes POST, the fans spin 100% and then down as they should and the OS (only use linux here) actually boots and sees the card BUT:
- There is no image anywhere, none of the ports work
- The card gets very, very hot, even just standing there idle
- Can't mine on it, the driver crashes immediately
- I have removed the cooler, verified everything, new paste, some pads changed, no good.
- EDIT: actually linux doesn't boot with this card anymore... assume dead: fan up and down, no beeps, no red lights and overheats immediately.

The B card is actually working, sort of; it boots and has image, and I can even mine on it:
- GPU0, if used to mine, locks computer (same for any 3D accelerated rendering, but I use it for ubuntu's desktop just fine)
- GPU1 I can mine with, but it gives hardware errors interleaved with actual hashes. It mines at ~360Mhs at 820Mhz according to cgminer

I've since replaced these cards and don't have a place for them ATM and, being crippled or dead, it really doesn't pay off to buy all the other hardware needed for a new computer. I'm selling these as broken, the Saphire cooler is almost new (used only for a week or two, card was WC'd), the ASUS cooler I bought used (well, the whole card, not just the cooler ) so I can't speak about it's health other than it works perfect.

These are being shipped from Europe and I'll entertain any bid that covers shipping in full. Of course I may choose not to sell if the bids are not worth my time to package and ship

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