I guess I need to set up an eBay store or something... I sold a card for $180, eBay took $18 and Paypal took $7.32.   Uh, can I just have eBay take the fees out before they transfer it on over to their paypal subsidiary?

has anyone ever bought anything off of http://www.made-in-china.com ??   there are some amazing quantity deals on there, but i just happened to stumble upon that site whilst looking for something entirely different

the original question implies that he would be better off not selling it and mining with it himself.  so then it wouldn't be greedy to sell it.

i call it business acuity

oh, and this is a particularly good time to do the offloading too,

Not sure if this is a reference card (it looks like one), but pretty close to your price point:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B00A220HD6/ref=sr_1_78_olp?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1369991779&sr=1-78&keywords=7970&condition=used

two decidedly non-reference 7970s:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814131468
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814150665

if you don't have to pay sales tax at newegg and you do the MIR's and sell the games, both under $335 or less

and tigerdirect:

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=3242918&CatId=7387

us.ncix.com:

http://us.ncix.com/products/?sku=80254&vpn=FX797ATDJC&manufacture=XFX&promoid=1322
http://us.ncix.com/products/?sku=67172&vpn=FX797ATDFC&manufacture=XFX&promoid=1322
http://us.ncix.com/products/?sku=70111&vpn=AX7970%203GBD5-2DHV3&manufacture=PowerColor

wait til tomorrow though,

http://us.ncix.com/go/?Welcome

That's pretty much what I'm doing & why I'm ditching the 5830's.  I'd still keep 'em since GPU mining will still be profitable for at least one more difficulty cycle (barring a collapse in the exchange rate) & most likely two or even three (at my 6.8c or so elec)....  but right now I'm doing the whole mail in rebate + selling games coupons thing, replacing them with 7790's and 7850's when I see good deals on 'em.   Reasoning is that if I take the time to do the MIR, the cards are already profit once they arrive at my doorstep (even after taking ebay fees).

I'm sure they won't drop in price as much as the 5830, 5850, 5870, & 5970....  the 7950's might be worth it too, but not going to touch a 7970 unless I see one for $300 or less..

example:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814202004

use the MIR on that and sell the games and you've got a card you payed $120 for.... $110-$115 if you put a little effort into selling the games

two good 7790's

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814131490

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814150667

check how much they go for on eBay... if you do the MIR + sell those games, those are under $100

listing on ebay

i still have the fanless 5830 that i'll sell for $65

well, about 10-15 nodes dropped offline for me with this latest batch of horse staple battery transactions

waiting for answer from one person,  or taking second offer

listed on ebay @ http://www.ebay.com/itm/281115005913

upping price back to $160 here, but if someone wants it before it sells on ebay, feel free to msg

oh, i noticed it included two of those molex to pci-e things, so it now has two of those instead of one

if you eliminated the DOA's from the ASIC miner that has my pool as a backup, i have 501 shares, 12 orphans, and ~25-30 DOA (ed: more like 460-470 shares, 10-11 orphans, and ~25-30 DOA.  forgot to include the good ones too)

mining on my home connection nets me 0-1% DOA but 10%+ orphans.  i think it's due to 1) not being able to open that many connections (bandwidth), and 2) most of the hashing power being in europe and asia

anyway, for someone out there looking for a pool to mine at, the lowest latency one isnt necessarily the best.   i spent several days on my florida server (75ms latency) and ended up gonig back to germany, because the florida server's orphans >>> DOA on other server, even though it also had 50+ connections open.  like i said, i think that's probably due to all the nodes in europe, russia, china, etc

i imagine the default outgoing limit was set to such a small number w/ ppl like myself in mind (crap upstream from home connection), but with 10Mbit connection you should at least up that to 15 or so.   it looks like my average outgoing is around 200 KB/s with 70 connections, though on occasion it'll go > 500KB/s

i'm not that fond of incoming connections (due to all the messed up nodes that'll connect and disconnect + the nodes with 1000+ms latency), but if nobody accepted any incoming, then, well....   i set mine to 10 as a compromise.. it defaults to 40.   the --p2pool-node you put as additions don't count as outgoing connections towards your limit.    (i have 5 outgoing, 10 incoming, the rest are all from --p2pool-node)

7790's should get around 300mhash @ max of 85 watts (ed: hmm, probably thinking of the 7770 and like 100 watts?  maybe 150 for the 7790?)?  what is the 7970?  

a compilation:

msi 7770, $80 after rebate, comes with Far Cry 3, Far Cry 3 Blood Dragon, and 3d Mark

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127687

My guess is if you're lazy and want to get rid of the games really fast, then you could get $10 for 'em.  With a little more effort, up to $20.   So maybe $65 (if you also take the effort to do the MIR).

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powercolor 7790, $115 after rebate, comes with Far Cry 3 Blood Dragon, Bioshock & Tomb Raider

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814131490

These should be easier to sell.  $15 would go instantly, $20 should be somewhat easy.  $25 may be possible.  I'll call it $95-$100..

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XFX Radeon HD 7850 Core Edition 860MHZ 1GB 4.8GHZ GDDR DVI HDMI 2XMINIDP PCI-E Video Card, $139.99 after $20 mail-in rebate

http://us.ncix.com/products/?sku=77797&vpn=FX-785A-ZNL4&manufacture=XFX&promoid=1281

also comes with the games.  Bioshock Infinite, Tomb Raider, FC3 Blood Dragon...  same deal, $20'ish.  so about $120 for that card...

or, XFX Double D FX-785A-ZDF4 Radeon HD 7850 1GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFireX Support Video Card, $144.99 after $25 MIR.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814150656

comes with same games as other... about $125...  I think I'd take this one though, unless you live in an area where you have to pay taxes to newegg and maybe not to ncix.

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7870, nothing really spectacular here atm...  I guess the best card may be:

Powercolor Radeon HD 7870 PCS+ MYST.(TAHITI LE) 2GB 6Gbps GDDR5 DVI HDMI 2XMINIDP PCI-E Video Card, $209 after MIR

http://us.ncix.com/products/?sku=78372&vpn=AX7870%202GBD5-2DHPPV3E&manufacture=PowerColor&promoid=1281

just because it's the tahiti LE edition..  comes with the extra game (Crysis), so $20 easy, $25-$30 possible.  takes it down to around $185

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7950 (best deal, I think),

Powercolor Radeon HD7950 850 MHz 3GB GDDR5 DVI HDMI Mini DPX2 PCI-E2.1 Video Card, $249.99 after MIR

http://us.ncix.com/products/?sku=79989&vpn=AX7950%203GBD5-2DHV4&manufacture=PowerColor&promoid=1281

comes with all 4 games, so around $225'ish after that.

i bought one of these.

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7970,

Powercolor Radeon HD 7970 925MHZ 3GB 5.5GBPS GDDR5 V3 DVI HDMI 2XMINIDP PCI-E Video Card, $329.99 after MIR

http://us.ncix.com/products/?sku=70111&vpn=AX7970%203GBD5-2DHV3&manufacture=PowerColor&promoid=1281

comes with all 4 games, takes it to about $305.

i think these will fall quicker than the rest, probably worth picking up in a month or so

yeah, i'd buy a 5870 for $100

you could turn it immediately for a profit, assuming it's not missing any parts, hah

sell it, if you can get $3000 for it


in bitcoins, or person-to-person cash transfer 

Oh, basing bitcoin price off of mtgox 24-hr moving avg or current price, whichever is lower.  Right now that'd be $128, so 1.32BTC (rounding down to 2nd decimal point)

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old info, would be 1.14 bitcoins now

i have ~8ghash worth of gpus on hand and ready to ship this moment

i will sell all this equipment for 74btc

finished a trade with badbear, np

triple the value or (much) more, depending on rarity of coin (*maybe how old the coin is would be more accurate...  very few coins pre-1960 or 1970 will be ms67...  before people started getting stuff just as 'collector's items'.... think of like the baseball card price crash)......

ed: ANACS is a 2nd tier grading service, for a coin of significant value, i'd get it graded by PCGS or NGC.  i don't really know what these are though?  and i guess just a niche market, instead of coin collectors as a whole?

done

besides just grepping BLOCK on the log file?  probably not..  i've found 3 in the last 2 months or so, but that's incredibly lucky.   just look at what the normal odds would be and calculate it that way, i guess.  for 10ghash, the average time to find a block would be about 2 months exactly.  so the chances of finding one before next difficulty change is, what, 25%?   so, if some 500kb block size increases the # of orphans and DOA you get by even .5% or something, it's a bad deal.  i still think the best thing to do here would be to give fees to block solver, but w/e

raising blocksize to something like 20,000 or 30,000 and also raising the minimum fee, i think you could argue that might be more efficient for both

ed:  i've run p2pool on a virtual ubuntu server on my home connection.  i have an i7 980 and 24GB RAM, so I keep entire blockchain in RAM, etc.  but I have to limit upstream to 50KB/s, because home connection is only 1Mbit upstream (or so they claim, it's more like 768Kbps)...  anything more and it starts to cause some jitter, anything past 70KB/s and I start getting packetloss.   so a 500KB block would take some 10 seconds to send out to 1 peer.  this also increases the chance of it being orphaned from bitcoin network itself, not just p2pool