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| why do you collect cpus and chips? |
| it is your passion and you love your chips |
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| you want to sell them in future for a lot of money |
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| you don´t know |
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naked1300
Joined: 26 Jul 2007
Posts: 837
Location: Austria,
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 Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2008 7:34 pm Post subject: collecting... passion or financial investment |
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i want to know if you
collect cpus and chips because it is your passion and you love your chips and will never sell them,
or do you collect to sell them in future for a lot of money?
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Wizzard1
Joined: 05 Nov 2006
Posts: 930
Location: Boston MA USA
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| Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2008 7:53 pm Post subject: |
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I collect some (and most) for nothing other than passion, but I resell quite a few, and put just as many in use  |
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CPUShack
Joined: 16 Jun 2003
Posts: 34259
Location: State of Jefferson, USA
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andamus
Joined: 06 Dec 2004
Posts: 1029
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| Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2008 11:09 pm Post subject: |
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true passion here  |
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iguana
Joined: 24 Apr 2007
Posts: 2456
Location: Ottawa, Canada
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johnorun
Joined: 04 Apr 2008
Posts: 3364
Location: Chicago, IL- US
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| Posted: Tue Oct 21, 2008 12:46 am Post subject: |
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Chips are my hobby passion now, but it's nice that they have a market among a growing group of collectors.
I have no plans to sell my core chips, but hey, you never know....If I need the money bad, I know who to offer them to....YOU!  |
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Neon
Joined: 04 Feb 2008
Posts: 1512
Location: Dallas, Texas, USA
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| Posted: Tue Oct 21, 2008 12:54 am Post subject: |
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Desperation.
I have no friends.
Except the chips listen to me, yes they do.
And most of the time, they do agree. |
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hugo929
Joined: 27 Oct 2006
Posts: 6163
Location: China
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| Posted: Tue Oct 21, 2008 1:47 am Post subject: |
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| CPUShack wrote: | passion, but I buy dupes to resell, mostly to pay for my own chips.
Someday who knows, maybe I will sell, now? not likely. |
is what i thought
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smithy
Joined: 27 Apr 2008
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Location: Sydney, Australia
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| Posted: Tue Oct 21, 2008 3:08 am Post subject: |
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I'm hoping if I get enough boy and girl chips they will multiply...then it will be true passion.
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D.8080
Joined: 03 Apr 2006
Posts: 1474
Location: Italy
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| Posted: Tue Oct 21, 2008 3:49 am Post subject: |
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| smithy wrote: | | I'm hoping if I get enough boy and girl chips they will multiply...then it will be true passion. |
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Windmiller
Joined: 24 Jun 2005
Posts: 1716
Location: Chapel Hill, NC
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| Posted: Tue Oct 21, 2008 5:58 am Post subject: |
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I couldnt imagine selling my main collection. Too much time and effort and good memories. I've met more cool people through chip collecting than anything else.
Like many of us I do buy dupes to sell/trade to help fund my collection although I havent sold anything on ebay to date. |
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el_gecko
Joined: 25 May 2005
Posts: 1553
Location: Nice, France
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| Posted: Tue Oct 21, 2008 7:00 am Post subject: |
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| Windmiller wrote: | I couldnt imagine selling my main collection. Too much time and effort and good memories. I've met more cool people through chip collecting than anything else.
Like many of us I do buy dupes to sell/trade to help fund my collection although I havent sold anything on ebay to date. |
Same here.
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Chiefish
Joined: 23 Sep 2007
Posts: 2153
Location: Northwest N.J. U.S.A
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| Posted: Tue Oct 21, 2008 7:12 am Post subject: |
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I collect mainly for Bragging rights and E-PEEN contests LOL j/k I have passion for my collection, i collect for the same reasons most of you guys do, because i love it, not in it for the money as you guys probly know from my past sales here. I happen to buy alot of lots of chips and always have spares to sell. IF it helps to offset the cost of my collection chips then thats great, but i have bought the majority of my chips without the intent of resale. I agree with Windmiller also that i have met many many cool people from around the world doing this.
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D.8080
Joined: 03 Apr 2006
Posts: 1474
Location: Italy
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| Posted: Tue Oct 21, 2008 7:21 am Post subject: |
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Smithy we could train some Smurfs and have them stealing samples from Intel and Amd...
It has so difficult to collect cpus one by one at the beginning that to sell them would be to have myself in very BIG troubles, and need to cash fast for it.
I believe that selling some cpus we have is just a way to buy more cpus, not really just for the money, and we sell doubles.
It's really a passion. |
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FDIV
Joined: 12 Mar 2006
Posts: 740
Location: Ohio, USA
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| Posted: Wed Oct 22, 2008 12:59 am Post subject: |
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| I collect for passion and sell some duplicates and gold scrap to support the others. I cannot imagine selling my favorites. To many stories, to many good times, to much history. |
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