Why is DDR2 so expensive?

I did and they cross checked my name and address and shut the new one down as well. It's my paypal account that gave it away and I only have one bank account so can't start another PP account either. Although I guess I could have a none-verified PayPal account and transfer the funds to my active one...would that work?

 

Hm... yeah, you're probably screwed then. Maybe you could get a friend to start an account with their own information, and you could transfer the required sum to their bank account? Just a thought. It would be a really awkward way to do business, but it'd probably be fine if you only needed to buy/sell a few things. Why did they shut down the old one?

 

Because my dad borrowed it, said he'd keep it on track this time but once again ran the fees up to about £400 and now won't pay it. I'm certainly not coughing up for it and he seems to have no intention to so it just sits as is. I should have known better to be fair, never give your account to someone who has the attitude of "it's my item I'm selling so all of the profit is mine" he clearly has no respect for the concept of paying for a service. That said he's manipulative and I live in their house for free at the moment so it's hard to get leverage on things like that.

Anyway, even if I did somehow pay it, there's no guarantee they'd open it again. My brother paid his £200 worth of fees on his account after he'd been out of work for 2 months and when they re-instated it they've banned him from selling on the account of untrustworthy seller activity...when we asked what that activity was, they said that because he hadn't paid his fees in a timely fashion, they didn't trust him to accumulate more. Despite him proving he was temporarily on income support in that time period, they were having none of it. Six months have passed and they still haven't lifted the restriction.

Ebay are absolute fuckers, but then I think we all knew that anyway.

 

Selling it at a low price to move it on is only important if the seller needs the money quick, or it's costing them a lot to store it.

If you have 10 8gb DDR sticks and sell them at £10 now, you'll only make £100. If you hold out for £80 for one then you only need two people to buy them before you've made more money, you can just throw the other 8 away. Or maybe someone else will be desperate enough.

Price for memory follows a bell curve (and most goods in general). It's at it's cheapest when everyone is buying it, because the demand is such that it's worth everyone supplying it in huge quantities. The margins are miniscule but when shipping in quantity it makes it worthwhile.

Holding the price high is a gamble, if you sell yours cheap then your competitor will probably make more than you did (he's still got his and the supply just reduced making them rarer).
Hold out too long and you'll lose out. But you might already have made back your investment on the memory and all business is gambling.

Yeah, never become ill if you are selling anything. If a couple of buyers rate you as not posting quick enough then your account is likely limited for a year. Maximum 10 listings a month, no free listing weekends, it seems to affect your seller protection too.

 

Well in my brothers case it wasn't illness that caused it. He only ever sold cars (hence the high fees) and it was done face to face, quickly and with no bad feedback or anything. It was missing paying his fees on time once that caused the what appears to be infinite suspension. It's really weird. It's like missing one months phone bill and then being told you can never have a phone again.

 

Sure, my point was that if you do get ill and can't send the parcel straight away then ebay don't care. Try not to sell anything that will end around the time of any natural disasters, flooding etc.

ebay don't like taking risks. As soon as you show up as a possible risk then they will cut you off, there are enough other people who don't show up as a risk that their policy appears sound to them.

How likely is it that you will actually earn money if you get it though? If you're guaranteed to make it back quickly then borrowing the money is worthwhile, if you're going to get it and then find out that you can't make any money then you're better off putting effort into something else. Also how realistic is it that this is the only way you can earn money? Scraping together the money to buy the ram by getting a job collecting glasses in a bar on a Friday/Saturday, or doing a shit job in a kitchen on the side is a better way than borrowing. It might take you ten weeks to get the memory and if you're not physically able to do menial work then you are more limited.

 

I have an app that needs finishing. Potential profit is around £17k...

As for eBay, don't know what to do about it, what's sad is my account was opened in 2002, shame it's now sitting dead as a dodo.

 

Is want of a £35 RAM stick really preventing you from finishing this app you've been working on? If so PM me your address and I will buy the fucking RAM myself and have it sent to you.

Of course I will need 20% of your company in return.

 

I'm out

 

DDR2 isn't so bad. First gen RDRAM (which is currently in my Win98 PC) is still difficult or at a good price. In fact, right now there are NONE on Ebay. I recall a time when I wanted to upgrade that PC (back in 2007) and it would have cost $900 to get 2GB worth (4x512MB). I ended up buying a new computer instead.

 

I'd have paid the fees just to keep the account open. Then you could either take it up with him personally as a debt owed, or write it off in lieu of your living there rent-free. Of course, that's speculation now, as they probably won't reopen it. You could ask them, but they'll say that someone else using your account is no excuse as it's against the TOS, so don't play that card!

 

Yeah DDR4 is 'out' but there's no support with current CPUs, the CPUs in early 2014 will support it.
As for cheap RDRAM... Haha, get old dell machines off ebay with it and take the RAM from them . At a college I was at, they had LOADS of spare RDRAM modules from dell PCs that had been parted, you just need to make sure the model you're buying has RDRAM.

I've got some SODIMM RAM modules from this 2006 macbook, not sure if they're DDR or DDR2 or what though and they're not 4GB. Think 2 are 2GB and 1 is 512MB or 1GB, can't remember where I placed then.

 

I have 4GB's of DDR 2 out of an old PC that the motherboard is shot on.

The issue with it is that it will post with one stick, but doesn't post with the other. And then in the other slot neither post. So I'll use memtest 86 to make sure that atleast one of the sticks works [the one that posts] properly. The other one is frankly a mystery and you can decipher that one works, I'd hazard a guess its just shot but if it works it's yours lol.

It's just rendition value RAM. This is a run off from Crucial IIRC. but an extra 2GB's of anything should help you.

I don't know what the market price is but you can have them for the price of postage if you will post in my feedback thread that the deal happened.

 

Would have taken you up on this but it was laptop RAM I needed, cheers for the offer though.

Anyway my crisis is over, managed to get 4GB for £20 in 2x2GB config. Maybe someday soon I'll come across a single 4GB stick for a low price so I can max out to 6GB but for the meantime I'm happy, I can now get back to iOS Devving and the performance increase I'm seeing is noticeable