[TriEmbed] advice about selling reels of passive SMDs

[Pete Soper]

I'm looking for folks with experience with (or watching others) selling 
random reels of surface mount parts. Scrap Exchange donated some boxes 
of reels to Splatspace and we cannot possibly use them for any but the 
most unlikely of projects. I want to propose to the board that the parts 
get sold, with a thank you payment back to Scrap, but I don't know if 
this is hair-brained or likely to be straight forward, or anything in 
between. I think Scrap has spent a year or two wishing they could sell 
them (mile long necklace, anybody?) They're in cardboard boxes that 
aren't charred, so I don't think they've been outside their storage temp 
limits <grin>. But of course the humidity has been off the wall ('cept 
one reel of caps is in a desiccant bag).

The material is mostly resistors (mostly 0603), but some caps (including 
some big, higher voltage aluminum electrolytics), a few rectifiers and 
inductors, resistor networks and maybe other parts. Many have sources 
only knowable to those who can interpret the wad of numbers on the 
reels, others are obvious like well labeled AVX caps. I SWAG (silly, 
wild-ass guess) a million resistors, some tens of thousands of 
capacitors, maybe a reel or two of the others.

What say you, people of vast collective experience?

-Pete