[TriEmbed] advice about selling reels of passive SMDs

[Pete Soper]

Thanks for the feedback.

Turns out there are roughly 300 reels of parts involved, or maybe 1-1.5 
million total.  These reels are surplus to our needs. Kevin graciously 
volunteered to try the approach Craig mentioned, attempting to sell the 
reels on EBay. We'll see how it goes.

Brian asked about my remark that these reels would only be useful for 
the most unlikely projects. I meant unlikely for SplatSpace, not "us".

-Pete



On 08/18/2017 09:40 AM, Pete Soper wrote:
> 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
>