Workz_777
Senior Member
I love that you're including a screenshot of this in your eBay listing. I saw you are finally back at it. I see a reball and a 65nm frankie up for sale. High price, but I'm curious to see if it sells. 2 year warranty is pretty epic. You do lean pretty heavily on your credentials, so maybe you can convince someone yours is worth a premium. I'm not saying it isn't worth that...IDK really.
AFAIK @DeadEnd's is the only one that's been sold, for around $800. But who knows what they're worth. The market will decide and I guess it makes sense to start high and lower the price if it doesn't sell.
When I really start thinking about the amount of time and money I've put in before having any sort of sucess with reballing, let alone a frankie, $800 seems fair. And I would need to sell many before breaking even.
OTH I would like to see the prices fall to a more affordable point where more people can enjoy these consoles. We know how to do it now. It's just a matter of cranking them out and competing with each other.
In North America people have much more disposable income compared to other countries, due to the price of food, gas, energy, vehicles, property, retail, rent, etc in the US being many times cheaper than in Europe. And the average wage salary in the US being higher. For example here in the UK, 500 litres of heating oil = $918, electricity bill for 1 month = $262, and food prices are sky high. Yet the average yearly income in Europe is alot less when compared to the US. Because of this, imo, there is no way a person would pay $800 for a BC 40nm / 65nm Frankie PS3 in Europe. Maybe $400 to $500 max.