If the winning bid is $100k, you spend $40k to move it out of there, another $10k warehousing it while selling everything on ebay, and you're still up $250k on the processors alone.
If the winning bid is $100k, you spend $40k to move it out of there, another $10k warehousing it while selling everything on ebay, and you're still up $250k on the processors alone.
But do you crater the market for those CPUs? What's the demand for 2016-era Xeons and how much of their price comes down to supply?
That's actually far from the truth, LGA2011 is quite popular as a budged gaming system precicely because CPUs are so cheap on the 2nd hand market.
There's a lot of low budget hosting with old Xeon systems (I'm paying $30/month for a dual westmere system; but I've seen plenty of offers on newer gear); you can still do a lot with an 18 core Broadwell, if the power is cheap.
Plus knowing a bit about warehouse costs … your $10K is a bit on the low side don’t you think?
Let's come back and see if the auction failed; I doubt it will.