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Re:22-year-old builds chips in his parents’ garage by rdtwo on Sunday January 23, 2022 @01:14PM (#30048655)
Why not eBay? Usally things are more expensive but for small stuff you pay market price
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Re:22-year-old builds chips in his parents’ garage by was_a_dev on Sunday January 23, 2022 @01:48PM (#30049044)
eBay in the UK is just a platform for people to sell their old hardware near retail price.

Some niches are decent value

Finding a £1k electron microscope would never happen

Edit:

A quick search across Europen eBay, I could buy a used/broken SEM for £5000 ($6850)

Then I'd need to rent somewhere to operate it

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Re:22-year-old builds chips in his parents’ garage by rdtwo on Sunday January 23, 2022 @03:13PM (#30049998)
Space is a huge problem. I would have had the same issue as 25 year old.
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Re:22-year-old builds chips in his parents’ garage by rdtwo on Sunday January 23, 2022 @01:53PM (#30049109)
It’s market price +10% + shipping. Anything under you could buy up and resell for profit and I sometimes do
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