About DIMMsum

A free price tracker for used server RAM on eBay — live $/GB, median market lines, and real sold-price history.

What it does

eBay search is hostile to RAM buyers: "32GB (2x16GB)" is not a 32GB stick, one speed gets written five different ways, and lots, auctions, and for-parts listings all blend together in the results. DIMMsum normalizes each public eBay listing into an actual spec — capacity, speed, module type, stick count — and charts price per GB so you can see the market instead of scrolling it. The solid lines are the median $/GB for each stick size, computed only from single-stick, fixed-price, non-parts listings so multi-stick lots and auction bids can't skew them.

Where the data comes from

Live listings are refreshed twice daily (10,299 tracked right now). Once a week DIMMsum also collects eBay's sold/completed listings — 10,033 real sales going back to November 2025 — which powers the price-history trend on each spec page and the monthly market report. Prices always include shipping.

How the money works

Outbound listing links are eBay Partner Network affiliate links: if you click through and buy, eBay pays this site a commission. eBay pays; you don't. You pay the same price either way, and nothing here is sponsored — listings are ranked by $/GB, not by who pays. No ads, no accounts, no markups.

Who runs it

Austin, a homelabber whose entire lab came from eBay — the servers, the Brocade switch, the Ruckus APs, the UPS (revived with a LiFePO4 pack when its lead-acid died), even the patch cables arrived as a lot of 20. The only new machine in the house is the desktop. Buying that much used gear means doing a lot of $/GB math by hand, and this site exists because he got tired of it. Case in point: this site runs on a $400 eBay Cisco C240 M4 bought purely as a donor for its 128GB of RAM — the sticks alone were going for $400, so the server was effectively free. Then the EPYC box the RAM was destined for refused to POST with it, and the free server got a job instead. The full build story — why an LLM beats regex for eBay listing titles, and what parsing thousands of them costs — is on the blog: Building DIMMsum: a price tracker for used server RAM on eBay. DIMMsum is operated by Nerdy Austin, LLC.

Follow along

The monthly market report (signup below) is the main channel: median sold prices by spec, month-over-month movers, and the best current deals. There's also r/dimmsum for deals and discussion, and austinsnerdythings.com for the longer write-ups. Feature requests and bug reports are welcome in either place.