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Title: Best Deal I've Ever Seen, Ever, Ever...
Post by: 127001 on Tue, 18 February 2014, 09:59:53
http://www.ebay.com/itm/251454197538
Title: Re: Best Deal I've Ever Seen, Ever, Ever...
Post by: SpAmRaY on Tue, 18 February 2014, 10:01:15
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Earn $100 eBay Bucks!!!!

And it was made in 1981 and made in Korea, if only it has NASA involved I'd be all over it :p

/sarcasm
Title: Re: Best Deal I've Ever Seen, Ever, Ever...
Post by: damorgue on Tue, 18 February 2014, 10:03:17
I want the keyboard. Does anyone else want to split the cost 1000:1? ;)

You can even keep all the gold in it and crystals too.

not serious btw
Title: Re: Best Deal I've Ever Seen, Ever, Ever...
Post by: Computer-Lab in Basement on Tue, 18 February 2014, 10:03:55
Wait, I don't see any gold in those pics.

If I'm gonna spend $40k, I at least want to be able to SEE the gold...
Title: Re: Best Deal I've Ever Seen, Ever, Ever...
Post by: regack on Tue, 18 February 2014, 10:04:10
Yes, that is indeed quite the catch.  Should have made it a BIN for $39k, I'd have been all over that.
Title: Re: Best Deal I've Ever Seen, Ever, Ever...
Post by: berserkfan on Tue, 18 February 2014, 10:55:03
Yes, that is indeed quite the catch.  Should have made it a BIN for $39k, I'd have been all over that.

Is the seller located in Chile? Maybe there are some unique Mandolin Minerals used to build this awesome computer. It must be quake proof, nuke proof, god knows' what else proof.
Title: Re: Best Deal I've Ever Seen, Ever, Ever...
Post by: Photoelectric on Tue, 18 February 2014, 18:05:27
The only computer you will ever need.  Completely future-proof if used as a stool.
Title: Re: Best Deal I've Ever Seen, Ever, Ever...
Post by: berserkfan on Tue, 18 February 2014, 20:14:53
This is such a fantastic deal, I want to risk my ebay feedback and take a hit for the team. anyone up to bidding against me? We can push this up to $100m or something. And let the second or third chance offer go to another bidder at the fantastic discount of 99.999%.
Title: Re: Best Deal I've Ever Seen, Ever, Ever...
Post by: Halverson on Tue, 18 February 2014, 20:25:26

This is such a fantastic deal, I want to risk my ebay feedback and take a hit for the team. anyone up to bidding against me? We can push this up to $100m or something. And let the second or third chance offer go to another bidder at the fantastic discount of 99.999%.

Hahah I would love to see that
Title: Re: Best Deal I've Ever Seen, Ever, Ever...
Post by: invariance on Tue, 18 February 2014, 20:55:59
Has the seller based the starting bid on its future value when it is buried under millions of tons of rock and the earth's core heat converts the silicon into diamond?

I suppose the mention of the gold plating is to highlight the fact that once it is dug up, the gold and diamond will be conveniently located together to make a nice engagement ring.
Title: Re: Best Deal I've Ever Seen, Ever, Ever...
Post by: Wildcard on Wed, 19 February 2014, 09:11:37
I bet there are gold bars in that monitor... Who's with me :)
Title: Re: Best Deal I've Ever Seen, Ever, Ever...
Post by: kleme on Wed, 19 February 2014, 20:56:56
not sure if i get the joke
Title: Re: Best Deal I've Ever Seen, Ever, Ever...
Post by: 1pq on Wed, 19 February 2014, 21:00:29
OMG he even included free shipping!!1
Title: Re: Best Deal I've Ever Seen, Ever, Ever...
Post by: berserkfan on Wed, 19 February 2014, 21:17:32
OK I cannot resist anymore.

Who has an alternate ebay account?

I'll set up an alternate one of my own, and let's get to work. One guy bids 999,000,000, one guy bids 1,000,000,000 ok? We'll get the computer who witnessed the birth of Lucy, the crucifixion of Christ and the bikini atoll nuclear test detonation all to the appropriately godly* price it should command.

 *God, as played by Jim Carey
Title: Re: Best Deal I've Ever Seen, Ever, Ever...
Post by: Pacifist on Wed, 19 February 2014, 21:20:16
OMG he even included free shipping!!1

That means he illegally ships it via parcel post
Title: Re: Best Deal I've Ever Seen, Ever, Ever...
Post by: Wildcard on Wed, 19 February 2014, 23:03:58
OMG he even included free shipping!!1

That means he illegally ships it via parcel post

Media mail ;)
Title: Re: Best Deal I've Ever Seen, Ever, Ever...
Post by: Pacifist on Wed, 19 February 2014, 23:08:06
OMG he even included free shipping!!1

That means he illegally ships it via parcel post

Media mail ;)

Did they change the name? Been a long time since I used it by accident
Title: Re: Best Deal I've Ever Seen, Ever, Ever...
Post by: Photoelectric on Wed, 19 February 2014, 23:14:44
Media mail is for books, documents, CDs, etc.  Parcel post is something else: is the cheapest ground transportation for any random thing.  It's still available to businesses, I believe.  The cheapest standard ground transportation available to private individuals for random non-media things is now called Standard Mail and is more expensive than Parcel Post :(