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geekhack Marketplace => Great Finds => Topic started by: ander on Wed, 20 April 2016, 17:42:23
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You read that right! Here's your chance to own over 10 tons of cheap discarded and surplus keyboards:
Bulk Lot Of 21000 Lbs Of Keyboards (http://www.ebay.com/itm/Bulk-Lot-Of-21000-Lbs-Of-Keyboards-/272212613028)
(http://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/KDgAAOSwJMhXEIs0/s-l1600.jpg)
Just think of it: 31 gaylords full of cheap keyboards nobody wants—all yours! Bids starting at just $8,500.00!
Buyer must pick up locally in beautiful San Ramon, Calif., home to the headquarters of the Chevron Corporation and numerous goofy, tasteless monster houses like this one:
(http://tours.tourfactory.com/tours/media/scene/big2/00/21/46/74/21467472.jpg)
You'll never forgive yourself if you pass up this unique opportunity to own over 10 tons of useless crap! Bid now!
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what the ****
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I wonder what shipping cost to Australia would be ...
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I wonder what shipping cost to Australia would be ...
Probably be cheaper to move to the US :D.
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Wonder if they'd let me drive over and preview it
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That starting bid LMFAO :)) :)) :))
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I wonder how they got so many keyboards in the first place.
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Wonder if they'd let me drive over and preview it
You'd really need to be able to. $8,500 for what amounts to e-waste would net you -$15k as you'd have to pay to move, store and then dispose of it properly.
Those Dell keyboards are a total loss you wouldn't be able to give them away for shipping costs. You'd need a rather high percentage of NIB modern keyboards and decent vintage boards to make this even close to a net-neutral buy :/
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I wonder how they got so many keyboards in the first place.
Probably an e-waste recycling center. Tons of those to service the Silicon Valley.
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i remember there was a auction of 30000 pounds of keyboard that had a start bid of $50... it's not from ebay though
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And not a single one was good. I'd laugh--as long as I wasn't the one paying. :P
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don't know anything about architecture, what makes you say the house's design is tasteless? i'm guessing because of the middle section?
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Not enough sculptures
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Looks like a lot of trash, opening bid is way too high
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Not enough sculptures
are you referring to the disturbing lack of garden gnomes
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Not enough sculptures
are you referring to the disturbing lack of garden gnomes
I'd rather not hear about garden gnomes.
I have this thing about them since HL2. And yes, I did complete the quest.
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this is the perfect opportunity to start my dell membrane group buy on /r/mk
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Do they use "pounds" in Canada?
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Come to think of it, you'd need a house that big for that many KBs.
Do they use "pounds" in Canada?
Nope, but that seller's in the States.
Oh, too bad, the auction ended without any bids. I wonder if they're going to start offering the boxes separately?
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So I did the math on this and I found that this is actually not a bad price. If we don't take labor and chemical costs into consideration, and we assume that each keyboard is approximately 1 lb each then:
- We have approximately 21,000 keyboards.
- Approximately 70 keyboards gives us a pound of mylar sheets.
- Each pound of mylar gives us about 12oz of silver (according to research I did).
- At a current price of approximately $17 per gram, we end up with a total value of approximately (3600oz * $17.02) = $61,000.
Of course, I'm not taking labor and chemical recovery costs into consideration here and I'm making some assumptions based on things I don't know, but this could actually be a pretty viable profit if you had the chemical recovery setup for it.
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So I did the math on this and I found that this is actually not a bad price. If we don't take labor and chemical costs into consideration, and we assume that each keyboard is approximately 1 lb each then:
- We have approximately 21,000 keyboards.
- Approximately 70 keyboards gives us a pound of mylar sheets.
- Each pound of mylar gives us about 12oz of silver (according to research I did).
- At a current price of approximately $17 per gram, we end up with a total value of approximately (3600oz * $17.02) = $61,000.
Of course, I'm not taking labor and chemical recovery costs into consideration here and I'm making some assumptions based on things I don't know, but this could actually be a pretty viable profit if you had the chemical recovery setup for it.
One of the recycling centres I visited actually did harvest the silver off of keyboards, but they stopped doing it because iit was too labour intensive for too little money.
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This gentleman might be interested:
http://www.likep.com/2011/09/artist-creates-space-shuttle-mosaic.html
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Or this guy:
http://www.homeharmonizing.com/2013/02/19/throne-of-nerds-keyboard-chair-by-mike-dewolfe/
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LOL—now there's a comfortable-looking piece of furniture.
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LOL—now there's a comfortable-looking piece of furniture.
You'd end up with little indentations all down your arms and legs. And other places.
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But imagine if they were actually connected to a computer. If you sat in it long enough, you could eventually type all the works of Shakespeare. Or at least the lyrics to a hit pop tune. The 2nd one is much more likely.
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Wait, 31 what of keyboards?
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$8,500 for 10˝ tons of garbage.
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Wait, 31 what of keyboards?
gaylord boxes.
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Wait, 31 what of keyboards?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaylord_(container)
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It was a close decision between calling them that or "elbow macaroni boxes".
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I read the listing to the guys at work and they all cracked up laughing. I actually can't believe they are called gaylords.
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I read the listing to the guys at work and they all cracked up laughing. I actually can't believe they are called gaylords.
You'd have a fun time in most manufacturing facilities. Gaylords, bung holes, ... well that's actually all I can think of right now but there are some good names out there I promise. :))
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Just think of all the new words they had to create for computer stuff. They could've had a lot more fun with that, if you ask me. But no.