21,000 pounds of keyboards

[ander]

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





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:





You'll never forgive yourself if you pass up this unique opportunity to own over 10 tons of useless crap! Bid now!

[trenzafeeds]

what the ****

[rowdy]

I wonder what shipping cost to Australia would be ...

[Touch_It]

I wonder what shipping cost to Australia would be ...

Probably be cheaper to move to the US .

[jwaz]

Wonder if they'd let me drive over and preview it

[Venatorious]

That starting bid LMFAO  )  )  )

[rowdy]

I wonder how they got so many keyboards in the first place.

[jbondeson]

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 :/

[Elth]

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.

[jonathanyu]

i remember there was a auction of 30000 pounds of keyboard that had a start bid of $50... it's not from ebay though

[E3E]

And not a single one was good. I'd laugh--as long as I wasn't the one paying.

[whentheclouds]

don't know anything about architecture, what makes you say the house's design is tasteless? i'm guessing because of the middle section?

[Venatorious]

Not enough sculptures

[evangs]

Looks like a lot of trash, opening bid is way too high


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[whentheclouds]

Not enough sculptures

are you referring to the disturbing lack of garden gnomes

[rowdy]

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.

[kekman]

this is the perfect opportunity to start my dell membrane group buy on /r/mk

[chyros]

Do they use "pounds" in Canada?

[ander]

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?

[Blaise170]

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.

[chyros]

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.

[ThoughtArtist]

This gentleman might be interested:

http://www.likep.com/2011/09/artist-creates-space-shuttle-mosaic.html

[rowdy]

Or this guy:

http://www.homeharmonizing.com/2013/02/19/throne-of-nerds-keyboard-chair-by-mike-dewolfe/

[ander]

LOL—now there's a comfortable-looking piece of furniture.

[rowdy]

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.

[ander]

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.

[katushkin]

Wait, 31 what of keyboards?

[1391406]

$8,500 for 10½ tons of garbage.

[mike52787]

Wait, 31 what of keyboards?

gaylord boxes.

[rowdy]

Wait, 31 what of keyboards?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaylord_(container)

[ander]

It was a close decision between calling them that or "elbow macaroni boxes".

[katushkin]

I read the listing to the guys at work and they all cracked up laughing. I actually can't believe they are called gaylords.

[HoffmanMyster]

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.  )

[ander]

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.