You think you have too much junk?

Think again. This guy better re-think his pricing strategy...

That's a riot... so if I put all my E-waste on a pallet I can sell it? He wants $2.5 Million! ~$10k/pallet

George H.

delusional

NT

"I started collecting buying selling fixing many years ago as a hobby..."

"My Home, Garage, four sheds, Carport, Driveway, front and back yard is full of stuff"

...and it hasn't RAINED on ANY of this kit in ALL that time?

A "scrap" PC -- unless it is something "precious" -- is worth about $10-20. A pallet of PC's is worth maybe $500 (?). A pallet of (reasonably new -- then how did HE come by them?) servers might be worth twice that -- assuming it is a *full* pallet (~4'x4'x4')

Have a gander at what stuff goes for here, in bulk:

I'd be tempted to add up the prices of ALL the lots for one of the "past auctions" to see what a "warehouse full of stuff" sells for... (but, I have more interesting things to do!)

By the looks of some of the stuff, yes!

I get the feeling his wife probably left him. Hence the need for a new house.

Yeah. it's probably Bill Sloman. ;->

He wants $13,888 per pallet of e-waste.

I would say he needs to find better medications...

A perfectly reasonable "want", probably derived from "I need X, I have Y, therefore I want X/Y for each Y". All very logical, if unrealistic.

I'm cautious about making fun of someone with unknown circumstances and problems. "There but for the grace of god go I", and all that.

it's a smorgasboard!!!

Jamie

I've got a fair bit of kit -- stashed in various (creative!) places around the house. But, with few exceptions, it's all "serviceable" or "in use" -- not piles of untested cruft that I'd *hoped* to do something with (e.g., SELL!), "someday". Test equipment purchased over the years for various "one-off" jobs, prototypes, patent-proofs, etc. Plus all sorts of "supplies" (you'd consider a box of spare DVD-R/W's "supplies", wouldn't you? Likewise, a box of SCSI cables, another box of patch cords, etc.? :> )

SWMBO grumbles, pretty regularly. But, perhaps EQUALLY regularly, she needs some-thing for some-reason and I deliver a-thing that will satisfy that-need, in a matter of minutes!

Whew! Another week with THAT "talk" averted!

The guy is a pack rat and doesn't take care of his stuff.

He's dreamin if he thinks he can get even close to that price.

He have to pay someone to haul it off.

I'm sure I offend the occasional right-wing nitwit, but they are quite as offensive in response. I had thought that "extremely offensive" took rather more effort than I bother putting in.

There are some extremely thin-skinned people around, but they wouldn't post here.

Yeah, but that's Australian dollars... ;)

Unvetted ones would pay even more, given it's a simple matter to make an extremely powerful explosive from it!

But not so simple to survive handling the resulting product in any quantity. Fulminate of mercury is touchy stuff, almost in the nitrogen triiodide class.

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

That's why it's used as the (percussion-sensitive) primer in shells, Phil.

Used to be. Not since WW2 at least, iirc.

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

Well maybe I'm a bit out of date on the subject. We used to make that stuff, soak it up in blotting paper, let it dry out, then fire it with pea-shooters at the heads of 10yr old girls we fancied. I should say I was only 10 myself at the time and this was over 50 years ago. I'm not aware any of the girls' hearing was permanently damaged by this unusual form of courtship.

;)

Sure it wasn't nitrogen tri-iodide? All you need for that is ammonia and io dine drops.

Cheers

Phil Hobbs