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I work with an eWaste company with hundreds of thousands of items in stock, and have decided to start accepting BTC. Our catalog of current materials, which changes every day, is available here: www.kpsurplus.com (http://www.kpsurplus.com)

I generally try to test things for people I know, when I can, before I send them out. Sometimes this isn't possible and sometimes it is. It really depends on what you are looking for. Some items are not going to be available for BTC, specifically items that are being sold for other people and items that require a permit to have (unless you can file a permit).

If you see something you might be interested in, post a link to the item(s) in this thread or send it to me in a PM. I will respond with a quote and will ship within 2 work days on receiving payment.

Feel free to ask questions. I can't lie, I'm super nervous about doing this but I'd love to have a few BTC to play with.

I AM NOW ACCEPTING LITECOIN AS WELL

I always ship with tracking with USPS, unless I am sending freight.

I AM NOT A GENII OR SOMETHING, CHECK THE SITE FOR WHAT YOU ARE SEEKING BEFORE ASKING!

Lets take a little tour of the place, shall we?

This is our current 'to be processed' queue. For the most part everything in this picture is not in the database, which means it is not on the website. This room is about 12k sq feet.

http://i45.tinypic.com/28k20wn.jpg

We use this space to prepare things for surplus removal, such as these TV's. Nobody in the world wants TV's. If anyone wants a box truck full of TV's, even tested working ones, well... you know a guy now. Don't dismiss the old ones with wooden boxes either, there is a growing new business in leasing that kind of equipment out as movie props!

http://i48.tinypic.com/30nf3g7.jpg

We also use this space for queues, such as the 'toner and ink queue' pictured here. This stuff goes to a ton of different places. People buy wholesale lots of used ink to use in trade in programs, some of it is new in package anyway so it can be easily resold, and a few people have even started using some for non-Newtonian fluid experiments. I have been working on a database of ink cart weights empty and full, so I can weigh toner and determine how full it is. Once every 6 months we go through this queue and sort it all by make and model to go to posting.

http://i47.tinypic.com/m7rlfd.jpg

We also use this space to store and sort out already-posted things that are matching, such as these printer/copier paper trays.

http://i46.tinypic.com/a311mg.jpg

Things are picked out of the terrible side of the warehouse for posting, put onto carts and sent to posting. This is where pictures are taken, dust is removed, and items are tested. Our software automatically syndicates new posts onto ebay and other sites, as well as the site you all have a link to.

http://i46.tinypic.com/10ynvqq.jpg

After posting it is given an inventory SKU (the same on the page) and sent to be stored in inventory. There are over 40 isles that look like this.

http://i47.tinypic.com/qpm834.jpg

There it sits until an order comes in, in which case someone will take a cart around and collect everything for the order and then roll the cart with the purchase order attached to the shipping department. Here is shipping.

http://i49.tinypic.com/344qsev.jpg

From there items are sent out on the loading dock by USPS or UPS usually, who come every day to take away the days orders.

I didn't take any images of our office area because I am afraid of catching someones private data, and the office is COVERED with purchase orders and the like with client data on it. I'll keep an eye out for a good time to snap some, but it's just cubicles. Oh, well, here are a few office pics that are kinda neat I guess.....

Hard drives, fresh off the DBAN train and ready to be used.

http://i48.tinypic.com/259btvl.jpg

Tested working LCD's from this week.

http://i48.tinypic.com/21cs191.jpg

We really do get a lot of projectors in, sometimes.

http://i49.tinypic.com/5typmw.jpg

Military Surplus

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/pub?key=0Ak5VzRuCSag2dEtSSXBOaVEyT3JKNHBNTnpnZzlXU3c&output=html Is a link to my Military Surplus Kit inventory.

I could use a pair of 48 port cat5 patch panel or a pair of 24s.

Couldn't really navigate that site in Opera, not going to use IE.

If you want to find and quote me on the above... that'd be great.

Ortronics 24 port telco patch panel OR-808044320 2RU

I can send you two of these: http://www.kpsurplus.com/buy/ortronics_24_port_patch_panel_or_808044482/66923 for 6 BTC, including shipping inside the continental us.

There should be empty room in the box to cram some small things if you need them. Cat5e cables, power cables, etc if you can think of anything you need.

Negative - I need cat5 - not rj11.

You are right, sorry about that. http://www.kpsurplus.com/buy/efs_eia_t568b_24_port_ethernet_patch_panel_npp_1024/42289 is the only ethernet patch panel on the database right now, and there is only one. Give me an hour to hunt around in the warehouse and see what I can find. I'm positive that there is one out there somewhere.

Very cool service.  Hopefully I can support you a bit one day if I need something.

Great service, glad you're bringing BTC in as an option. Pricing seems pretty high for used goods though.

The site looks great. I think you are going to get some business.  :)

Ok, found something close....

Got a Siemon ct-pnl-64 http://www.siemon.com/e-catalog/ECAT_GI_page.aspx?GI_ID=mp_ct-patch-panels

This is a modular 64 port patch panel system. It currently has 23 cat5 angled patch modules (http://www.siemon.com/e-catalog/ECAT_Index_page.aspx?category_id=wa has more) which means it is a 46 port Ethernet patch panel with 9 empty sockets for other connectors.

Here are some pictures!

http://i50.tinypic.com/dcvn5s.jpg
http://i45.tinypic.com/30j4q42.jpg
http://i45.tinypic.com/ydzch.jpg
http://i46.tinypic.com/2eq6lph.jpg
http://tinypic.com/r/11txw9h/6

6btc shipped?

Great service and welcome. I think I could use some stuff you have there, but the fiat prices are a bit higher than I was expecting.

Edit:

Just found some similar items have the same price even if one works and the other doesn't.

Example:

Panasonic POS Touch Screen Cash Register JS-170FR
http://www.kpsurplus.com/buy/panasonic_pos_touch_screen_cash_register_js_170fr/82586

Panasonic JS-170FR Touch Screen Cash Register POS
http://www.kpsurplus.com/buy/panasonic_js_170fr_touch_screen_cash_register_pos/82566

Do you guys price all your items according to a standard or something? Just wanting to buy some stuff in the future and would be nice to know.

Prices are high on some things, sure. I am willing to negotiate on almost any of it, and am VERY willing to negotiate for larger orders. List what you like and see if I can come up with a price you can handle.

edit: Your example is perfect, the price working and nonworking is the same. Many surplus buyers purchase items specifically to repair something they already have, usually taking parts from the surplus replacement. There are multiple parts inside both of those units worth 60-120ish USD each, it being functional is somewhat besides the point. Those cash registers are the exact same make and model that McDonalds uses in some stores.

Not to say that there aren't strange things in the way stuff is priced. Use the prices on the page as a rule of thumb, I have the authority to sell things at whatever prices I see fit so if something isn't appropriate I'll adjust it. eg: I'd sell you one of those, working, for 7btc.  ;)

Nice to hear that, I will definitely buy stuff if that is the case then. Can we PM you here or make the order on site?

PM here, post in this thread. The site won't allow you to pay btc, and I don't plan on automating any kind of BTC processing in the future. I like being able to make a judgment call on each item for now until I feel more comfortable with the ins and outs of using BTC.

There are tons of things that aren't on the site as well, and I think it might even help with 'trust issues' if I make a quick tour through our facility. What do you think?

Totally agree with you. Take your time with BTC and build up your trust from the base up. Make it a digital tour, yeah.
Will keep in touch and good luck with your venture  :)

I'm sorry, I'll have to pass - really just need standard rackmountable compact panel. Thanks for looking tho.

I think if you could get a mtgox 'buy with bitcoin' button on the web site you'd sell lots of stuff.

I need NEMA 17 stepper motors if you have them.

Got any window motors? Jaguar controllers? Spike relays?

Building a robot? haha.

Alrighty! I'll send you a PM when I see a more compact one. We constantly get these kind of panels in, but we also sell them very fast. I am positive I'll find something within the week.


I have NEMA 23 stepper motors that have been driven by a RAMPS board before, by the dozen. They are overkill for a 3d printer, perfect for a CNC mill.  I'll check around for 17's but they are rarer. The 23's all come from thermal printers during demanufacture.

Any interest in linear rails?


Motors of many sorts, including the steppers mentioned ^. No and no on the controller and the relays.


Hey now! Robots are hobby tech now.

How does 1btc each sound? As for shipping, tell me how many you want and I'll get it weighed and I'll come back at you with a shipping cost. Note: they are heavy.

http://www.kpsurplus.com/buy/astrosyn_automation_stepper_motor_drive_23km_k370_07v/65266 <--- these motors

Funny, every single one of these I've sold has gone to Europe.

Edit: Just updated the first post with some pictures of our operation!

Why not?Can you post some pics and quotes?

Thanks.

Please please PLEASE search for 'motor' on the inventory page and link what you are interested in. Pics have already been taken, and a rule of thumb price attached.

ok thanks

I want to revisit this sometime in the future, but I'm not going to do this.

For one, I'm terrified that someone will manipulate the value of BTC one night and I'll end up stuck with an order for 10k USD worth of printers on a skid to be shipped to Germany for like 10BTC or something, with the buyer claiming I'm a scammer for not wanting to go through with it.

I also don't value BTC at 'the most recent price from MtGOX'. I don't care if BTC are going for 30 USD each right now, if the average price over the last few weeks has been 10 then around 10 is what I'm going to value it at.

I cannot imagine opening myself up to potential ruin by allowing an automated BTC system into my business right now. The community has proven to be very scammer-laden and hacker-laden, I don't even find any reason to trust MtGox to not manipulate the market itself for their own whims. The thought of a glitch in MtGox systems allowing people to put PO's in for almost no BTC... and then have the printers in my shipping department kick out the PO's automatically (which our system does when someone pays for an item) means that by the time I catch it dozens of labor hours may have already been wasted.

So, for now, I am not considering doing anything other than what we are doing here. I'm receptive, but critical.

I'm looking at about 50USD for a flat rate international box from USPS. That is.... steep, but if you are willing to pay it....

That's for a medium box. It is only another 10 for a large. If you see more things you want, it might just be worthwhile to cram it full....

Do you purchase and or trade surplus? I have some items that I'm looking to sell in a bulk package. I'm also within a drivable distance if I made a day out of it.

We do, but it has to be a really really good price or something a client is looking for. PM me what you have/are talking about and I'll see what we can do.

I just got 15 dual core Lenovo R61 laptops in. I'll have them refurbished and ready for sale by the end of the week. Is there any interest for one on here? If so, I'd let 3 of them go for BTC....

I shot you a couple PMs with most of the information. In the mean time you get a free bump.  ;)

Yes, what do you have for linear drives? I'm really interested.

Hm, as a business owner, would it make you feel better if there was a service doing conversion to fiat at time of purchase? If that's something you've be more interested in... I'm sure someone might be able to point you in the direction of such a service... if not I might just have to design one for you. =P

In theory, sure, though at that point I might as well just stick to USD. My problem isn't with holding BTC it's making sure I decrease my risk to strange market manipulations in the middle of the night. If I had an automated BTC system I'd want it to value BTC at the weekly average, with a manual approval required to update every week. In theory that's what I'd like to use but only experience will teach me what I need.

Other than not trusting any of the exchanges, I also value BTC (for now) differently for shipping costs and product. For product I'm valuing BTC at around 10USD but for shipping I'm cutting this in half. For 30 dollars worth of product that costs 20 dollars worth of shipping I'd charge 7BTC.

I'm looking to collect BTC in the hopes that later I can find people who will take it for labor trades. Graphics design, web design, sales calling, voice acting, and other remote services are all likely BTC paid candidates. We also use Tradebank in order to gain labor and service trade with local businesses and we get more than a little trade from it. I'm trying to view it like that.

Anyone else on here use Tradebank?

I just got something in that I thought some of you might be interested in.

10 Antique IBM Type M keyboards:

http://i49.tinypic.com/2z7ptva.jpg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02og1nUSI8A

These are the base keyboards for almost all steampunk keyboard mods (such as the datamancer keyboards), and are frankly awesome. They range from 1987 to 1994 models.

Anyone interested? I'm still in the process of cleaning out the insides, testing all keys, and taking images of each. I'll post them here when I'm done. Usually I just throw these on ebay when I find them but..... bitcoin!

Do you own or work for this company?  Also, really cool.  I'm definitely going to come here when I need something.

I sort of understand - sort of, no  I guess I really don't understand. What makes you think you're going to be able to sell product when you're undervalueing btc by 12% ? Its like charing me extra to pay with btc. In this scenario I'd rather pay your retail price in fiat and hold onto my btc.

That being said - if your goal is to collect btc in the hopes of using it to pay for services later --- then you shouldn't care about market manipulations - because even if the price is manipulated by say +50% when someone buys from you... on a long enough time-line it will increase in value to the point where you can trade/sell it above the manipulated price.

My advice would be this - Set a limit on dollar amount of purchases in BTC. Make it small enough that you'd feel comfortable with the risk (read: shorter time to recovery value if there's market manipulation)... and automate the purchase process. That way sales can trickle in --- and you don't have to mess with each one =P

This isn't what you are looking for probably, but....

The linear rail system from inside most inkjet printers is removable from the printer as a complete assembly. This includes tensioning, stepper mount, rails (usually with cotter pin), belts, and the like. I have around 80 matching pairs pulled already. I'm about to start testing the motors to see if I can drive them with a RAMPS board. If I can, I feel VERY confident that a 3d printer can be built with a few pairs. I almost think you can get away with making inkjet cart adapters to put at the end of the X axis rails to attach to the Y axis rails.

I'll post some images of what I'm talking about later today when I get into the shop. I'm not as interested in selling those as I am getting them to other devs that might want to poke around with a few pairs.

I also run into linear rail bearings sometimes, though I haven't in a while. I'll take a look around and see if anything stands out. I also find EXCEPTIONAL linear rail systems inside some tape jukeboxes and large format plotters.

Personally, especially for building mills, I am a HUGE fan of the HBLB-34 design http://www.buildyouridea.com/cnc/hblb/phase8/phase8.html for a DIY solution. I built a few of these back when I owned an aluminum foundry and was EXTREMELY pleased with the results. I know that wasn't what you asked for but I had a sudden urge to nerd out about DIY rail bearing systems.


I do sales for them, though in this BTC experiment I'm pretty much on my own. I do shipping and handling of sales I make, personally. This is part of the reason that my orders take a week or so to get out the door, I test everything I sell myself personally. This means I am a semi-professional power cable hunter 80% of the time.

I'm also really really suprised that nobody has asked about any of the electrical equipment. There are new in box electrical sub panels, industrial breakers, 20 amp special grade receptacles, etc etc; I just kinda expected to get hit with more requests than I have. Not upset about it, just surprised.


Firefop : still mulling over my reply, I understand what you are saying and I agree tentatively. My largest concern is that I just cannot use BTC to cover any of my overhead, ESPECIALLY shipping. I'll sell you almost anything off that page for around 50-70% listed price in USD, and in a way I AM charging a premium for taking BTC. This may not be fair but, again, I'm terrified of BTC. I'd accept face value BTC at current price if I could get purchasers to pay USD for shipping, gladly. Still.... considering. Because I don't plan on 'cashing out' my BTC I'm somewhat insulated from market manipulations... except for the cash overhead in shipping costs.


 :-\ ...................maybe

If you have a modded Wii, and you want to rip original Wii game disks to ISOs for burning, this guy will be a good source of the short list of DVD drive models that can do it.
LG -8164b
* LG-8163b
* LG-8162b
* LG-8161b

A quick search revealed about 30 units from this list available. doesn't matter what the letters (HL, LG, GDR, GRD, whatever), you're looking for 816xb where x is a 1 2 3 or 4.

;-)

Whoa. I checked for xbox360 compat drives but not wii.

1btc each!

\/ They really are quite lovely to work on, though they make a hell of a racket.  ;D

For anyone interested in steampunk keyboard mods with these, check out http://steampunkworkshop.com/keyboard.shtml

mmmm IBM "Indestructibles"....i still have a couple of those. I love that clackity-clack sound when I'm pounding away at a particularly anger-filled facebook rant.

If i didn't already have an 8164b somewhere in my office, i'd maybe buy one...or not, actually, since I'm selling my entire wii bundle off (bought a condo, getting married...) but yeah, they ain't the fastest, but they are the only models of drives found by the Afterdawn community to consistently rip wii discs error-free.

Hm - looks like we might find a middle ground.

How about - 95% of usd cost on site... paid in btc... (marketed as a "5% discount for purchasing with btc) - and then the customer (in this case me) pays full shipping cost using fiat (credit card or paypal or whatever you'd prefer).

What I've suggested above could be integrated into the website to allow automated purchases. You'd effectively get the BTC upfront and then post a bill for the shipping (after you've assembled and weighed the package of course) - you'd be more protected this way. and would also be able to turn a better profit.

I could do that. I'm going to wait it out a few months and see if taking BTC for surplus is worth the hastle, and if I start getting more orders than I can process by hand I'll try to do something more automated.

Honestly my current concern is the lack of sales. If I don't make 10BTC+/month in sales I'm not going to bother with it.

I saw this picture in one of the FPGA threads :
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8160/7640242770_1e31685112_c.jpg

Do people want a few cases like this? I can put together some frames, gutted. I'm surprised everyone is using commercial hubs for this stuff too. They DO make enterprise grade USB equipment.

Hell, I'd love to build an actual server rack up to run a gob of ASIC or FPGA equipment. I probably have the kit laying around to knock a few of them out within a week. Golly, I'd even spraypaint it custom for a fee.

The build quality on those BFL machines is absolute garbage. I might put kits together of replacement fans and send it out to folks so they have them in anticipation. We literally have over 10,000 fans laying around of various sizes. Nice ones, usually. As a person who professionally destroys multi-thousand dollar enterprise computer equipment, sometimes, I can say that those 30k dollar units are in now way commercial grade. "USB powered from the PC" is like someone speaking in tounges, it is so alien.


hmmmmmm :-X

Do you happen to have enterprise grade USB hubs laying around?

I'll look around tomorrow, actually. 'Enterprise Grade USB' is probably a shitton of high end usb controller cards in a server with a backplane covered in ports. A 'usb hub' is some scrub-tier consumer garbage that I wouldn't count on for my livelihood at any cost. Boggles the mind!

Another thing ya'all might be into, we have literally thousands of power supplies. I'd sell most of em for 1btc each. Get a few bigger power supplies, you don't want to run 'em over 70% (hell even 50% is kinda crazy) capacity consistantly. (PS, Server power supplies are awesome)

Also, does ANYONE do powerline monitoring? I've got a 208 powerstrip that actually has a webserver with an rj-45 port, this allows network monitoring of power draw from each outlet. Even remotely. I'd almost say that if I owned any amount of a serious mining operation I'd want power monitoring available.

dang it - you keep sucking my back in with your 'real hardware' arguement.

Yes Quote me on that 208v w/management and one of those massive rack cases. And some weight in patch cables or cable fragments...

Do you have any low RPM alternators? Say 100RPM-200RPM or so?

I'd sell you a rack mount housing and a monitored PDU for 180USD, but it's big enough to require freight shipping. Where are you, regionally? I could be enticed to deliver it....

At that price I'd load it up with patch cables, power cables, fans, wire management brackets, mount the PDU, and throw some more goodies in there. I could probably find a working rack mount APC backup unit, I'd throw that in if you wanted to buy a 1u-2u server for 100-200 bucks. I also have a 4u RAID array that takes 16 sata hard drives if, you know, you are into that kinda thing.

I'll get you an exact make and model from the PDU tomorrow so you can check out the specs, it's not on the webpage it's in my personal kit. Because it is awesome.

Sorry, I don't think so.

Update about the USB hubs: I didn't see anything after a quick look. I don't see why you couldn't just use a patch panel and run them via serial port though.

Thanks for looking capn. I will go a different way. :)

So you come to these forum to promote your products in exchange for btc, but you value btc as a second class currency ? Sorry, but I will not buy from you, good luck either. 

http://www.apc.com/resource/include/techspec_index.cfm?base_sku=AP7862&tab=features

That is the specific pdu i have for sale.

Great, bookmarked your site.
I see great growth potential in your business.

I hope so, I've made exactly 0.0000 BTC so far.  :-[

Do I really have to sell scrap wire derivatives or have some kind of electrical supply ponzi? Such a strange market....

Holy hell, the hours I'd loose just wandering around a place like this...

I'm making a note to come by if I ever come down so far south.

In the meanwhile, I'll be keeping an eye out for various things server cluster related.

We have none, I just confirmed. I have been told where I might find some, will advise.

I do have something new to announce!


Military Surplus Stuff!

I just picked up a lot of military surplus stuff, mostly clothing. I'll be inventorying it and figuring out what I have shortly, but it's all available! Sadly all of it seems to be small and medium, but I'll know shortly for sure.

Most of the lot.
http://i48.tinypic.com/vyljer.jpg

http://i45.tinypic.com/35au7ox.jpg

http://i47.tinypic.com/ogdfrt.jpg

http://i46.tinypic.com/t50xo9.jpg

http://i46.tinypic.com/2hxy2b8.jpg

http://i48.tinypic.com/67hy0x.jpg

http://i48.tinypic.com/25hz76r.jpg

http://i47.tinypic.com/1xz49g.jpg

I am taking a large lot of equipment to Boston in a few weeks and can do deliveries along the way if anyone wants to order some large things and save on shipping.

Also, a couple of rack mount line conditioners came in http://www.kpsurplus.com/buy/panamax_max_1000_surge_protector_line_conditioner_8_outlet/87110

Alrighty! It's been long enough and I've received 0.0000btc via orders from this posting. I'm going to go ahead and close up shop and go back to good ole USD. I don't know if it's a trust issue or a hoarding issue, but there just doesn't seem to be a demand here for surplus electrical and data center equipment.

Cutoff time for orders accepting BTC is going to be Friday the 26th, in case anyone was planning on ordering but waiting for a better time. Pro's don't close up shop without notice, no matter what.  ;)

This is a shame. If I was in the US I would buy stuff from your store with BTC.

Surprisingly, I had numerous offers to buy international but the shipping cost kinda requires a LARGE order to make it worth while. If I could international ship cheaply I'm positive I would have closed on at least 3 orders.

Final inventory of Military Surplus : https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/pub?key=0Ak5VzRuCSag2dEtSSXBOaVEyT3JKNHBNTnpnZzlXU3c&output=html

By any chance do you have any 20 inch widescreen LCDs? I'd prefer acer x203H if you have it but any others would be fine.

Seller is a SomethingAwful goon, so there's a high chance of trolling or trying to scam. Add him to your list off possible scamers and ignore him please
http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3486823&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=146#post408053807

A troll or scammer? Don't think so, and you seem like an asshole for trying to make those accusations. He seems to be expressing the same frustrations I feel dealing with the community of "clearnet" BTC users.

Then again he's trying to market items, the bulk of which is obsolete and priced above the current going rate elsewhere, to a tiny potential BTC customer base. And the reality is that it's very tough to profitably sell late-model tech online (ebay, etc), even if you're getting paid to dispose of it. I had to give up doing it in bulk 10 years ago. Too much competition and not enough buyers, so the prices fall quickly. If anything, you have to focus on the cream of the crop. It's frustrating wading through a "catalog" website that only has maybe 5% of it's inventory that's actually appealing to potential buyers out there. If I was the OP and I had stuff like that coming in constantly and wanted to sell the stuff that's not popular online, I would focus my efforts into opening a thrift/surplus store type of operation with low pricing so you could turn over as much stuff as possible. Then again, it might be cheaper just to recycle or throw it out these days.

I'm saying that while BTC-spending buyers here can be extremely demanding, it's mostly the fact that there's hardly anyone domestically who's interested in buying the OP's stuff period. And the people who can market this kind of stuff in other countries, who don't find 5 year-old technology so disposable, understandably want it as close to free as possible.

On the SA forum, it's quite clear that he (along with everyone else there) thinks that Bitcoin is a joke and BTC users are a bunch of idiots who will fall for any scam. Not only does that make me think that he is not serious about delivering, and may just be trolling the users here, but even if he is genuinely interested in selling, fuck him for his opinions and contempt, and fuck his whole business. If customers are OK with buying from someone who thinks so poorly of them, that's their problem, but at least they should know it.

Bitcoin bans Something Awful?!
Da fuck do we care about their opinions lol. Their opinions are a dime a dozen, if we don't like those they have others. We have the money. End of story.

Not saying ban them, just don't trust thus guy. Really, don't trust anyone associated with SA, since they are actively working on coming up with scams to use against bitcoiners. Yes, we have the money. Just make sure they don't.

One problem is clearly price. 

http://www.kpsurplus.com/category/home-garden?page=3

Most of these items are going for prices above new and they are not new.  Why would I buy a used toggle switch from you for $5.99 when it is at the home depot new for $2?

Sounds like you two have history.

Us two? None at all. SA in particular? Somewhat. I dated an SA goon a while ago (before there was SA even), we are still (very) close friends, he's fairly well set up in the SA forums, fills me in on a lot, and lately I've been trolling them on and off (mostly off). Know your enemy and all that, and considering I like things like Bitcoin, furry fandom, and SecondLife, they are definitely not a friendly bunch to me (except for the closet cases who want to fuck me ::)) If I come across something questionable on their forums, I'll report it here, that's all.

I've tried to buy 3 times from him on this thread - the first time he wanted to 'value bitcoins' at 75% of market value. The second I offered to pay the price listed on the site in bitcoin valued near market and and additionally pay the shipping via creditcard, but while he at first seemed interested... no quote for the shipping was ever delivered. The third time I received no response at all.

My personal conclusion - guy probably doesn't have authority to sell negotiate prices for this business... and thus can't make a fair deal. It implies that he was hoping we'd allow him to undervalue bitcoins so he could recover his retail costs + profit on that 25%.

Prices are high, sure. I consistently quote around half of the price on the inventory page to 75%. The toggle switch covers quoted above are overpriced, yes, and I'd include many of them for free on a larger order. Want some? I'll do you a 2 bucks each, which is a great price considering those are stainless steel lab/kitchen grade and not cheap plastic covers for 2 bucks each.  I just checked and found em new for 3.99 at HD http://www.homedepot.com/h_d1/N-5yc1v/R-202655367/h_d2/ProductDisplay?catalogId=10053&langId=-1&keyword=3+gang+stainless+steel&storeId=10051 and the inventory item linked on our inventory page is also new and sealed. My 25% undervalue is inconceivable but your 50% undervalue is fine?  ::)

Firefop never offered to pay USD directly, at least I didn't think so, but if you want that deal for the previously quoted items I'll do you cash for the offered deal of 50% off list price plus shipping. You stopped responding to me, I don't ignore actual clients. You want a quote, I'll get it to you within the next 24 hours.

As for being a goon, guilty on all charges. If you want to link a thread for 'evidence' you might want to try http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3495965 which is an almost exact duplicate of this thread here. In that thread I have successfully made over a grand in sales with numerous goons for fiat with positive feedback. In a way it's funny that some of you folks seem to be missing that the SA forums work almost entirely off of reputation, successfully, in a way that game-able automated systems such as OTC cannot replicate. If you are a member check out the store feedback threads and see that there are literally 50x more positive feedback posts than negative posts, a ratio that these forums here should envy.

As a seller I can say that being outed as a scammer by the goons, even scamming people from here, would be a huge blow against my reputation here, there, and almost everywhere else online.  Goons are often the morality police, eager to hunt out immoral behavior wherever they find it; and I'm one of them. They also have a sense of community that bleeds out to every corner of the internet, being on the SA shitlist isn't enviable for anyone. Unlike here. The goons are your bitcoin police. Get it?

eWaste is a dying industry, yes. Printers, ink, and desktop machines are out, but commercial datacenter equipment is still in high demand.  Frankly, I assumed that folks over here would be most interested in PDU's, fans, rack mount housings, and other data-center like equipment since a ton of the community here seem to be cargo culting datacenters in ya'alls basements.

Don't put your computers outside, block airflow for fans, and for gods sakes do cable management. I'd go so far as to offer consulting services but I assume I'd end up very very sorry for the offer.

I'm actually pro-crypto currencies, which is why this thread is here, but I'm pretty anti-bitcoin culture as it appears on this forum. Ya'all got me fucked up.

Welp,

I can assure you that Capn Noe is an honest and karmicly balanced individual worthy of your trust.

That might be closer to the truth than you'd think. If I remember correctly Rassah was mercilessly teased for his choice in pornographic furniture across multiple forums and wiki's. I might be wrong, but if that's true I could understand his 'us vs them' stance.


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This kind of thing is hilarious. Your moderation team is actually participating in business here in nefarious ways but ya'all can't get gimmick accounts in check.  DANK is still spewing bullshit, and he's an actual troll account but nooooo.... lets go after THIS guy.

So, you don't like SA because they generalize. Then you go on to say that ALL of the thousands of SA members are scammers without heart or creativity.

You have no idea what you are talking about, but you are quite positive you are right. Right about objective things like the 'production of art' and the 'having of dreams', to boot!

The irony! THE IRONY!

I'm now somewhat convinced that dank isn't a goon at all, but is the guy with the dick-table. I'm on the edge of my seat to find out.

I am generalizing that all the SA goons who are regulars on the Bitcoin threads, which includes you, are scammers, sure.

Make your scam accusation thread