Bad bulk buys
8Today's story on the product page fills me with regret for a purchase I made recently. I ordered 2400 card sleeves to get the best return on the price per sleeve (and since free shipping needed an expensive order) when a third of that number was all I needed. I might eventually find a use for all of them.
Anyone else find themselves falling victim to similar problem of trying to just capitalize on a "good deal" knowing full well you only need a fraction of what you are buying?
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Printer paper from Costco. 6 cases. 5,000 sheets per case. I have no idea why I did this, I ordered it a year ago and I'm still on the first case.
@Collin1000 is the paper any good? because I have seen some shitty printer paper
@WilhelmScreamer Yes, it's good paper, has never jammed my printer yet. I just have.... a lot of it.
Nope, but I do want more stories :)
This one time me and some friends bought thousands and thousands of JBL speaker docks.
@shawn well friday is coming up
@WilhelmScreamer do you still have any of those? I might actually be able to use the other 1600.
@harrison those are good-ass sleeves too (hyphenated because they're not ass-sleeves)
@Lotsofgoats
@harrison They are in the mail right now so I don't know. But @Lotsofgoats is correct in that these are [damn fine sleeves][1] [1]: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvqw7t0kbGX9ZlOrr9sqD8zGGPuEIfeBz
@harrison What are they for? Tabletop game cards or some other sort of card that needs protecting?
@bruceoite Tabletop games, they fit standard (magic, pokemon, FFG games and others) cards there's a list on boardgame geek of what games can use them.
I ordered 16 oz. of bay leaves, only doing the math in my head of $/oz., and forgetting to think through what 16 oz. really is. When the Amazon box arrived, I was puzzled as to what I had ordered that was so large, and why the box smelled so good.
@brhfl I thought the 1/2 oz. bag of bay leaves I bought because of price was a huge amount, so can imagine what 64 times that amount would look like!
@gio Like a wonderfully fragrant mylar king-sized pillow…
@brhfl Make a bay leaf wreath! http://www.marthastewart.com/952038/how-make-bay-laurel-wreath-holidays Of course, Martha has done this with her impeccable Martha style.
I bought 500 misprinted pens from a printing company in January of 2013 for about $35. I kept losing pens at my old job and the company would never buy more, so I figured these would last me awhile. Little did I know that they would last me forever. Even having dumped a ton of them in someone's Fukubukuro, I still probably have two or three hundred, and now I never even use pens.
@Moose not a bad problem to have. My friends keep stealing mine.
@Moose what company did you order the pens from, im interested in buying some bulk pens
@Moose My six pounds of pens from Graveyard Mall. They are dried up- everyone of them.
@communist I bought them from a third party seller through Sears.com that I can't find anymore. This link seems like a pretty good set, and of course Amazon has no shortage of bulk pen options. I just weighed my box as it is, and it is still 5.2 pounds of pens.
@sammydog01 @Moose I've bought the same box of pens... I think it was the same Graveyard Mall deal. Mine still work, though.
I may have used maybe 2% of the box. Maybe.
@djslack I need to look up how to fix dried up pens- maybe there is hope. Some of mine have a nice rubbery grip.
I went to Iowes once and they were selling all leftover Christmas items for $0.01
This included cases of gutter hooks, ornament hooks, Christmas tree stands, and rope light hooks. I spent less than $5.00 and ended up with hundreds of pounds of stuff I would end up never using, including dozens of metal and plastic tree stands and tens of thousands of gutter hooks. It was enough to fill the entire 8 foot bed of a pickup truck as well as the entire backseat and passenger seat. After selling about $200 worth on Ebay (not even 5% of it) and giving away as much of it as I could, it just wasn't worth the hassle anymore. I still have some of it, but left most in the last house when I moved.
Some jackass site shitassdeals.com had some Built NY neoprene cases in bulk. Stupid me bought a bunch. About 1/3 are in use, still giving them out.
Hi, my name is @connorbush and I am a unnecessary bulk buyer....(hi @connorbush says the group).
I purchased: 72 cups of butter coffee http://www.coffeeblocks.com/collections/all/products/72-pack
then: a month of frozen food
http://www.personaltrainerfood.com/orders/snBLD7.php?menu=&menupage=true
also: three months of protein chip snacks that I had never tried and they ended up being horrible.
Also, the neoprene cases from shitassdeals.com
There are certainly many more instances of this; however, I do not currently recall all of them. Perhaps I crafted a mental block.
@connorbush the real question is why you ordered more than 0 units of butter coffee
@Lotsofgoats My old roommate was one of them there fancy cross-fit people and got me all hyped up on Coconut oil and such. I rationalized the monetary savings of combining my breakfast and coffee into a convenient frozen sphere that I melt, shake, and drink.
@connorbush 'twas not so rational after-the-fact
"That's a good price on 12 pounds of nutmeg."
I feel like @troy has some good stories to fit in here, considering this picture he sent me literally yesterday:
@JonT looks like @troy's gonna be getting all swolled up
@JonT Do you even lift, bro? I actually bought 3 jugs of brotein, but GNC screwed up and sent me 6. Ecommerce error in my favor, collect 3 extra jugs! I normally buy brotein as an enticement to work out and actually use it... last time I bought 1 jug and I let it expire. So this time I bought 3 to REALLY get me in gear. Yeah, that'll work...
@troy this tale.... it is my life.
I just got a box of 10 flashlights that were too cheap to pass up.
My sweetie is so pissed she keeps reminding me where she's going to put them.
@2many2no hmm flashlight gets put into people.. flEshlight gets people put into it... it all makes sense now.
I bought the pack of 30 tablet cases here on meh several months ago. Since I don't have a kindle fire (95% of the cases) I still have 30 tablet cases on my shelf.
@fredboy I gifted mine to the world. Thought of sewing them into a wet suite; however, I do not sew.
@fredboy Take them to any place where nurses hang out; hospitals, doctor's offices, they will make them dissappear in an instant. Don't know why, it just happens. I speak from experiance.
@wilhelmscreamer for KMC not bad. at least it's not the cheap ones with scantly clad Japanese Lolita on them. As I get older they get creepier plus they don't stand up to the abuse that KMC can.
Military commissaries hold case sales twice a year. We can't resist, buying cases of Kraft Mayo at a cost of 90 cents each. Cases of Cheese Nips at 60 cents a box. And so forth and so forth. Then we gift it all to neighbors and friends. They seem to like this tradition.
@Teripie I need those cheese nips, all of them
alliteration.
@connorbush Gotta love it.
An online website once published the wrong prices on their site, posting a case of 20 hard drives for the single-drive price (in the era of 4GB and 8GB drives). I bought 10 cases of hard drives.
They got the last laugh - after a year, nearly EVERY drive from that batch suffered catastrophic mechanical failures, causing a lot of data loss and restores of backups.
@chuegen Were they IBM Deskstars? Might not have been an accident.
@brhfl I'm gonna guess they were Segates, they are piling up like bricks.
@thismyusername Maxtors, prior to their acquisition of Quantum and before Seagate acquired them..
@chuegen rip them open for their magnets. The disk platters can also be interesting decor or craft items.
@thismyusername I used to pretty much solely buy Seagate, then I had two failures nearly back-to-back… Not mechanical or even related to the platters, but the traces on the PCB were all corroded, there was no hope of interfacing platter to computer. Pulled all my other drives, and all the other Seagates were looking pretty nasty as well… the older Hitachis and WDs looked fine.
@brhfl Yea I remember the old days, they were solid... lately... https://www.backblaze.com/blog/what-hard-drive-should-i-buy/
@thismyusername my seagate destroyed roughly 8000 songs I had stored on it. Bastards.
@thismyusername fun fact, WD just bought hitachis' hdd business
Because I "keep paleo" to avoid the wheat & soy flours (stupid allergies), I bought 25 pounds of almond flour from Honeyville.com. It was a screaming good deal for high quality blanched almond flour, but damn! It arrived in one enormous bag. I was vac packing that stuff for hours to shove it in the freezer.
@LaVikinga by any chance would you want to meet up and buy my butter-coffee? http://www.coffeeblocks.com/collections/all/products/72-pack
@LaVikinga ha! I have a hard time going through the 5lb bags i buy from them. Also love their freeze dried blueberries
@connorbush I love butter and I love coffee, but never in the same cup. (Said the woman who once buttered bacon and proclaimed it "actually not bad at ALL!"")
I bought a case of 1000 bunn coffee filters for home because it was the same price on amazon as 250 would be in the 100 count boxes. i brew coffee on average once per week. (i french press, espresso, vcup, and make instant depending on my mood) my filters will most likely outlast my coffee maker :(