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[โ€“] [email protected] 20 points 3 years ago (1 children)

Microsoft Windows Vista licences.

[โ€“] [email protected] 17 points 3 years ago (3 children)

Windows 10 laptops with only 4GB of RAM

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 3 years ago

And a slow HDD instead of a SSD.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 3 years ago (2 children)

4GB is too much, I found some Windows 10 laptops with 2GB.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago

haha that's so wrong!

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago

haha that's so wrong!

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago

4gb of ram? No. suitcase laptop from the 1990s but remanufactured so it doesn't have collector's value.

[โ€“] [email protected] 14 points 3 years ago (1 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 3 years ago

All dongles and chargers are out of stock though, sorry.

[โ€“] [email protected] 13 points 3 years ago (1 children)

Same stuff, but it all sits at the back in a storeroom, and customers queue up to ask for items, then you go fetch them, one by one...

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 3 years ago

you are a professional torcherer

[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 3 years ago (1 children)

laptops with glossy screens

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 3 years ago (1 children)

The screens are all just mirrors and the staff pretends they're not.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 3 years ago

Exactly, and it blows my mind that glossy screens on laptops became standard. At least on a desktop monitor you can place it where you don't get glare. The whole point of a laptop is that it's portable and you don't know what light conditions you're going to be using it in.

[โ€“] [email protected] 11 points 3 years ago (1 children)
  • Socks with holes
  • electronics with empty batteries
  • candy with the flavoring removed
  • empty packaging
  • phone cards with no minutes on them
  • trash
[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 3 years ago

electronics with empty batteries

Shh... don't give Apple ideas.

[โ€“] [email protected] 11 points 3 years ago

free beer but paid access to toilets

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 3 years ago

pre-tangled headphones

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 3 years ago

A lightbulb that has to be switched a random number of times before actually being switched

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 3 years ago (1 children)

same stuff, but you have to pay cash and i don't accept the local currency

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 3 years ago

Even better if you accept a hyperinflated currency and use someone who keeps losing count and starting over at the register.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (1 children)

3.2 beer and $10 scratch tickets

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 3 years ago

craft beer shop slash casino? i'm sure some hipsters would love that.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 3 years ago

Shirt stains

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 3 years ago

Used toothbrushes

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 3 years ago (1 children)

not so much what i sell as how i sell it: i only accept Bitcoin and i use years-outdated exchange rates.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago

Only use rates that favor the store in either direction. .90/btc or less for purchases $60000/btc or more for returns.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 3 years ago (1 children)

Keyboards which won't register about 5% of the keypresses and drinks that make you more thirsty than you already were.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 3 years ago

Like silicone keyboards and sunny d?

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 3 years ago
[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 3 years ago

the floor is lava

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 3 years ago (1 children)

You are not allowed to bring any bags and we don't sell any as well

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago

And if you try to leave with unbagged items, the off duty police officer who moonlights as security here will arrest you.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 3 years ago

Hot beer, that is kept in an oven.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 3 years ago

Milk, but only in bags of 50ml cartons that are extra-difficult to open, priced just low enough that you'll be annoyed with yourself for spending more if you buy a larger container elsewhere.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (1 children)

What don't I sell?

My store is 100 stories tall, 25 stories deep, and has the footprint of a major airport. Full of stuff from everywhere and for everyone.

The inventory is all on tracks and shifts around based on your interests/spying on your phone/social media/video and audio surveillance.

You need milk? Go to aisle 237569b on floor 36. By the time you get there, the milk would have moved to aisle 27a on floor 22. The escalators work on reverse consensus- only go the direction the store occupants least want to go. There are no elevators or regular stairs.

If you have any allergies, those items will follow you with more and more agressive advertising.

There are 4 entrences and nobody can exit the way they came in.

The parking lot is the size of Montana and you have to take a train to the roof and go down escalators on the outside of the building to enter at ground level.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 3 years ago

There are 4 entrences and nobody can exit the way they came in.

this is the most important detail, especially if your shop is in a tourist area. there is nothing worse than exiting a store on a huge city block and having no idea where you are

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 3 years ago

The government.