Anybody have any idea how/where to sell....

[Inferno0032]

I've come upon 1.5 million cardboard cans that didn't meet a company's specifications. They plan on simply throwing them all away in a landfill. I'd guess somewhere someone might be able to make use of them, and since we essentially just have them, they'd be sold very cheap.

A cardboard can is basically the types of cans peanuts would arrive in, for reference.

Perhaps somebody at ATOT has some knowledge of this market?

 

[Krynj]

Cut the tin bottoms off and bring them to a scrap metal yard and get some beer money.

Recycle the cardboard.

 

[theflyingpig]

I'm sure Hamas could find a use for them. Send the cans to Gaza.

 

[Inferno0032]

Already some good ideas! Awesome. The preferable option would be to wholesale to someone, but so far viable options for sure.

 

[2Xtreme21]

Where the hell are you storing 1.5 million cardboard cans?

 

[Jeff7]

American Science and Surplus

Or maybe some place like Ollie's?
(WARNING: The site yells at you if you mouseover anything :roll:, turn down your speakers.)

 

[TruePaige]

Originally posted by: 2Xtreme21
Where the hell are you storing 1.5 million cardboard cans?

Or transporting them! Holy hell the logistics sound like a nightmare, but a fun project.

 

[Inferno0032]

Originally posted by: 2Xtreme21
Where the hell are you storing 1.5 million cardboard cans?

Warehouse, stacked 30 ft high doesn't take up too many Sq Ft.

 

[randomlinh]

i'll buy one.

 

[Inferno0032]

Originally posted by: TruePaige

Originally posted by: 2Xtreme21
Where the hell are you storing 1.5 million cardboard cans?

Or transporting them! Holy hell the logistics sound like a nightmare, but a fun project.

They were already trucked here by the company who owns them. They settled their lawsuit over them and are just planning on throwing them away. If I could find a way to sell them, small profit 1.5 million times turns out nice.

 

[So]

Originally posted by: Inferno0032

Originally posted by: TruePaige

Originally posted by: 2Xtreme21
Where the hell are you storing 1.5 million cardboard cans?

Or transporting them! Holy hell the logistics sound like a nightmare, but a fun project.

They were already trucked here by the company who owns them. They settled their lawsuit over them and are just planning on throwing them away. If I could find a way to sell them, small profit 1.5 million times turns out nice.

This is relevant to this thread:
http://www.break.com/userconte...n-pringles-169072.html

 

[Inferno0032]

Originally posted by: So

Originally posted by: Inferno0032

Originally posted by: TruePaige

Originally posted by: 2Xtreme21
Where the hell are you storing 1.5 million cardboard cans?

Or transporting them! Holy hell the logistics sound like a nightmare, but a fun project.

They were already trucked here by the company who owns them. They settled their lawsuit over them and are just planning on throwing them away. If I could find a way to sell them, small profit 1.5 million times turns out nice.

This is relevant to this thread:
http://www.break.com/userconte...n-pringles-169072.html

Haha, not following🙂

 

[So]

Originally posted by: Inferno0032

Originally posted by: So

Originally posted by: Inferno0032

Originally posted by: TruePaige

Originally posted by: 2Xtreme21
Where the hell are you storing 1.5 million cardboard cans?

Or transporting them! Holy hell the logistics sound like a nightmare, but a fun project.

They were already trucked here by the company who owns them. They settled their lawsuit over them and are just planning on throwing them away. If I could find a way to sell them, small profit 1.5 million times turns out nice.

This is relevant to this thread:
http://www.break.com/userconte...n-pringles-169072.html

Haha, not following🙂

Pringles come in cylindrical cardboard tubes...

 

[Inferno0032]

Originally posted by: So

Originally posted by: Inferno0032

Originally posted by: So

Originally posted by: Inferno0032

Originally posted by: TruePaige

Originally posted by: 2Xtreme21
Where the hell are you storing 1.5 million cardboard cans?

Or transporting them! Holy hell the logistics sound like a nightmare, but a fun project.

They were already trucked here by the company who owns them. They settled their lawsuit over them and are just planning on throwing them away. If I could find a way to sell them, small profit 1.5 million times turns out nice.

This is relevant to this thread:
http://www.break.com/userconte...n-pringles-169072.html

Haha, not following🙂

Pringles come in cylindrical cardboard tubes...

Was not sure if there was more to it or not. 🙂

 

[IronWing]

Ghetto jumping castle?

Burn them?

Dump them in a lake claiming they are zebra mussel traps?

 

[nerp]

Use them as tokens for a huge raffle. $1 per can, plus shipping. Winner gets $500,000. You get $1 million.

blog it and be snarky. act attentionwhorish. hire some dumb chick to con cam-watching losers into thinking they might get laid. Be creative.

 

[Inferno0032]

Originally posted by: nerp
Use them as tokens for a huge raffle. $1 per can, plus shipping. Winner gets $500,000. You get $1 million.

Would that be legal? Haha, if so, that would be awesome. They are coded, so one could be the winning code🙂

Funny idea... pulling it off.... probably not so easy.

 

[So]

Originally posted by: Inferno0032

Originally posted by: nerp
Use them as tokens for a huge raffle. $1 per can, plus shipping. Winner gets $500,000. You get $1 million.

Would that be legal? Haha, if so, that would be awesome. They are coded, so one could be the winning code🙂

Funny idea... pulling it off.... probably not so easy.

Make it a non profit corp. Give yourself a 10% salary, give the company 20% for the cylinders, spend 10% on advertising. If you can raise find a way to secure $500k of insurance to ensure you sell enough cylinders...and give the rest to charity. You'll still be giving like half a million dollars to a children's hospital or something, and you make bank. 🙂

 

[nerp]

Originally posted by: Inferno0032

Originally posted by: nerp
Use them as tokens for a huge raffle. $1 per can, plus shipping. Winner gets $500,000. You get $1 million.

Would that be legal? Haha, if so, that would be awesome. They are coded, so one could be the winning code🙂

Funny idea... pulling it off.... probably not so easy.

You'd probably have to fill out paperwork and register as a lottery. might be illegal in a state with a lottery commission. dunno. good question. A little research would answer the question pretty quickly though.

 

[gorcorps]

Who dropped the ball where to fuck up 1.5million cardboard cans?

 

[Inferno0032]

Originally posted by: gorcorps
Who dropped the ball where to fuck up 1.5million cardboard cans?

Yeah, no kidding, right? One company claims they aren't up to spec, the other says they are. I don't know how the settlement went, but.... they don't care about them any more either way.

 

[IronWing]

Originally posted by: gorcorps
Who dropped the ball where to fuck up 1.5million cardboard cans?

Gringles Potato Chips

 

[Perknose]

Buy 'em yourself.

Print 1.5 million "Obama! Yes We Cans!" stickers.

Get the domain name and sell 'em!

Profit?

 

[Perknose]

Originally posted by: ironwing

Originally posted by: gorcorps
Who dropped the ball where to fuck up 1.5million cardboard cans?

Gringles Potato Chips

No, no, it was Pringles Potato Chimps. They simply didn't go for that monkey business. In fact, they went Ape! 😛

 

[Inferno0032]

Originally posted by: Perknose
Buy 'em yourself.

Print 1.5 million "Obama! Yes We Cans!" stickers.

Get the domain name and sell 'em!

Profit?

They are already "bought." They don't want them, we are getting them at no cost, except the warehouse space they are taking up.

And, as terrible as I'd feel doing something like that, it would probably work.