Buy your own commemorative WOW server on eBay :)

[ultimatebob]

I thought this was funny... Blizzard is decommissioning their old WOW blade servers, and you can buy one signed from eBay. Check it out:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&&item=190624641695

Hey, at least the money goes to charity. I wonder if the hardware still works... maybe I could part out the CPU, memory, and hard drive and make a profit off of this

 

[Newbian]

Make sure to bump the thread so we see how much it goes for.

 

[pontifex]

says non-working hardware...

 

[sygyzy]

$116 to ship $18 pounds from Paris, France.

 

[ultimatebob]

says non-working hardware...

I found a review from a guy who bought one of these... they remove the hard drives, but they leave the CPU's and the memory in the blades. From the pictures, it looks like most of the memory slots are full.

So... What does 2 2007 era Xeon processors and 6 to 8 GB of ECC memory go for nowadays?

 

[Dumac]

If I was into WoW, I'd want it.

 

[I Saw OJ]

They have a US Mal'Ganis up for sale?

 

[ultimatebob]

I thought about it a bit more... and realized that these will never be collectible because they're releasing 2,000 of them. Besides, WOW isn't nearly as popular as it used to be.

 

[zokudu]

I thought about it a bit more... and realized that these will never be collectible because they're releasing 2,000 of them. Besides, WOW isn't nearly as popular as it used to be.

2,000 servers. 10m active subscriptions. How is that not collectible?

 

[ultimatebob]

2,000 servers. 10m active subscriptions. How is that not collectible?

Because it will never be "rare". People will be trying to unload these on eBay for years when their spouses make them do spring cleaning, and they'll probably sell for less for what they're paying for them now.

 

[M0oG0oGaiPan]

If you're looking at it as a collector's item you should be thinking long term. Aren't there people that collect voodoo video cards?

 

[PowerYoga]

I found a review from a guy who bought one of these... they remove the hard drives, but they leave the CPU's and the memory in the blades. From the pictures, it looks like most of the memory slots are full.

So... What does 2 2007 era Xeon processors and 6 to 8 GB of ECC memory go for nowadays?

standard operating procedure for decomissioning servers. Our company does the same, they shred the hard drives in some crazy thing on top of that but donates the broken servers.

 

[pontifex]

Because it will never be "rare". People will be trying to unload these on eBay for years when their spouses make them do spring cleaning, and they'll probably sell for less for what they're paying for them now.

Please reread what you just typed and think about it...


how is someone that buys a WoW Commeorative server going to find a spouse?

 

[Rakewell]

Please reread what you just typed and think about it...


how is someone that buys a WoW Commeorative server going to find a spouse?

LOL

I was thinking the same thing.

 

[lupi]

If they didn't sell out around blizzcon wonder what makes them tthink this will do it

 

[ultimatebob]

$116 to ship $18 pounds from Paris, France.

Yeah... the shipping costs are totally killing my "scavenge them for parts and resell those on eBay" plan.

 

[ultimatebob]

If you're looking at it as a collector's item you should be thinking long term. Aren't there people that collect voodoo video cards?

There are, but crazy stuff like the 3dfx VooDoo 5 6000 prototypes are actually worth something to collectors because only a handful are available. There are only 2 or 3 in the world that actually work, as opposed to 2,000.

 

[Bryf50]

It would be cool to own for 100 bucks but the shipping kills it.

 

[JamesV]

If the shipping cost wasn't ridiculous, and they had the servers I played on, I'd buy one of those. Even though I don't play the game anymore, that is one cool piece of gaming history.

Christ, people pay $100+ for collectors editions of games that come with plastic helmets and tiny metal statues... $100+ for a real WoW server made into a display piece is a bargain in comparison.

 

[ultimatebob]

Only 40 minutes left... if you want it, bid now!

 

[Joseph F]

Am I the only one bothered here by the fact that they don't list specs on these?

 

[greenhawk]

Am I the only one bothered here by the fact that they don't list specs on these?

they are ment to be dead IIRC from reading somewhere. So specs are meaningless. It is for the bit of plastic on the front saying which area it looked after.

 

[Maximilian]

Am I the only one bothered here by the fact that they don't list specs on these?

Nope i wanted to know the specs as well.

 

[ultimatebob]

Nope i wanted to know the specs as well.

Supposedly, server blades with this HP model came with 2 single core Xeons about 3.2 GHz in speed, and 6-8 GB in memory.

$350 shipped is way too much for a glorified non-functioning display model, though.

 

[pontifex]

hahaha $222.50. I bet that isn't what they expected.