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Re: Show HN: Berlin Swapfest – Electronics flea market

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Nice website design - with the tearaway papers to download... Would love to see a follow-up on what interesting items were brought there... Good luck!

That was our designers idea! Will pass on the nice words. Also will try to have someone taking photos to document it.

Our event person at c-base ligi also suggested to idea of having a small show and tell time permitting for really cool items that have a story to them.

Re: Show HN: Berlin Swapfest – Electronics flea market

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I've always wondered about the risk of expensive-to-dispose-of bulky waste ending up on site if the sellers can't sell - looks like you've taken account of that with the deposit system already though. Hope it goes really well!

Thanks!

Yeah c-base crew was incredibly adamant about that, they used to have people leaving stuff there or bringing them electronics, they’ve got closets of switches.

As you said the deposit will handle it, worst case if someone brings a 19” rack that will be used to bring it to the tip

Re: Show HN: Berlin Swapfest – Electronics flea market

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Nice! Might travel to Berlin for this. Any idea how non-german-speaker friendly this will be? The hackerspace website is german only, but I'm hoping we can expect most attendees / sellers to speak english?

I’m an English native with A2 German at best and have no troubles there! A majority of events are in English there, one tonight was all in English as well.

Awesome, thanks!

Re: Show HN: Berlin Swapfest – Electronics flea market

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Related events in other cities? To start: * US Boston / New England area -- MIT Swapfest, http://w1mx.mit.edu/flea-at-mit/

That’s where I got the idea! I was blown away at how cool that event was, I emailed with their team to get some tips for it as well.

The coolest part was someone brought a Gemini lander to sell!

Re: Show HN: Berlin Swapfest – Electronics flea market

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Related events in other cities? To start: * US Boston / New England area -- MIT Swapfest, http://w1mx.mit.edu/flea-at-mit/

Once at an MIT swapfest, I paid someone half price for a camera to “hold it” because I didn’t have the entire amount they wanted in cash, and they wouldn’t take Venmo. I never got the camera or any money back because he basically gave me the run around. Silly me believes in being virtuous in casual transactions.
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