[HN Gopher] Show HN: Berlin Swapfest - Electronics flea market
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Show HN: Berlin Swapfest - Electronics flea market
Hey HN, After scrounging the local classifieds and our version of
Craigslist to find pre-owned equipment and getting frustrated I
decided that there needs to be a flea market but for electronics
tools and homelab stuff. The Berlin Swapfest follows in the same
spirit as the MIT Swapfest! I've partners with a long time hacker
space in Berlin c-base who will be hosting this event! Would love
for local hackers to come by and buy and sell their old gear!
Details on the site!
Author : mirshko
Score : 51 points
Date : 2025-03-01 21:11 UTC (1 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.swapfest.berlin)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.swapfest.berlin)
| nhatcher wrote:
| Woah, this is a great initiative! I hope it works out. I
| regrettably will not be in Berlin that day.
|
| It is really hard to get second hand electronics and equipment in
| this city if you don't want to go online. Sign me up for the next
| one!
| dcminter wrote:
| 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!
| mirshko wrote:
| 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
| saidinesh5 wrote:
| 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!
| mirshko wrote:
| 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.
| ludicrousdispla wrote:
| https://www.willhaben.at/iad/kaufen-und-verkaufen
| progbits wrote:
| 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?
| internet101010 wrote:
| You'll be fine. Worst case scenario have the calculator on your
| phone ready to type in numbers.
| mirshko wrote:
| 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.
| progbits wrote:
| Awesome, thanks!
| herval wrote:
| Berlin is still the ultimate hacker city. Great initiative!
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