Wait, so cheese posties is a paper sack with a recipe card?
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Saturday, 26 September 2015 21:35 (nine years ago) link
garbage pail kids for a new generation
― qualx, Saturday, 26 September 2015 21:52 (nine years ago) link
This isn't exactly the right thread, but I don't know if there's another thread for examples of startup culture doing overpriced wheel-reinvents:
https://floyddetroit.com/products/the-floyd-platform-bed?utm_source=facebook+&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=bed-target
$435 for three pieces of pressboard and some braces/brackets. A new apex.
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Friday, 8 January 2016 21:57 (eight years ago) link
At least the money's going to Detroit.
― nickn, Friday, 8 January 2016 22:02 (eight years ago) link
I mean hey, they deliver it to your house.
― pizza rolls are a food that exists (silby), Saturday, 9 January 2016 00:08 (eight years ago) link
It's designed for urban living. That's gotta be worth at least $300 by itself.
― hardcore dilettante, Saturday, 9 January 2016 01:03 (eight years ago) link
My wife got me a Caffe Vita coffee subscription. It's only one 12oz bag per month, but since I only brew at home on weekends, it should cover a decent chunk of the month. If I was going to get a tea one I'd be tempted to try the Teabox subscription. I had a sampler pack of their teas once, and they were all pretty good.
― o. nate, Saturday, 9 January 2016 02:04 (eight years ago) link
https://cheeseposties.com/
*forthright disgust*
― twunty fifteen (imago), Wednesday, September 23, 2015 10:12 AM (3 months ago)
Why are you taking a break? I need my Cheese!It's that time of year when a lot of people are away, there is an unholy amount of turkey to get through and Royal Mail have a quadrillion parcels to deliver causing a ton of disruptions. To avoid posties getting lost/missed/stolen by elves/going stale we're taking the opportunity to re-coup and allow our Cheese umpa lumpas time to re-fuel and get obscenely fat/drunk (as if they need an excuse).
It's that time of year when a lot of people are away, there is an unholy amount of turkey to get through and Royal Mail have a quadrillion parcels to deliver causing a ton of disruptions. To avoid posties getting lost/missed/stolen by elves/going stale we're taking the opportunity to re-coup and allow our Cheese umpa lumpas time to re-fuel and get obscenely fat/drunk (as if they need an excuse).
― small doug yule carnival club (unregistered), Saturday, 9 January 2016 02:16 (eight years ago) link
lol if you buy legs they come with a carrying case and the company gives you yelp results for local places to get surfaces to complete your table with
― j., Saturday, 9 January 2016 02:21 (eight years ago) link
lol I know!
TBH I think a leg kit would be a cool idea if it was like $50 tops and not the price of an actual nice coffee table.
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Saturday, 9 January 2016 03:43 (eight years ago) link
this is the dumbest fuckin thing https://floyddetroit.com/products/the-floyd-shelf?taxon_id=2
― big WHOIS aka the nameserver (s.clover), Saturday, 9 January 2016 03:50 (eight years ago) link
the only person who would buy that is someone that has never seen the interior of a hardware store in their life
― big WHOIS aka the nameserver (s.clover), Saturday, 9 January 2016 03:51 (eight years ago) link
Yeah I was just about to post that - it's literally $85 for two brackets.
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Saturday, 9 January 2016 03:52 (eight years ago) link
aaaaaahahahahaha what
― Doctor Casino, important war pigeon (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 9 January 2016 04:13 (eight years ago) link
It's literally the fucking emperor's new motherfucking shelf
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Saturday, 9 January 2016 04:14 (eight years ago) link
maybe for an extra $15 they will throw in a carrying case for that one too
― j., Saturday, 9 January 2016 05:05 (eight years ago) link
I'm admittedly sort of amused/intrigued by what kind of lifestyle would involve portable table legs, like just showing up places and making insta-tables out of doors or whatever. Junkyard picnicker?
Similarly, why you would need a bed that is extra-easy to move (although not like so easy that you don't still have to carry three presumably moderately heavy pieces of pressboard).
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Saturday, 9 January 2016 05:45 (eight years ago) link
the fuck
― Copy rights, pleasing all star wars fans, hiring professionals. (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 9 January 2016 07:31 (eight years ago) link
oh for fucks sake
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 9 January 2016 17:32 (eight years ago) link
in that case I have a $75 lefthanded screwdriver that you might be interested in
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 9 January 2016 17:34 (eight years ago) link
i mean that is legit stupider than the thing on the vinyl scams thread where they slapped some carefully-sourced MDF together and wanted hundreds of dollars for this super-elite turntable stand
― Doctor Casino, important war pigeon (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 9 January 2016 17:43 (eight years ago) link
There is probably an edge case where hauling around brackets and legs from dorm to studio to group home to etc etc is more practical than moving whole pieces of furniture - but I don't know if that edge case merits a premium on hardware
― El Tomboto, Sunday, 10 January 2016 01:18 (eight years ago) link
edge case also sleeps on a futon
that's where he edges
― j., Sunday, 10 January 2016 01:35 (eight years ago) link
but these brackets still have to screw into a wall, right? so what's the big portability angle that they're pushing? that you can clamp in a fence paling?
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 10 January 2016 02:04 (eight years ago) link
I think I might have actually gotten somebody interested in bombfell.com
― El Tomboto, Sunday, 10 January 2016 02:16 (eight years ago) link
presumably the corner case is tombot's edge case + the sort of disposable income that buys $36 bookends
idk part of me is like, if this works for them, more power to them. another part is distressed that it seemed like the more rational decision to market The Products Of America's Depressed Manufacturing And Steelworks Industry as $$$ status objects and not cheap-ass things for less markup, more volume
― carly rae jetson (thomp), Sunday, 10 January 2016 02:20 (eight years ago) link
otoh i think that amounts to 'why don't they market saving the working classes to the lower middle classes. why is it just the upper middle classes get to feel good about these things.'
― carly rae jetson (thomp), Sunday, 10 January 2016 02:21 (eight years ago) link
Man this thing is dumb as hell and obv. way too expensive but tbh I do think about movability a lot when I look at furniture because I move way too often, so I guess their target market is "people who are running from something but SPOILER you can't run from yourself."
― ENERGY FOOD (en i see kay), Monday, 11 January 2016 01:35 (eight years ago) link
A Box of Escape Yourself Shipped to Your House Each Month
― big Mahats (mattresslessness), Monday, 11 January 2016 01:43 (eight years ago) link
Something tells me this thread will get stranger as the year drones on
― Crazy Eddie & Jesus the Kid (Raymond Cummings), Monday, 11 January 2016 01:48 (eight years ago) link
god help me i signed up for home chef
― qualx, Monday, 11 January 2016 01:57 (eight years ago) link
The smile emoticon prior to the bullet points in that Floydshelf pitch.
― "Damn the Taquitos" (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 11 January 2016 02:01 (eight years ago) link
I just feel like the "I move every year" demographic is not the "$435 bedframe plz" demographic. I mean I'm a stable professional family man and we still sleep on a simple captains bedframe we got for around $75 off craigslist. And that shit has DRAWERS motherfucker, technology these Floyd folk are still decades away from developing.
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Monday, 11 January 2016 03:06 (eight years ago) link
You could move a lot and get a new shitty coffee table (with the actual table table) from the nearest op-shop or w/e each time before you'd hit $179.
― écorché (S-), Wednesday, 13 January 2016 05:39 (eight years ago) link
The clamping furniture is a solid idea, if you could buy it for 1/5th the price at Lowe's and pick out some wood to stain while you're there.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Wednesday, 13 January 2016 07:27 (eight years ago) link
tbh, people moving yearly or bi-yearly should be encouraged to not try to keep up w/ western norms while doing that. Fuck it, get a couple of real Japanese futons, some tatami mats and just live on the floor.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Wednesday, 13 January 2016 07:30 (eight years ago) link
Yeah I'm actually surprised I couldn't easily find (through google) a similar, cheaper version. Shouldn't be much more expensive than any other set of metal table legs. Someone will probably get on that soon.
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Wednesday, 13 January 2016 15:52 (eight years ago) link
Also with all the effort of finding a piece of wood to use you could probably just as easily find a trash-pickable coffee table.
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Wednesday, 13 January 2016 15:53 (eight years ago) link
well you could go to your neighborhood hardware store, but watch out, they might try to upsell you on brackets and clamps, made redundant by your astute long-term investments from the Floyd people.
― Doctor Casino, important war pigeon (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 13 January 2016 19:33 (eight years ago) link
okay the Floyd website is hilarious
― Very selfish, and very ironic (DJP), Wednesday, 13 January 2016 20:00 (eight years ago) link
they're very nice-looking overpriced clamps
― μpright mammal (mh), Wednesday, 13 January 2016 20:35 (eight years ago) link
http://slurmed.com/fanart/paul/321_clamps.gif
L-R: Floyd, customers
― Doctor Casino, important war pigeon (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 13 January 2016 20:45 (eight years ago) link
― qualx, Sunday, January 10, 2016 8:57 PM (5 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
everyone is supposed to be shaming me for this
my first box comes in a week i can't wait
― qualx, Friday, 15 January 2016 07:44 (eight years ago) link
looks expensive but tasty, please report back
― μpright mammal (mh), Friday, 15 January 2016 16:06 (eight years ago) link
I had a co-worker who did Blue Apron. Single, 30s, lived alone. Every day or couple of days he'd bring in the sad, snapwared leftovers from the prior night's wasabi sea bass or whatever it was.
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Friday, 15 January 2016 16:25 (eight years ago) link
mmmm wasabi sea bass
― Copy rights, pleasing all star wars fans, hiring professionals. (forksclovetofu), Friday, 15 January 2016 16:38 (eight years ago) link
been curious about this but don't live/work in fidi:http://ny.eater.com/2015/4/28/8506595/maple-food-delivery-nyc-david-chang
Basically it's gourmet seamless with no middleman, or I guess really just a fancy but reasonably priced all-delivery restaurant. I had an idea sort of like this once, thinking that you could probably do really good delivery at reasonable prices if you could keep costs down by only having a kitchen and not a storefront (you would probably get a big break on real estate by not needing a visible storefront property or space for tables). I figured internet makes that possible in a way it wasn't before. But I am not David Chang or a person with money to invest in a restaurant.
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Friday, 15 January 2016 17:20 (eight years ago) link
grim irony that a just-in-time service like that only works in an area that's also dense enough that it could provide a take-out meal of similar quality within a short walk
― μpright mammal (mh), Friday, 15 January 2016 20:54 (eight years ago) link
Maybe. Not sure you could get something quite that (presumably) good for $12/lunch or $15/dinner in a lot of places in Manhattan (most of which, granted, don't yet have Maple either). There is a place by my midtown office that does sort of an upscale version of deli/steam table, good organic ingredients, etc., and you can get a pretty good dinner there for around $12-15.
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Friday, 15 January 2016 21:08 (eight years ago) link