Steve B wrote:

A 5# box, which I estimate holds about 1,000, cost $14 -- a price diff of
a
factor of 10!

I have friggin boxes and boxes and jars and jars of fasteners. Just because
I'm too cheap to pay what they want for ten of them. But when I need
something, I go to the bins rather than make a run to the hardware store.
And if I do have to run for fasteners, I buy them by the box and have a
stock of them.


I hit the local scrap metal yard first. They have a few tons of
surplus hardware they sell for $1.50 a pound.


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Greed is the root of all eBay.