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For Sale ~ Apple Doorstop from $1

Apple DoorstopTake advantage of this New Year opportunity to acquire this never-before-seen Apple Doorstop, guaranteed to hold back the heaviest door, even in a strong wind. Exquisitely engraved with the famous Apple logo, this original doorstop will announce your sophistication and sheer good taste to your friends and other visitors. Give yourself a headstart in the Apple Doorstop stakes and place your bid now in the comment box below. Please also add a sentence of up to 12 worlds explaining why you should win the auction. A combination of the highest bid and most imaginative sentence will win the auction.

Wordchecker
doorstop (noun): a fixed or heavy object that keeps a door open or stops it from banging against a wall (source: Apple Dictionary)

Apple Room HeaterBonus multi-function adaptation
Your Apple Doorstop will also function as a magnificent Apple Room Heater to keep any house warm during inclement weather. The Apple Doorstop is cleverly designed to pump out vast quantites of heat, well in excess of anything you would need to keep even an Arctic house warm and habitable. When the house gets too warm, simply unplug the device for a while.

How am I able to offer the Apple Doorstop at such an incredibly low starting price?
As the Mac devotees among you will have spotted, the Apple Doorstop is actually an Apple Time Capsule, marketed by Apple as the ultimate wireless backup device which you install and forget, letting it work its magic of seamlessly backing up your Mac computers and any other computers on your network without further intervention. All this for a retail price of a mere $300. In line with an increasing number of Apple products, however, it is “not fit for purpose”, or put another way all the Apple marketing hype is “bullshit“. The Apple Time Capsule is a “load of crap” and essentially sells only because Apple lies about its capabilities. (Don’t take my word for it. Just google “apple time capsule bullshit” or “apple time capsule problems”.) Fortunately, after hours of research and experimentation I have discovered that it does function perfectly as a doorstop, and in addition will amaze you by the amount of heat it gratuitously pumps out (all Apple products “run hot”) when connected to the mains to function as a room heater. (Note though that in doorstop mode there is no need to connect the device to the mains.)

Please leave your bid and your tie-breaker sentence of up to 12 words in the comment box below.

Joe | Sunday, December 26th, 2010 | Filed under Curiosities

13 Responses to “For Sale ~ Apple Doorstop from $1”

  1. John Appleseed says:

    I bid $2.00. I should win because I am the first to bid.

  2. Joyce Vieira says:

    It is so chic to have an Apple doorstop!!! It should work as a room cooler too, then people who live in hotter places could enjoy it on very sunny days. =D

  3. Monika says:

    Super anti-boost for Apple,for dorstep it will do,I need one!:D
    (in 12 words)

  4. Alex Shilkin says:

    I like it from the first look!!! very good gift on NEW YEAR

  5. Maria says:

    I bid $2.50.

    Mr. Apple door stopper
    Hold that door for me
    Let my students enter
    And heat the room 4 glee.

  6. Silvia says:

    I just like and need it.

  7. Shu Hung Hsieh says:

    I bid $3.00

    I am a mom and I think my child will like it very much.

  8. Elisabeth Hohmann says:

    I bid $3.50, because I like apples especially in winter.

  9. Yvan says:

    can keep the door open… the robbers could enter…but as acts as heater, better use under mattres of my grandmother.

  10. Penelope says:

    I bed $4.00 and as I am the tenth in turn I want to hope

  11. saeid says:

    hello

  12. Zain Ali says:

    I bid $1, storm hits Karachi(where I inhabit) once in a blue moon, so it offers me only one use i.e door stop

  13. Deb Jones-Phillips says:

    I bid $5 as I don’t want to be pipped to the post for this core product.

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