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CordBox - A secondary cord marketplace

December 12th, 2006

Out of the ashes of your box of spare cords to old electronics and accessories come a hidden gem - for someone else that is. What CordBox would be is a marketplace where everyone takes pictures of all of their cords, uploads them to the website with accurate discriptions, and boom someone else finds it. One man’s garbage is another man’s treasure. For some reason when I moved up to Chicago, I lost the cord to my mp3 player. So that means all the songs on my mp3 player are at least a year and a half old. Now the likelihood of actually being able to find this anywhere on eBay is tough (because who would actually sell just the cord), so I will probably have to go to the OEM and pay $30 for it, which is a kick in the pants.

With CordBox, users will be encouraged to upload their cords by receiving points for every item they upload, which can be used either in the marketplace or cashed out for BestBuy gift cards (we would have to do this VERY carefully).

Now does anyone have a spare cord to the Olympus m robe mp3 player? I could just borrow it, I don’t need to keep it.

UPDATE: Yep, $30. Bastards! Man I was spot on.

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