Archive:ServerHardwareAuction/Template

Reasoning

We should have a template to use for the auctions, containing all the common information.

• Brief "about LHS" blurb:

This item is for sale by the London Hackspace - A non-profit UK Charity organization dedicated to providing a community run workshop to share tools and knowledge. Please bid generously in support of our cause!

(these/this) (server/monitor/hard drive disk(s)) were donated to us from a very friendly organization, so that we can sell them to help keep London Hackspace open and running well. They've all been well tested by our expert tinkerers, so you can bid with confidence.

Thanks for looking!

• Contact/location (wiki page link?)
  • "note whether vehicles can pull up for loading. Also that it is outside congestion zone"
• Source of hardware, auction context
• Feedback from various people, to incorporate in the template text
• Highlight: pickup only. State preferred pickup times (evenings preferred, but essentially 24/7)

Payment options:

• "Require payment via PayPal within x days and collection within y days otherwise you reserve the right to relist without compensation. " (Maybe we need to check "See item description" under payment options)

Hardware Template

This auction is for $item.

Specification:

Manufacturer

$manufacturer

Model Number

$model

Form factor

$formfactor

Motherboard

$manufacturer $model

CPU slots

[1|2]

64-bit

[Yes|No]

Virtualisation

[Yes|No]

Processors

$manufacturer $model x $quantity

RAM

$type ${quantity}GB ${speed}GHz

[RAID Controller|HD Interface Card]

$manufacturer $model

Management interface

$type

Ethernet type

[10/100/1000]

Network ports

$quantity

Hard disk type

[SCA SCSI|SATA]

Hard disk capacity

$quantity

Additional features

[Net Boot], [Optical Drive], [Lights Out Option]

This item is supplied [in working condition|as faulty|untested]. The following components were tested for basic functionality:

• Boots in to operating system
• No dead pixels
• Displays a picture

The following peripherals will be supplied:

• Power lead
• VGA cable
• DVI cable
• 2 x ${capacity}GB [Western Digital|Seagate|Maxtor] Hard Disks

About the London Hackspace

The London Hackspace is a non-profit hackerspace in central London: a community-run workshop where people come to share tools and knowledge. We have a 1,300 square foot space in Shoreditch, just a stone's throw from Hoxton station. It's open to our members 24 hours a day, and we hold regular free events which are open to the public.

We were donated a large amount of hardware by a local Internet company. We hope to use the proceeds of this sale to improve our space.

Item collection

All items are to be collected from our workshop in Shoreditch (East London), near Hoxton station. This is outside the congestion charge zone and has a 30-minute loading bay. Collection is preferred in the evenings, but any time of day can be arranged on request. We require that items be collected within 7 days of the end of the auction, if they aren't your payment will be returned (excluding fees) and we will re-list the item.

Post code: E2 8HD

Unfortunately we are unable to send any of these items by post, but we can hand them over to a courier that you supply.

Payment

Payment is possible by PayPal (although we require payment within 4 working days of winning the item), or by cash when collecting the item.