What can I do with 12.000 mousepads?

[blue_eagle]

Hi guys

Just got 12.000 mousepads for free from one of my friends warehouse the guy donated me all of them. The mousepads are not that good but I couldn't resist let them go so took all of em and decided to sell on ebay but it seems it is impossible since even shipping costs $4 something for each mousepad. And I don't think someone would give that much for a stupid mousepad. There is a company's tel number, url, etc. on each mousepad. And now I am thinking what to do with these mousepads.

I would appreciate any idea thanks a lot.

Sincerely..

[vincevincevince]

How about bonding them into a giant mattress (if they are the foam type)

Or... using them for lagging pipes?

[Hawkgirl]

You could give them to the school district in your area for their computers. Or give them to any needy group who might be able to figure out what to do with them.

Or figure out how to ship 'em cheaper. ;)

[PhraSEOlogy]

Garage sale 'em.

12 mousepads for a dollar.

All you need is 1000 customers and you have made a $1,000 bucks.

[httpwebwitch]

3 words:
buyer pays shipping.

[grandpa]

Have you contacted NASA? Just might be the thing they need with all those 8086 processors floating around.

[BeeDeeDubbleU]

Could they be used for tiling the shuttle?

[Mike12345]

Cut each one into 4 pieces and re-sell as those mat things that protect surfaces from hot drinks.

[grandpa]

Have you considered using them as a tax deduction? Simply offload the lot onto someone else and declare a charitable contribution. Those things could be worth 10 times their weight in gold if they moved thru enough people in the right (err, wrong) manner.

[travelin cat]

wallpaper?

dog toys?

pot holder?

or grind them up to fill some pot holes...

[inbound]

You could give them to a guy with a big warehouse ;o)

[MatthewHSE]

Cut apart a bunch of wire coat-hangers, stick them through the mousepads, bend the wires at crazy angles, and glue on a few feathers and tennis-shoes here and there to make a big piece of modern art. Change your name to something that sounds artistic, cultivate a type of restless, distracted look in your eyes, and sell the creation to a university for a million dollars while bemoaning the fact that vulgar necessity compels you to create what the common mind wants to see. Then retire in the location of your choice! ;)

[httpwebwitch]

trivets
non-slip appliques for bathtubs
gardening kneepads

[shigamoto]

Buy 12.000 computer mouses and ship them together with the pads? :)

[inbound]

I think the 12 for a buck idea seems the best so far, you'd just need a very big car boot sale. (and a huge car boot!)

[ska_demon]

Stick your URL on them, climb a tall building and throw the lot off!

Free Advertising ;OP

Yay! Ska

[vik_c]

Do something completely weird with them..like build the largest house ever built with mousepads and get in touch with Guinness/ Ripleys believe it or not. Whoever bites, will give you international coverage. You'll need many volunteers for this. Sell tickets for the final exhibit and donate the money to your favorite charity. This needs a lot of enterprise though to pull off.

If you could just get the pads reprinted using a different brand and url, there could be many options, even to monetize this junk but apparently that's not the case.

[trillianjedi]

I always thought that the optical mouse kind of made mats redundant?

I like the Guiness Book of Records idea though.

TJ

[zulu_dude]

Sell them to the company whose name and contact details are on them?

[Automan Empire]

I like Vic's idea. Think of the guy who just built a full size viking ship out of 15 million popsicle sticks!
If you've taken up white elephant collecting, I have about 1,900 pens with my company's name, which don't write particularly well. :(
-Automan

[blue_eagle]

Thank you for all the answers i guess i will sell them on ebay in 100 lots for very cheap or give as donation and have a tax deduction how does that sound?

[vik_c]

Since you got them for free, how will donating them entitle you to any tax deduction?

[lawman]

Tax deduction = offset to income. He should be able to deduct their value - assuming there is real value, in which case he might have to declare their value as income. :)

[reaper]

Dutch auction wholesale on u know where. Buyer pays for shipping.