Apple Store Cracked Step On Sale for $2,500

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If you are an Apple fan, you’d better not miss out on this deal! With a buy-it-now price of only $2,500 you would be an idiot not to jump on this one! I heard Steve Jobs walked on this very step and his sheer awesomeness made it crack. Starting bid is just $700.

"They replaced it with a new one after a customer dropped a snapple bottle on it and cracked it. I picked it up before it could be thrown out over a year ago, figuring it's a collectible. When these are new, they cost 10K to buy from the German glass-makers. So, since it's cracked I figure it's worth at least $2500, considering the steps are all custom ordered.
 
It cracked from a Snapple bottle being dropped on it? What does that tell you about it's ability to hold people?
 
It cracked from a Snapple bottle being dropped on it? What does that tell you about it's ability to hold people?

I was wondering the same thing. If that step is made out of 250 lbs of "very thick glas" I can hardly imagine the size of the snapple bottle required to demolish it...
 
It is possible that the snapple bottle hit it "just right" to cause the split.

Sometimes all it takes is a hit in the right place.

As for anyone buying this. Just hmmm is all i can say.

Some moron fanboy apple tard will surely eat this up. It's just a matter of time now. :D
 
But, but, but....read the comments....:

"And $2500 ain't bad for glass made from elvish sand, ground unicorn horns, and the tears of foxconn factory workers (the tears create a magical shimmer that nothing else can replicate), even if it is cracked "

LOL'd!!!!
 
Make the guy who dropped the bottle buy it. "You broke it, you pay for it" "Buh buh what? For $2500?!"
 
Yet another reason to love Snapple: in a pinch it can destroy an iStore. :)

Now that's better stuff. :p
 
Probably some kind of manufacturing defect that caused it to break. Why would someone buy this?
 
I would be surprised if this sale goes through without someone reporting this idiot.
 
:D He seriously thinks someone might use drink-vulnerable glass for a 250lb desk?
 
What is worse is the cost of it new. 10k for a fucking step. You know you are wasting money on your store when every step cost you 10k. no wonder the damn devices cost so much. they need to in order for them to afford to build the stores to sell them.

That aside, anyone who purchases this just because it came from an apple store needs to be clubed like a baby seal.
 
It cracked from a Snapple bottle being dropped on it? What does that tell you about it's ability to hold people?

Why don't you perform a simple test for me? Go outside, get an 8" diameter clay pot and turn it upside down. Stand on it. It will hold you just fine.

Now take a snapple bottle (or anything else semi-hard with appreciable mass) and drop it on the top of the pot. It shatters.

Clay pots and glass are both ceramic materials, which have GREAT stress-strain curves but are not very impact resistant unless backed by metal or something else hard. To absorb impact energy, they crack or shatter instead of bending or denting like metal. However, in the absence of high impact, they can hold a LOT of weight without deforming.

I can crack a cinder block with a 16oz claw hammer, but you can park a car on top of it with no isssue.

Impact and load are two VERY different things folks.
 
I heard Steve Jobs walked on this very step and his sheer awesomeness made it crack. Starting bid is just $700.

Nah, his Reality Distortion Field (RDF) was the likely culprit. It's mighty powerful ya know! :D
 
[Tripod]MajorPayne;1035360972 said:
Why don't you perform a simple test for me? Go outside, get an 8" diameter clay pot and turn it upside down. Stand on it. It will hold you just fine.

Now take a snapple bottle (or anything else semi-hard with appreciable mass) and drop it on the top of the pot. It shatters.

Clay pots and glass are both ceramic materials, which have GREAT stress-strain curves but are not very impact resistant unless backed by metal or something else hard. To absorb impact energy, they crack or shatter instead of bending or denting like metal. However, in the absence of high impact, they can hold a LOT of weight without deforming.

I can crack a cinder block with a 16oz claw hammer, but you can park a car on top of it with no isssue.

Impact and load are two VERY different things folks.

Yeah I know. It's just the mere thought of a simple Snapple bottle being dropped in an Apple store at all. Have you seen their stores? The one in Chicago is made almost entirely of glass! Snapple bottles should be checked at the door. lol
 
So Microsoft is rock rolling people while Apple is selling old cracked glass.

I lol'ed
 
They showed just how strong it is on mythbusters. The cardoor's glass isn't very thing but they couldn't break it. Yet it shattered from just a metal tipped plastic hammer.
 
Cracked glass and Apple....they seem to go well together.
 
So in essence he stole it from Apple, no? I can already see Apple lawyers cranking on this one. Nobody steals from Apple!
 
I recently bought 18 lbs of CUSTOM glass shelving pieces for $108. That works out to $1500 for 250 lbs. Certainly the mark-up was huge for my small order. No way was this $10,000 per step.
 
I recently bought 18 lbs of CUSTOM glass shelving pieces for $108. That works out to $1500 for 250 lbs. Certainly the mark-up was huge for my small order. No way was this $10,000 per step.
Even so, Apple knows a thing or two about markup.
 
I guess it's a lot like "Tempered Glass" like used in coffee table's, entertainment systems, etc...

It's great as far as strength and impact resistance goes, right up to it's limit. When it's limit is breached, it explodes into a billion little fragments that shreds every building and living being in a 1/4 mile radius :)
 
[Tripod]MajorPayne;1035360972 said:
Why don't you perform a simple test for me? Go outside, get an 8" diameter clay pot and turn it upside down. Stand on it. It will hold you just fine.

Now take a snapple bottle (or anything else semi-hard with appreciable mass) and drop it on the top of the pot. It shatters.

Clay pots and glass are both ceramic materials, which have GREAT stress-strain curves but are not very impact resistant unless backed by metal or something else hard. To absorb impact energy, they crack or shatter instead of bending or denting like metal. However, in the absence of high impact, they can hold a LOT of weight without deforming.

I can crack a cinder block with a 16oz claw hammer, but you can park a car on top of it with no isssue.

Impact and load are two VERY different things folks.


this. also, he mentions that its 10 layers of glass, so it is very possible that just one of the top layers cracked and the rest are still fine.
 
Q: Is the crack dirty? Is it filled with brown dirt?
A: You are one funny 'lil fella.


LOLOLOL!!!
 
For 10k a step it should have Ipad technology built into telling me how fat I am and how much calories I am expending walking on it. 10k a step what a waste! Atleast the step is of German quality.
 
Call it the iStep, schedule a keynote with Steve Jobs, and watch 10,000,000 idiots march to their nearest Apple store.
 
For 10k a step it should have Ipad technology built into telling me how fat I am and how much calories I am expending walking on it. 10k a step what a waste! Atleast the step is of German quality.

Check the pics, not only does it not have I-pad technology, it does not even have the Apple logo on it.
 
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