You have 30minutes to spend 5k, what would you buy?

[Teti]

You have 30minutes to spend 5k, what would you buy in your favourite eshop?

[NiHaoMike]

A bulk order of solar panels, keep some for my own use, sell the remainder on Craigslist for a profit. If selling or giving away the items is not allowed, just set them all up in the backyard and get a few used Bitcoin miners to use the extra power.

[Nominal Animal]

Not sure. Either a ridiculously customized dual machine setup (workstation + server); or a beginner metal lathe, mill, and related tooling.

[Cerebus]

Me?
Given 30 minutes to spend 5k?
With my reputation?

What were they thinking?

[james_s]

A bunch of lumber, I need to replace my deck, and if there's enough left I could really use a shed to keep my garden tools in. Nothing to do with electronics but I'm already pretty well equipped there.

[Jackster]

BTC

[CatalinaWOW]

Prepaid credit cards.

[m98]

Only 5k?

[rhodges]

Last year, I would have immediately responded with a new scope. My Tek 2465 lost its smoke, and my 465 is hard to read under the time base knob. And with only two channels, I sometimes had to use the external trigger. Yeah, I know, first world problems.

So my response to free stuff would have been, "What the hell, let's get a $1400 SDS2104X+ and upgrade it!"

Now I have an SDS1104X-E, and it is perfectly suitable for everything in my immediate future.

I have some of those super-cheap USB logic analyzers and Sigrok/Pulseview, and they should do what I want for now.

I guess it would be nice to have one or two more computers with decent memory to explore Xen, Vmware, or other hypervisors.

But I think I am pretty much good with what I have, in the development and test department.

To answer the question, I would probably spend the 30 minute free money on some concrete in front of my garage. Sorry about that.

Oh, wait! Can I spend the $5000 on 50 months of Starlink?

[Alex Eisenhut]

https://www.saq.com/fr/13323095

[TerraHertz]

Silver, online from a bullion dealer like https://www.abcbullion.com.au/store/silver then go pick up in person.
5K isn't very much. A 100 ozt bar and a tube of 25 x 1 ozt coins probably.
If you'd said $500K (or any number really) I'd answer the same way. Except n x 5 Kg bars, or maybe 1000 ozt Comex bars.

Why? See https://old.reddit.com/r/Wallstreetsilver/

[Nominal Animal]

You have 30minutes to spend 5k, what would you buy in your favourite eshop?

Is it okay for me to now be sad and disappointed that nobody actually offered? 

If that was 5M, I'd build my dream house into a cliffside near a small stream or river.  It is literally a dream house, because I first saw it in a dream, walking through it, hosting the housewarming party.

[mariush]

If I *have to* use my favorite eshop and actually order something, then I'd probably order 5-10 Ryzen CPUs because they would hold their value reasonably well and I can resell them and get the cash and invest that cash in some stock (AMD shares or some fund with mix of shares or whatever)

Could also be the initial payment (along with more of my personal savings) on a $50-75k apartment.

[artag]

Something that would appreciate in value due to collector interest - pinball, synth, Curta.

Not something self-obsoleting like a PC.

Maybe something that only slowly gets obsolete, like a machine tool.

[hli]

My combined Amazon wishlists are worth more than double that (at least). I'm not sure how fast I could move them into the Amazon basket, though