Where to buy a single very large cardboard box

Goose · 9 Aug 2011 at 16:30

Im going to be selling my CM690 case soon and I cant for the life of me find anywhere to purchase a single box of roughly 520mm x 500mm x 200m. My local post office is useless and every website i've found either charges a fortune for a single box that size or only sells them in packs of about 50.

If anyone knows of place that sells them that size as a single i'd be most grateful.

And if this is entirely the wrong forum for this thread then please accept my apologies.

Thanks

Sho · 9 Aug 2011 at 16:32

You know anybody works in a Warehouse? Because you'll find plenty at any warehouse.

But other then that... Try your local Cash & Carry place. They might have some spare box lying around....

233 · 9 Aug 2011 at 16:32

try your local supermarket, get one roughly the right size and mod it

Souleh · 9 Aug 2011 at 16:40

Local McDs/Burger King etc will all have large boxes and if you ask nicely youll get plenty

Participant · 9 Aug 2011 at 16:41

Why does it need to be single? Are you moving in with it?

Tbid · 9 Aug 2011 at 16:49

Supermarkets are your best bet for sure.

Sp00n · 9 Aug 2011 at 16:54

Big yellow storage sell boxes.

mrk · 9 Aug 2011 at 16:55

Obvious solution is obvious! Trip to your local PC outlet and ask them.

LOAM · 9 Aug 2011 at 16:56

are you wanting to ship a 42" tv ?

Pawnless Endgame · 9 Aug 2011 at 16:57

You can also try your local Spar/Co-op. They've always been helpful with boxes when I'm moving house.

Cosimo · 9 Aug 2011 at 16:58

Robbie G said:
Why does it need to be single? Are you moving in with it?

He might be living in it.

Moothead2 · 9 Aug 2011 at 17:00

Why can't you just use the box of your new case assuming you're not going caseless/PCless?

SkScotchegg · 9 Aug 2011 at 17:02

I just had this vision of this guy moving around inside a cardboard box like in metal gear solid lol.

Cleeecooo · 9 Aug 2011 at 17:04

Shurgard, big yellow and all other self storage places

Noxia · 9 Aug 2011 at 17:42

Had a measure of the boggest boxes we have here but nothing comes anywhere near.

OpenToSuggestions · 9 Aug 2011 at 17:46

Go to a supermarket on the night shift (when the real shelf stacking work is done, i would not bother with the day time staff) and ask for a Walkers crisps box that the multipacks come in. The Tesco own brand crisp boxes are pretty damn big too. Unless the Tesco is tiny the night staff will have a night delivery of crisps 7 nights a week.

They are big buggers. They may not be large enough for the case you want to put in it, but I have every confidence that with 2 boxes, a knife and some masking tape you can definately make a box of suitable size

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pingwing · 9 Aug 2011 at 17:51

Go refrigerators come in those massive cardboard boxes?

Yeah but the rent on them now is extortionate!

/no more Futurama

whitecrook · 9 Aug 2011 at 17:55

Tape
+
multiple smaller boxes
+
knife and some skillz
=
problem solved

OpenToSuggestions · 9 Aug 2011 at 17:56

whitecrook said:
Tape
+
multiple smaller boxes
+
knife and some skillz
=
problem solved

Yep. Plus a few free big boxes from Tesco crisps

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arknor · 9 Aug 2011 at 18:09

Foxtrot26 said:
try your local supermarket, get one roughly the right size and mod it

i remember back in the 90s when supermarkets had an area full of cardboard boxes for people to use if they didnt want bags...

no one does this anymore do they?