By large I mean by area, not [necessarily] density or weight. Preferably something that isn’t collapsable or capable of being easily disassembled. I want the delivery of the item to be a major pain in the ass.

  • Sunsofold@lemmings.world
    3·
    1 hour ago

    You can order packing peanuts for ~$5/ft^3 and some places will do free shipping over a certain value. There are also decorative balloon bunches, though I don’t know about price there.

    Liquids would also work. Heavy, sloshy, awkward, etc. and you don’t want to drop them because it’d make a mess.

    • Sidyctism II.@discuss.tchncs.de
      3·
      2 hours ago

      that only really buys you a piece of paper that says: “you own this star”.
      otherwise i guess i could sell you the universe for 1 penny, which would make for a fun answer to OPs question.

  • ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org
    604·
    13 hours ago

    The National Parks.

    I guarantee you, for the amount you pay in your taxes for the upkeep of YOUR National Parks, you get orders of magnitude more beautiful land to enjoy than the acreage you could possibly purchase directly.

    Before Trump fucked it all up that is, of course…

      • forrgott@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
        4·
        6 hours ago

        If I understand correctly, this one is still in progress, i.e. her hasn’t quite accomplished it yet. They tried to add the selloff of public land to the big piece of shit bill, but I think that failed?

  • viking@infosec.pub
    431·
    12 hours ago

    Those plastic balls for a ball pit. You order them in bags of 1000 pcs for 15 bucks on Aliexpress, they are bloody huge. A couple of those will do.

    Especially if your goal is to mess with the delivery driver, you can max out available storage in the truck in no time.

  • henfredemars@infosec.pubEnglish
    21·
    9 hours ago

    Plastic lawn chair. They are one of the biggest dimensional losers. Cheap, but if you’re ordering just one the packing is super inefficient.

    I suppose it’s not that much of a pain in the ass in retrospect but it’s definitely a mental pain considering the incredible poor efficiency of getting one delivered. Perhaps you can find an extremely large piece of Styrofoam because they cannot be folded.

  • pwnicholson@lemmy.world
    242·
    13 hours ago

    Outside of the awesome ‘national parks’ answer from someone else, I would have to assume the best cost-to-surface-area purchase in the world would be really cheap land in the American West, Australian outback, Russian tundra, Canadian North, etc. Assuming it doesn’t have oil on it, some of those areas, land practically given away. Sometimes you can get governments to pay you to take it on and try to do something useful with it.

    If you consider that ownership usually includes mineral rights for miles under the ground, this really starts to look like the obvious choice of your looking for volume, not just area.

      • HikingVet@lemmy.ca
        8·
        12 hours ago

        You most likely don’t. You would have to talk to the territorial governments who then would have to talk to the indigenous land holders. And even then it’s a logistical nightmare where the sun sets for a month.

        Also if it is Crown land also doesn’t mean that the government is actually looking to sell or develop the particular land even if it isn’t in a National park.

        • Corngood@lemmy.ml
          5·
          10 hours ago

          I’m sure there’s cheap land for sale, but that one is just a typo in the listing I’m pretty sure.

          Situated on a large 82X145 fully fenced lot, giving you ample room and tons of outdoor space for your family.

          It’s a regular town lot surrounded by others.

          • Cuberoot@lemmynsfw.com
            3·
            9 hours ago

            You were right, even if it was for the wrong reason.

            The Zillow listing said acres where they presumably meant square feet which are a lot smaller. This is a city lot, probably less than even a single acre.

              • pwnicholson@lemmy.world
                1·
                10 hours ago

                Comment hasn’t been edited.

                That’s also just what I could find in 30 seconds on Zillow. Pretty sure you could get stuff even cheaper (no structures in property, for insurance) with a little effort

  • zxqwas@lemmy.world
    9·
    11 hours ago

    Drywall. Heavy, fragile, 2 out of 3 dimensions are relatively large. Easy to transport when you’re stacking them in a truck but difficult up the stairs for example.

    Bubble wrap. Cheap-ish per m³ if taking up space is more important but Easy to carry a roll of that around alone.

  • Wolf314159@startrek.website
    2·
    8 hours ago

    Can you still buy a star? Obviously dubious that you actually own it. But certainly bigger than anything on earth and a bit tricky to deliver.

    • mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      1·
      2 hours ago

      This reminds me of an old Reddit writing prompt that I got a good chuckle from. Something along the lines of “humanity discovers FTL travel, and is invited to join the Galactic Federation. The federation goes out of its way to accommodate incoming species, and part of that intake process involves respecting existing legal structures and contracts… They just realized humans have been selling stars to each other for centuries.”