WeirdStuff Warehouse

This place is awwwesome. You know how most people have a little box at home that’s full of miscellaneous cables and things to plug into different devices? Well picture that times 100. This is a great place to go if suddenly your laptop cable craps out, as mine has about 4 times in the past 5 years.
A brand new laptop cable for and old HP 2009 computer runs about 60 bucks new and typically I would have to go all the way to San Jose to get it. My $ 15 cable from Amazon just crapped out on me yesterday after an electrical outage, and I needed to get a new one ASAP.
I had donated a lot of stuff to the weird stuff warehouse over 10 years ago when my father passed away and we found ourselves with a ton of cables we didn’t know what to do with. Today was the first time that I had actually bought something from there. They were the perfect place to go when I realized I needed a new power cable.
You can get a really good sturdy company issued power cable for around 20 bucks here. I bought two. The ones you can get here are a way better quality than the ones you’ll get cheap off Amazon, which is probably why I’ve gone through three of them so quickly. I highly highly recommend this place. Thanks to Gary and Paul for their help today. If you live in Silicon Valley, you need to visit this place at least once.

I love this place! Great selection. I was talking to an employee about old video cards and he was very knowledgeable, cool to talk to someone else about that. He helped me clean a video card and told me not to buy it because the fan didn’t work well. They don’t offer refunds because the parts are as is, but they will let you exchange. I went back to exchange something and they marked the sound card i bought from $ 5 down to $ 2, awesome! You can find some really cool things here.

I love browsing at Weird Stuff! The variety of new surplus, aging but serviceable, to downright antique technology on hand here is astounding.
Need a whole bunch of monitors to assemble that granddaddy video wall? Check. How about a replacement turbo-​pump for your Scanning Electron Microscope? Weird Stuff has several, with controllers if you want ‘em. Power supplies up the wazoo. Cables of every flavor. Rack-​mounted hoo-​hahs of past eras. Blades, servers, RAIDs, coolers — you want it, WS has it at a whale of a deal.
Deep selection of network equipment & ready-​to-​swap-​in modules. Stock of passive components is spotty, as is that of optics, fiber optics, and optoelectronics; for those items I recommend Halted (HSC Specialties in Santa Clara) instead.

Great place to find everything tech. They also have an app where you can view a live webcam of the store. Everytime I enter the store, I find something new. Always look forward to coming in.

This place is awesome! You have to come here. A geek or nerd’s dream store. This place is like a Fry’s or Microcenter, but old-​school. Just walking around this place brings back so many forgotten memories! So many technologies that at one time you couldn’t live without, then suddenly can’t even remember now. So many things that used to cost a fortune that only huge corporations could afford, now at the grasp of everyday people like a silicon-​valley garage sale. So cool! And there are so many isles filled with so many technical trinkets that there is no way you won’t end up buying something, even if it’s totally outdated and obsolete, just to have as a showcase item or souvenir. Some computer stuff that goes way back, and many other technical things as well. If it’s a vintage tech and you can’t find it out there, you can probably find it in here. And it’s located in the complex where the old Atari offices used to be.

A tech geek’s nirvana; there is so much junk even a person who knows nothing about electronics or computers will find something cool and interesting to ponder. My kids love this place and have little gizmos and projects they are geeking out on. The staff here has always been helpful and patient in gathering information from them and helping them buy what they need. And the prices have always been totally reasonable. Lots of parking, and lots of fun. It’s like a museum. Give yourself an hour to explore. It’s a good time.

Great place to go for all your computer needs, sometimes the best and sturdy computer is the older ones upgrade some parts from this place and your good to go. The guys there are extremely knowledgeable.

This store is about stocking computer and electronic equipment and parts that someone one day may purchase. So it’s not so much a place to go to be nostalgic about some computer you may have used 20 years ago or to find something like an oscilloscope, since they don’t sell many items like that (although they did have a TRS-​80 for sale). It’s about finding used computer equipment and some electronic equipment for reasonable prices.
When I was doing system admin work I had a great «junk drawer» with a collection of routers, switches, drives, cables, fasteners, brackets, and other useful computer parts. This store is that ultimate collection.

This place is fantastic! They have everything and anything that you could ever want that is electronic. Everyone working there is very knowledgable, and they are willing to help you out. The prices are great, and I can’t help but thinking that they could be making a lot more money off the items that they sell. Highly recommend this place, and probably my favorite place to shop.

This place is OK.
It has a random selection of electronics surplus. A very small selection of test equipment. Better selection of components — but still not good. Lots of old computer parts. Some old gaming consoles.
The highlight for me was probably an ancient scantron grading machine. I was tempted to buy it just so that I could burn it to the ground. But that would not be the most environmentally friendly action so I decided just to give it dirty looks instead.
I don’t really know what I’d recommend it for. Not an impressive selection of anything, as far as I could see. It does have the musty smell that all surplus shops are required to have — so it has that going for it.

I decided to drop by here after being informed by my sister that this place sells lightly used computer chairs. I’ve been in desperate need of a new chair for the past year or so due to my cat shredding my chair up, but I was too lazy to go out and get one. My sister had purchased a nice fabric one for $ 25, and I, needing a fabric one so my cat’s claws wouldn’t do too much damage, decided to drop by and pick myself out a new chair.
I ended up sampling a few different chairs. They were of nice quality and quite comfortable, but I went for one that was $ 30 (I had a $ 5 off coupon from my dad, so it actually came out to $ 25).
I’m sure not too many people actually come to WeirdStuff for the computer chairs. My dad is always coming here to dispose of laptops, for example, and I know plenty of people who could just get lost in the many aisles of this warehouse. Regardless, I’m quite happy with my new chair.
On a side note, I noticed customer service here is pretty nonexistent. The person working the register when I was there was pretty unenthusiastic. Also, nobody offered to assist (not that it was needed). Then again, given the clientele and the industry, I don’t think these qualities are especially critical.

Probably not going back. I had originally given this place ⁵⁄₅ stars.
Most of the sales guys are cool but my last visit made me change my mind about this place. I had an issue where one of the sales guys became extremely combative and eventually refused to sell me an item.
I was at the register ready to pay and this sales guy decided to do online research on the value of one of the six items I wanted to purchase. In 6+ years of shopping here I’ve never had that happen. From the next isle over he commented that the item I wanted to buy sold online for hundreds. Then another employeed/​owner? walked by and he was asked what the cost of the item should be in his estimation and the 2^nd guy answered instantly «Fourty, fifty bucks» Seemed to me like they were pulling numbers out of thin air since these untested cards normally go for 10 – 20 bucks. The whole thing was ridiculously unprofessional.
The sales guy then «accused» of reselling items, kept saying that I «knew the real price» of the items and finally concluded that the item he looked up could not be sold to me «because it was newer».
Needless to say at this point I was pretty disgusted with the situation since I originally only went to pickup a couple of items so I left ⁴⁄₆ items I had at the register. I almost laughed when the guy told me he could give me a deal on the remaining items in an attempt to make a bigger sale.
Again 99.9 999 999% of my visits have been fun and filled with cool purchases but this dude really killed it for me. Management — the items you sell are all available via Frys, Amazon and/​or eBay so why should I go to your store and deal with this behaviour?

Great place to find old computer gear.
I came up on two road cases for our 30″ flat screen tvs that worked out perfect for shipping to trade shows. This place is rad.

I went back to take some more e-​waste and found out they no longer will take it 6 days a week, but only certain days and hours.
Of course I showed up when they would not take my e-​waste and with gas still hovering around bucks a gallon a return trip was not in the cards.
I did find this place on Unilocal MRH Electronics Recycling
on Unilocal so I will take my e-​waste here and save the planet!

WeirdStuff is a Bay Area legend. If you are into electronics, computers, surplus equipment, you will be interested in seeing the inventory they have here. There are all kinds of odds and ends in their As-​Is area.
I remember WeirdStuf since the early 90’s when I was a kid and they were located near where Fry’s Electronics is located in Sunnyvale. It has changed since then, but it is still worthwhile to visit every so often. There was a time period I stopped going since the pricing got outrageous and the staff was not very approachable, but that seems to have improved more recently.

Really no reason to go here unless you need parts to repair an old computer or wanted to know what life was like in Silicon Valley before the turn of the century. The gamut ranges from dozens of used monitors to plastic tubs filled to the top with all types of remote controls. Most of the useful things they sell Halted also carries. They also have a test bench to try that computer out before you buy it, just in case.

There are not many of these places left. Where can you get a quad server for $ 100 or a 23″ monitor for $ 80. Hubs, Routers, KVM’s, UPS’s, this is the place to go to set up your home data center.
Used, but not just vintage electronics. When my friends are working on their certifications, they will go here to pick up an ESX or LINUX server on the cheap. I picked up Dual Xeon 5160/3.0 Ghz (up to two quad core), INTEL S5000PSL 1u server for $ 99.95.
Part dot-​com liquidation store /​Part museum. Chances are you’ll find that missing part or system here at a great price.
They recycle electronics too.

It’s nice to see that there is still somewhere to buy vintage electronics! I was in the market for some older electronic equipment, and (because of the raving Unilocal reviews) I decided to check out Weird Stuff! I was pleasantly surprised at their vast selection! I found just what I needed, but I ended up buying more than what I needed because I couldn’t let some of the stuff not come home without me.
I’ll be back!

Maybe they should just call this place «OLD Stuff Warehouse.» That’s what they had… OLD stuff. Nothing they sold was that weird except that it made me wonder who would buy all these OLD things. Old computer things that looked like parts i used to build my computer in 1998. I walked in and asked if they had a comb binding machine. They looked at me like I WAS WEIRD.
How Weird.

WeirdStuff has a huge stockpile of new and used computer electronics.
Desktops (even Bondi Blue iMacs), notebooks (broken and otherwise), operating system CDs, books, server racks, used BlackBerries, PDAs, 56K modems (I spied a cache of DSL equipment, too), Jaz and Zip drives, ISA and PCI cards, cables of every shape and size — there’s videogame gear, too. Want Atari or NES games? Xbox cables? I could’ve sworn I saw office furniture; I know I saw a few industrial coffee makers.
Broken or refurbished items are labeled as such. You might see laptops with screens past their prime, or simply missing hard drives. There’s a test bench to test devices that you’re unsure about.
There’s a veritable cornucopia of ancient tech up for bid. Looking through those was taking a step back in time.
WeirdStuff accepts donations, so recycle salvageable hardware and software for store credit!