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This looks like a product where some investor will end up with a few dozen railway cars full of unsaleable fidget spinners when the excitement dies down. Some
by hodgesrm 9y ago
This looks like a product where some investor will end up with a few dozen railway cars full of unsaleable fidget spinners when the excitement dies down.
Some VCs I know had a similar problem with garden gnomes a few years back. They used a few for office decorations and probably buried the rest.
- DanBC 9y agoBut unlike other fads the bearings have some minimal value, and fidget spinners are easy to breakdown into a pile of plastic and a pile of bearings.
- gm-conspiracy 9y agoThis is what I am waiting for - an abundant, inexpensive supply of bearings for projects.
- pbhjpbhj 9y agoThey're £3 (GBP) on eBay for a set of 4 scooter bearings. Which suggests they're pennies on AliBaba, perhaps cheaper without a (fake?) ABEC rating.
- gm-conspiracy 9y agoI don't want to wait 4 weeks to receive them, though.
- celticninja 9y agoYeah right now demand is outstripping supply, but I don't see that lasting very long.