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Howdy HN, as some of you may know from previous comments of mine, I’m always on the hunt for swag from dead companies (Lehman Brothers letterhead, Theranos shir
by sharkweek 4y ago
Howdy HN, as some of you may know from previous comments of mine, I’m always on the hunt for swag from dead companies (Lehman Brothers letterhead, Theranos shirts, Clinkle phone case, Enron desk art, et al). The more fraudulent the collapse, the more interested I am.
I’d love to get ahead of the ball on this one so if anyone here has any, and I mean any, FTX swag you somehow have picked up over the years, I’m a very motivated buyer. I’d also do unspeakable things for swag from any one of the subsidiaries on that absolutely ludicrous flow chart I’ve seen floating around.
I’m serious.
And whatever you do, don’t sell it to /u/filmgirlcw, she is also a collector of deadco swag, and thus my competition here.
- lancewiggs 4y agoPerhaps it would be better to say "you might also like to contact /u/filmgirlcw, who is also in the market (and here is how)" You are not in competition - you are both tiny versus the size of the market, and can work together to grow the amount of offers, thus lowering the overall price.
- tomcatfish 4y agoIt's a joke
- lancewiggs 4y agoOh - all good.
- edgyquant 4y agoThis is a very Reddit post, doesn’t really promote any kind of discussion at all.
- anikom15 4y agoI have a ton! But you can’t have any.
- ta988 4y agoGreat now we know how to put you both in competition to get better offers.
- deliminator 4y agoI got the swag pack back in the day. Email is in my profile.
- verst 4y agoDefinitely do sell it to /u/filmgirlcw. I can vouch for her being awesome. :)
- _gmax0 4y agoIs your collection for sale? I can pay in FTT.
- filmgirlcw 4y agoHey now! Absolutely do sell to me, there is definitely enough to go around in this case! (Sounds like you have a very cool collection, by the way!)
- xeromal 4y agoWhat size company are you looking for?
- rheffern 4y agoI'll hop on here in a vain hope too. I want to buy a Theranos Edison machine and am willing to pay. If you know anyone that has one, parts of one, or anything like that, my email is in my bio and I am very happy to talk to you. I intend to take a small portion of it, melt it into steel ingots, and include it in 'Order of the Engineer' rings for myself and my colleagues who are also engineers. We are looking for physical equipment in which engineers screwed up and the general public paid a high price for it, as a reminder to ourselves that our work is meaningful and is one of service to the people we serve with our efforts. If you know of any equipment that may fit that bill, I am looking to pay for that too.
- Arcuru 4y agoI can't help but that sounds awesome. I'm curious, have you already made any rings or are you still looking for the right equipment?
- rheffern 4y agoThe rings are given out by the OotE. We've not been able to source any 'failures' outside of some fragments of the space shuttles that fell on people's land. We're looking to get as many failures as we can before melting down out rings, casting in the debris in appropriate masses and compositions (they still needs to be steel rings at the end), and then reforging/casting the rings for all of us, with enough of an ingot left over to continue the process as 'failures' continue onward. It's entirely symbolic, but does take effort and time.
- sharkweek 4y agoMaybe a very long shot but in an earlier thread from a year or so ago about a similar topic, this HN user mentioned being in a Theranos facility during liquidation: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29791488 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29791488 Perhaps they’d be a good first step. Good luck, that’d be a hell of a find.
- rheffern 4y ago
- HideousKojima 4y agoAlong those lines, if anyone has a Spanish Jeb! 2016 hoodie (i.e. with the upside down exclamation mark) let me know
- hakehakehake 4y agoI have some solid scandal dead company swag gear but have no idea how to contact you.