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It’s also not really a bay era specific phenomenon here. Any reasonably sized city has a retailer that buys up used office stock for whatever reason at auction
by SOLAR_FIELDS 2y ago
It’s also not really a bay era specific phenomenon here. Any reasonably sized city has a retailer that buys up used office stock for whatever reason at auction and resells it. And it’s not just “failed companies”, anytime a company upgrades its furniture it usually liquidates in a similar fashion.
- ghaff 2y agoYeah. For a company going under, probably selling off furniture piecemeal is somewhere near the bottom of their priority list. There are companies specializing in this sort of thing. Unless you're will to do this for free at a startup, that probably isn't a good priority.
- m463 2y agoI don't know, silicon valley has had some interesting things for sale. the pictures in this article aren't particularly compelling though. I remember in the post-internet-bubble seeing almost-new aeron chairs sold in huge quantities. Now it is less of a big deal. The aeron chairs are less iconic nowadays. When Weird Stuff Warehouse was still around, it was like computer geology viewing the strata. You could go deeper into the store and back in time to see expensive machines of a decade ago sold for nothing. I remember thinking - that server would make a good end table conversation piece! I also remember them selling brightly colored silicon graphics workstations.