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I really think that the resellers should offer a provenance. "This aeron has been through both the early twenties cryptocurrency bubble and the mid-twenties AI
by rsynnott 2y ago
I really think that the resellers should offer a provenance. "This aeron has been through both the early twenties cryptocurrency bubble and the mid-twenties AI bubble!"
There _has_ to be a collectors' market for this sort of thing. This beanbag was at Theranos!
- jjkaczor 2y agoheh - I bought a 17-year old Aeron in 2020 - 2nd best office purchase I ever made. (First was a Brother MFC office-class laser printer in 2016... still going strong, still gets driver updates for new OS's - and still allows me to use 3rd-party or refilled toner carts)
- zeroonetwothree 2y agoMy Brother from 2004 is still going strong
- bookofjoe 2y agoMy HP B210 inkjet from 2010 works just as well as it did the day I got it 15 years ago. Which means it takes about 3 minutes to warm up and make its Willy Wonka-like noises before spitting out a perfectly fine document. Believe it or not, wireless printing works just fine!
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- c6400sc 2y agoI call that trickle-down ergonomics.
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- sandworm101 2y agoDidn't theranos have a "no killing bugs" policy? I say let them keep the beanbag chairs. The PawnStars show had a great bit about valuing a hypothetical "Bill Clinton's lawn mower". Famous names dont necessarily make everything more valuable.
- daveguy 2y agoIt might get difficult to acquire lots if they start doing that. I doubt an in-bankrupt-proceedings company wants the provenance of their office gear on the internet. Maybe they can agree to a time delay of X years or months, and only with permission. If they start doing it across the board they could lose significant business. I like the idea though!
- somanyphotons 2y agoIf they're getting liquidated via bankruptcy, do they have the right to deny having it advertised in a way that would improve the item sale price?
- varsketiz 2y agoThis should obviously use blockchain! (jk)
- ak217 2y ago"This coffee machine was at a startup that tried to build a blockchain for tracing the provenance of auction items." Has a certain Ozymandias ring to it
- mmooss 2y agoPut small ID stamps on everything (or many things). It will start to acquire a history, like a passport or guitar case.
- huehehue 2y ago"This aeron offered through a liquidation sale by a company that once resold furniture from defunct dot-com startups, but is now itself going bankrupt"
- dewey 2y agoThere's always a lot of real (additionally to non-authentic) merchandise sold on Ebay from defunct startups. Theranos: https://www.ebay.com/itm/146096029198?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=cre_rtshq0i&sssrc=2047675&ssuid=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY https://www.ebay.com/itm/146096029198?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid...
- snowwrestler 2y agoIf you can overlook tech company logo embroidering, this is a great way to get really nice soft shell jackets for cheap. Like a Patagonia jacket that retailed for $200 will be $30 on eBay because of a small logo.
- jjice 2y agoI recall the hosts joking about this on Oxide and Friends, as they worked at Sun in the 90s up through the Sun acquisition. Some of their finds are hilarious. I think Brian had found a "Windows on MIPS" shirt at a thrift store?
- bcantrill 2y agoYes -- it was in fact an SGI t-shirt with the top ten reasons to run NT on MIPS (!!). It was even cringier than you might imagine, and included reasons like "SPARC shmark" (?) -- with the number one reason being "it's so fast it hertz." I would like to believe that this awful shirt was in fact an extraordinary act of subversion from within a once-great SGI, but no one is that good. Anyway, very much worth the twenty five cents I paid for it at the Palo Alto Goodwill!
- latchkey 2y agoIn 2018, I was in a datacenter 1.5 hours outside of Saigon, Vietnam and they had a Sun Microsystems rack wrapped in plastic just sitting there unused... probably worth at least 1M VND now... https://imgur.com/a/sun-rack-DOdq2Uc https://imgur.com/a/sun-rack-DOdq2Uc
- justinclift 2y agoSo, about US$40 you're thinking? Good racks can be pretty expensive... ;)
- Tistel 2y agoMight spawn a new occupation: sniff sommelier!
- ChuckMcM 2y agoThere is (a collector's market) of course, the provenance can be hard to come by though. There has always been a joke in the Bay Area about buying the product you helped design and ship at the "DeAnza Flea Market" (which is actually the AVSRO flea market[1] but was held in the DeAnza community college for many years). There is some nostalgia there, especially from former employees. But generally the 'premium' is limited[2]. Mostly because collectibles have to 'connect' with the collector in some way, and outside of a relatively small community a lot of startup stuff doesn't really make that connection. [1] https://www.electronicsfleamarket.com/ https://www.electronicsfleamarket.com/ [2] I have a super rare jacket from "First Person Inc" the wholly owned subsidiary Sun created for Project Green/Oak/Java that has an embroidered 'Fang' (the Java mascot) and the product name 'WebRunner'. Only given out to the original Java team. WebRunner was the name of the Hotjava browser before Sun's lawyers chickened out because Taligent had a similar trademark. I expect it is worth over 10 times what Bryan paid for the logowear t-shirt at Goodwill (0.25) :-). It would probably be worth more if was Gosling's jacket instead of mine.
- jszymborski 2y ago> an embroidered 'Fang' (the Java mascot) I thought Duke was the mascot. Is this some earlier mascot? https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Duke_(Java_mascot)_waving.svg#mw-jump-to-license https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Duke_(Java_mascot)_w...
- ChuckMcM 2y agoJoe Palrang (the guy who drew him) and the Java team called him 'Fang' (he looks like a tooth right?) Somebody didn't like that name (I don't recall if it was corporate or Kim Polese) and at some point the word went out that his name was "Duke".
- jszymborski 2y agoCool! Thanks for the history :) I genuinely never liked the name. Fang is much better.
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- Gothmog69 2y agoHope the beanbag wasn't at FTX :P
- Ancalagon 2y agodon't give them ideas
- jjav 2y agoI miss the times when stuff went to Weird Stuff for fun browsing.
- phendrenad2 2y agoGreat idea. Going to stencil "Property of Sun Microsystems" on some Aerons to instantly increase their resale value!
- msie 2y agoI have a stapler from Microsoft with Microsoft written on it!
- arcticbull 2y agoA bunch of random stuff in my apartment came from an old dating startup that listed all their office stuff on craigslist. Went down on a weekend and made silly offers on whatever seemed useful.
- timewizard 2y agoThis Aeron has an authentic Jeff Bezos head sweat stain.