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Everything for sale on this site seems to be a joke, but there are real firms that specialize in liquidating the assets of failed startups. There was an HN post

Everything for sale on this site seems to be a joke, but there are real firms that specialize in liquidating the assets of failed startups. There was an HN post about this a few weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42790536 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42790536

ridgewell 2y ago
I remember at the start of COVID, scoring a Steelcase Leap v2 from a guy who was scooping up office chairs from failed Silicon Valley startups and hauling them up to Canada. Super chill dude, and totally upfront about basically making a 100% profit margin by gluing on new armrests to these wholesale fire-sale finds. It really highlighted the interesting economics of the time - a lot of businesses probably thrived just by redistributing stuff from regions in freefall. You have to wonder how much of the "supply chain" was actually just people moving stuff from places that were dying to places still kicking. Kind of a morbid redistributive supply chain, when you think about it.
- withinboredom 2y ago
  I worked on warehouse software in the late aughts that did this in the housing shit in the us. Literally it was a bunch of companies buying pallets of shit from other companies. Basically, whomever was left holding the bag at the end, lost.
- RobotToaster 2y ago
  I think I got my V1 cheap when Lehman bros kicked the bucket.
- mlsu 2y ago
  These are fungal organisms that break apart dead matter. The ecosystem cannot survive without them.
brendanfinan 2y ago
I'd be surprised if $1 of cash changes hands due to this website. It seems like he whipped it up in an hour using Cursor to promote his main business, which he linked at the top of the page
- dartos 2y ago
  Is there anything about it that screams cursor to you? Or was that just a throwaway statement EDIT: nvm literally says at the bottom of the page
heshiebee 2y ago
Hey, I am the one that built it. A spammer added a bunch of fake listings, which have since been removed. Sorry about that.

ridgewell 2y ago

I remember at the start of COVID, scoring a Steelcase Leap v2 from a guy who was scooping up office chairs from failed Silicon Valley startups and hauling them up to Canada. Super chill dude, and totally upfront about basically making a 100% profit margin by gluing on new armrests to these wholesale fire-sale finds. It really highlighted the interesting economics of the time - a lot of businesses probably thrived just by redistributing stuff from regions in freefall. You have to wonder how much of the "supply chain" was actually just people moving stuff from places that were dying to places still kicking. Kind of a morbid redistributive supply chain, when you think about it.

withinboredom 2y ago
I worked on warehouse software in the late aughts that did this in the housing shit in the us. Literally it was a bunch of companies buying pallets of shit from other companies. Basically, whomever was left holding the bag at the end, lost.
RobotToaster 2y ago
I think I got my V1 cheap when Lehman bros kicked the bucket.
mlsu 2y ago
These are fungal organisms that break apart dead matter. The ecosystem cannot survive without them.

brendanfinan 2y ago

I'd be surprised if $1 of cash changes hands due to this website. It seems like he whipped it up in an hour using Cursor to promote his main business, which he linked at the top of the page

dartos 2y ago
Is there anything about it that screams cursor to you? Or was that just a throwaway statement EDIT: nvm literally says at the bottom of the page

heshiebee 2y ago

Hey, I am the one that built it. A spammer added a bunch of fake listings, which have since been removed. Sorry about that.