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Be Liquidation Sale
Anonymous Squonk writes: "Be's homepage has a message stating some of the details of their impending dissolution. One little item of note mentioned was 'Public Liquidation Auction January 16 (details to follow)' Who knows what kind of geek goodies might be available at rock bottom prices? Perhaps this could be our last chance to get our hands on a BeBox!" How about some of those nice LED CPU meters?
I want the minutes of the board meeting where Jean said "screw apple. we're intuitively obviously worth so much more than that."
Heck, that memo would probably raise more on Ebay than what they got from Palm..
Exactly. I've been to a few dot com auctions hoping to pick up some hardware on the cheap, however the stuff almost always ends up going for more than the cost of the same hardware new. For example, I was at one a while back where they had about 30 600 Mhz Gateways. That model had recently been discontinued and was replaced with a 750 Mhz model, which listed for something like $650 brand new. The used ones at the auction went for $800+.
I think what happens is that a company sends some clueless lackey to these things with instructions simply to buy some computers. They don't even bother checking what the stuff is actually worth.
Here's a new business model; start a company and buy a bunch of hardware. Play Quake for a few months with your friends and then announce that the unfortunate business climate has forced you to close up shop. Hold an auction and reap the profit. Repeat.
-Vercingetorix
"Necessitas non habet legem." -St. Augustine
are they going to hang out a Be For Sale sign? is that some fighting-terrorism-with-zen thing?
maybe now there'll be some more BeBoxes for sale...
FreeBSD for the impatient.
Between all the kids yelling "FIRST BID! FB!!!!" and the people holding up big pictures of a guy spreading his backside, nothing's gonna get sold.
Old massively parallel mainframe. Equivalent to a cluster of like 500 486's<SMALL>**</SMALL> or one Pentium 3. Get it now for only $500.
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<small>**This would not be an effective way to heat your home.</small>
There's a kind of auction fever that people get caught up in and if you're selling it's a good thing, if you're buying they you'd better learn to keep your trap shut, lest your friends find out and laugh at you. Lots of this goes on on eBay. I've sold items for insane amounts, but also sold things for far less than they are worth. You never know who's going to show up.
A bit of strategy if you're there competing with some purchasing drones. Walk around and audibly critique items, i.e.
"Oh, bummer this is the model without an internal power supply. It's as good as andfill."
"I think this one smells burnt, probably one of their parts boxen"
"This looks like the model which electrocuted workers, I wonder how it did that, could be a serious liability."
"Well no wonder they went out of business, this model is 5 years out of date and costs a fortune to maintain."
"Wow, I didn't know anyone even used these anymore, they only run a very expensive operating system based upon Cobol!"
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
I'm needing a replacement for my single-CPU doorstop. Two screamin' 66 MHz PowerPCs ought to hold my office door open twice as well as the PowerComputing Mac clone does now.
- A.P.
"Remember when the U.S. had a drug problem, and then we declared a War On Drugs, and now you can't buy drugs anymore?"
Be, Inc. has announced that it will be changing its name to Was Incorporated shortly after liquidating all of its assets.
They gingerly removed a foot long metal bar that was about 1/4" square in cross-section that had what looked like paint covering about 4" of one end
Let me guess - UPS ground?
Reboot macht Frei.
holy shit! are you serious?! there's actually a /. I missed!?!? How could this happen? I'd better check the archives!!
uhh, get a life there guy.