[ridgewell]

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.

[mlsu]

These are fungal organisms that break apart dead matter. The ecosystem cannot survive without them.

[RobotToaster]

I think I got my V1 cheap when Lehman bros kicked the bucket.

[withinboredom]

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.