Howdy HN, as some of you may know from previous comments of mine, I’m always on the hunt for swag from dead companies (Lehman Brothers letterhead, Theranos shirts, Clinkle phone case, Enron desk art, et al). The more fraudulent the collapse, the more interested I am.
I’d love to get ahead of the ball on this one so if anyone here has any, and I mean any, FTX swag you somehow have picked up over the years, I’m a very motivated buyer. I’d also do unspeakable things for swag from any one of the subsidiaries on that absolutely ludicrous flow chart I’ve seen floating around.
I’m serious.
And whatever you do, don’t sell it to /u/filmgirlcw, she is also a collector of deadco swag, and thus my competition here.
I want to buy a Theranos Edison machine and am willing to pay. If you know anyone that has one, parts of one, or anything like that, my email is in my bio and I am very happy to talk to you.
I intend to take a small portion of it, melt it into steel ingots, and include it in 'Order of the Engineer' rings for myself and my colleagues who are also engineers.
We are looking for physical equipment in which engineers screwed up and the general public paid a high price for it, as a reminder to ourselves that our work is meaningful and is one of service to the people we serve with our efforts. If you know of any equipment that may fit that bill, I am looking to pay for that too.
Maybe a very long shot but in an earlier thread from a year or so ago about a similar topic, this HN user mentioned being in a Theranos facility during liquidation: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29791488
We've not been able to source any 'failures' outside of some fragments of the space shuttles that fell on people's land.
We're looking to get as many failures as we can before melting down out rings, casting in the debris in appropriate masses and compositions (they still needs to be steel rings at the end), and then reforging/casting the rings for all of us, with enough of an ingot left over to continue the process as 'failures' continue onward.
It's entirely symbolic, but does take effort and time.
Perhaps it would be better to say "you might also like to contact /u/filmgirlcw, who is also in the market (and here is how)"
You are not in competition - you are both tiny versus the size of the market, and can work together to grow the amount of offers, thus lowering the overall price.
I’d love to get ahead of the ball on this one so if anyone here has any, and I mean any, FTX swag you somehow have picked up over the years, I’m a very motivated buyer. I’d also do unspeakable things for swag from any one of the subsidiaries on that absolutely ludicrous flow chart I’ve seen floating around.
I’m serious.
And whatever you do, don’t sell it to /u/filmgirlcw, she is also a collector of deadco swag, and thus my competition here.