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Re: Twitter Office Supply Auction

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Post by jimnotgym »

pavlov wrote: post #11
ShivShankaran wrote: post #5

I am struggling to think how Elon is going to pay the interest on the loan he took for buying Twitter. On other hand his collateral , tsla stock, is crashing. He got carried away to make this purchase during the rising tide of covid bull market. I suspect this is going to severely affect both tsla and twtr

Apparently he’s looking to replace some of the expensive debt with new margin loans backed by his TSLA shares: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-12-08/musk-bank... IMO this Twitter deal has been nothing but bad news for Tesla shareholders. The CEO is completely distracted and forced to sell his shares, and the company has been dragged into stupid culture wars. Tesla brand perception has crashed among Democ…

> IMO this Twitter deal has been nothing but bad news for Tesla shareholders

Can they do anything about it? Or is he protected like that Facebook Zucker?

Re: Twitter Office Supply Auction

#42

Post by capableweb »

huhtenberg wrote: post #34

Damn, a prosciutto slicer! https://www.bidspotter.com/en-us/auction-catalogues/heritage... This auction is clearly not for just the _office_ supplies, but still.

On that topic, the fridges and freezers currently have bids lower than the fucking tables, which is insane. Those are way worth way more than the current bids at 25 USD.

Edit: seems I misunderstood and it's just the opening bids, the bidding hasn't started yet. Still strange that the opening bids are higher for a table than restaurant-style fridges/freezers.

Re: Twitter Office Supply Auction

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Post by Closi »

capableweb wrote: post #42
huhtenberg wrote: post #34

Damn, a prosciutto slicer! https://www.bidspotter.com/en-us/auction-catalogues/heritage... This auction is clearly not for just the _office_ supplies, but still.

On that topic, the fridges and freezers currently have bids lower than the fucking tables, which is insane. Those are way worth way more than the current bids at 25 USD. Edit: seems I misunderstood and it's just the opening bids, the bidding hasn't started yet. Still strange that the opening bids are higher for a table than restaurant-style fridges/freezers.

None of the auctions are open for bidding - you are just looking at the start price.

Re: Twitter Office Supply Auction

#46

Post by mstade »

capableweb wrote: post #42
huhtenberg wrote: post #34

Damn, a prosciutto slicer! https://www.bidspotter.com/en-us/auction-catalogues/heritage... This auction is clearly not for just the _office_ supplies, but still.

On that topic, the fridges and freezers currently have bids lower than the fucking tables, which is insane. Those are way worth way more than the current bids at 25 USD. Edit: seems I misunderstood and it's just the opening bids, the bidding hasn't started yet. Still strange that the opening bids are higher for a table than restaurant-style fridges/freezers.

Those are just the starting bids. Bidding doesn't open until mid January, I think.

Re: Twitter Office Supply Auction

#47

Post by nmridul »

sethd wrote: post #20
ShivShankaran wrote: post #5

I am struggling to think how Elon is going to pay the interest on the loan he took for buying Twitter. On other hand his collateral , tsla stock, is crashing. He got carried away to make this purchase during the rising tide of covid bull market. I suspect this is going to severely affect both tsla and twtr

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The poster you are replying to could possibly be Indian. Possibly this could be one reason (Disclaimer - I am just assuming and not answering for him)

In India last name could mean anything ranging your "caste" / religion / community / god / place / family / fathers name / or any other random stuff.

Singh is a common last name and if you go to some parts and call Mr. Singh and possibly 100's would respond. And there are people with surname "Bangalore" because they were born there.

And in my part of South India, some of our last name is "First name" of our parents (mostly Father.. nowadays people also started adding their mother's first name). So my name is "My first name" + "My father's first name. And my son is named "Son's first name" + "My First name". It continues this way.

So most of us use the First name to mention someone. And you can see many Indian's making the mistake of addressing some one as "Mr. First name" though the proper usage is "Mr. Last name".

I had this difficulty when in Germany a government office asked why I have a different surname from my kid's and I had a hard time explaining it :)

Re: Twitter Office Supply Auction

#48

Post by Closi »

marbu wrote: post #36
bhouston wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you have less offices you have less needs for corporate branding. If you were to consolidate all branding into the remaining offices it would take up too much space. You can not be sentimental about this stuff.

Right, but when it comes to their branding stuff, I would expect the company to either store it (if they have enough space somewhere) or move it straight to trash. Selling their corporate logos for 25 USD looks like they are being liquidated and closing the shop. I can't understand how someone even come up with such idea ...

Companies do this sort of stuff all the time. Loads of companies sell merch, and even very brand-sensitive companies will sell old equipment for fans/nostalgia (see: Disneyland selling old animatronics and ride vehicles).

They aren't selling it for 25 USD anyway, it's a start price at an auction. I listed my iPad at a $0.01 start price, but that doesn't mean I'm broke and need the penny :)

Re: Twitter Office Supply Auction

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Post by lapcat »

QuadmasterXLII wrote: post #29

A useful comparison for discussion:reddit has 700 employees and twitter had 7000.

Reddit has an army of unpaid moderators. Not to mention the Reddit users who upvote and downvote.

Also, politicians and other important public figures don't use Reddit like they use Twitter.

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