NCIX Bankruptcy Auction - Day 1
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·Linus Tech Tips
·2018-05-06
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1,970 words · ~9 min read
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it is official my friends
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the bankruptcy auction of my former employer
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ncix.com has begun it's today i've got
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my voter card this is my registration so it's the previewing day we're going
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to go in we're going to see what's what and then we're actually going to come
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back tomorrow the ncis tech tips gold
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so i've been to auctions run by these guys before and it was at their facility
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and everything was kind of like put into bins and carts
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but on location the rules are a little different like even at the check-in desk
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the computer's here they're up for auction
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you just you go ever like is this toilet plunger up for auction
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no no it's not okay so not everything but a lot of things
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so in here is where they used to assemble all the ncix pc computers i was
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actually in here must have been i don't know a month or
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two ago and i was chatting with the uh the owner former owner i don't know how
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that works but i was in here and it was like crazy like basically
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screwdrivers down it looked like everyone went home for
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the day and then just never came back so they've they've kind
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of staged things a little bit to make it look a little more you know
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auctiony it looks like any machines that were in
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the process of being built and or like this one's got a lot of dust in it look
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at this and or i don't know maybe we're in for
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repair or we're being used as demo systems have just kind of been set up all along the
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counters here for people to to bid on them
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some pretty good stuff in here so the way that these auctions work is
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everything is kind of grouped into lots so you can't just bid on this sapphire
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hd 2600 xt as though you would want to
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you got to buy this uh one terabyte two and a half inch hard
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drive uh this test blank
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no way oh man there is so much
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like epic loot here look at this
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alienware compute2000 stress balls
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this is doing nothing for my stress right now
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you could do like a a techie archaeological dig in this place and
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that was already true when i left five years ago
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please keep this door closed what are you gonna do about it
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oh lock it all right okay this is fun uh we found a
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home for the stress ball i found on the floor my stress stress is all gone now uh and
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we've got some other good stuff here too so this this was my bad
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like eight years ago i cut a po for this
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this is the mountain mods uh it's uv
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green acrylic stylish that that stayed fashionable uv
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green acrylic and it's an external radiator mount with like these handles
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on the top so you would basically like separate them and then you would screw
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in your radiator on both sides and you could just mount the radiator and just plunk it down on your desk needless to
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say that concept didn't really take off and making matters worse if you were to
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buy one of these today i hope you have a thermo-chill pa series radiator because
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otherwise it won't fit and those have been discontinued for over half a decade
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so sorry ncix i done goofed on that one
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another thing i bought that never sold um these the mod smart these were the
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primo chill guys sometimes they moved okay some colors
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though not as successful as others more danger den stuff
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oh no an am2 hold down for the swiftech storm
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oh oh okay here's another good one i guarantee you i bought this too uh
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apogee gt yep so i actually cut my teeth
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as a product manager on the water cooling category because no one else
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wanted to do it look at that yellow label there baby this is the db1 from
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d-tec do you guys remember d-tech
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i didn't think so danny from d-tech good guy good guy man
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they made the best barbs in the game back when barbed fittings were cool
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this is a fun bin if you want some truly legacy stuff like this looks really good
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but this is a gtx 760 and this doesn't
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even look good but it's like funnier than it than it looks it looks like a
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crappy graphics card uh-uh this is a pci card this is a fizz x card fizz x by
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ajiya these x
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this is the future
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okay i need to find out how much the minimum bid is because like
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i just want to do a retro unboxing of office xp professionals still sealed
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adobe illustrator cs2 like clearly not worth anything but
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it's an upgrade you have to have cs1
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terrible now that is a dead operating system if i've ever seen one
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hey i've got an ipad too
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here's a pink case for it um as long as i'm willing to buy
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uh 30 of them and also
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holy crap there's like a couple hundred cases for
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the galaxy note not the note
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three or no five or no eight
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the original galaxy note
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oops that wasn't me what is this stuff
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okay so the way these things work like everything is as is
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where it is so a box like this
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might be a treasure check this out this is z270 something no
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x99 not z270 so like
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whatever's in here is in here
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also not z270 that's another x99 board
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it's got like laptops
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for days in here and boxes for like
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phones and stuff too like is this a blackberry phone no see empty
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box um
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but this feels like there could be a p9 plus inside
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and there isn't so so you get you gotta go through this
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stuff pretty carefully one thing i know for sure though is that
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craigslist is going to be flush
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with uh hardware deals hardware deals
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for days on craigslist with markup after this auction
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i mean it is kind of depressing to think about
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it being reduced to this like to the point where
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your promotional pens are in a bin for auction one day this could be us
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now this kind of stuff is sad like i remember irene i worked with irene
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she doesn't have a job anymore um
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yeah she was really nice
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i guess i didn't really have anywhere to go with that
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yeah no i actually have nowhere to go with that that's kind of a bummer i wonder what
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irene's stuff is in here
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a sears bag and some gloves
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holy is this all of the customer records
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this isn't for sale right
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throw away okay yeah good i
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shred hopefully okay so here's all the good stuff here's
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a bunch of like current motherboards uh x370 pros like here's a rampage
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5 edition 10. it's like a 600 700 board
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uh here's all the graphics cards that are worth anything as well so your 1060s
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1070s i mean this should give you some idea how bad the GPU shortage was that a
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retailer went out of business and had literally
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20 graphics cards in stock oh
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wow they've still got one of the water cooled fx processors
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ooh and a core i7 extreme from like four
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or five years ago ouch you can buy all the lunchroom chairs lunchroom
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microwaves mini fridge this is the aquarium as i called it or
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the boardroom i just felt like i felt like a fish
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sitting in here this was the ceo's office
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so apparently he set it up with a projector
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at some point it wasn't like this the last time i was hanging around here but
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uh i've had a couple of actually i've had a couple of very tense meetings in this
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room so someone had told me that the gold play button was in the ceo's office
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but i didn't see it there do you know if the gold youtube play
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button is here okay so i'm messaging my old boss because i really want that gold
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play button um but in the meantime we did get some
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clarification on this one there is an auction lot for it
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but here get get wide because there's a lot of stuff i got to show here
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to buy it i have to buy all of these
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awards all of this crap
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this dinosaur this uh basketball signed by dirk meyer
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um this tv this stand
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and these two plants over here
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really for a silver button
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oh it's been a long time since i've been
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here so it wasn't the wisest move ever but
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yep it was my call to do half of the room
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green screen green and half of it so this is actually the original chroma
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key blue and then they repainted this one for when the other team moved over
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here after they got booted out of their previous studio um we uh the idea was
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we'd be able to green or blue screen in this room but what happened in practice
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was um we just ended up with a lot of green cast on everything that we shot on
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the blue wall this will be the last time i ever walked
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through here i haven't been here in like
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well over two years three years
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huh well i guess this is as good a place as
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any to end our tour um
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i guess we'll be back tomorrow with bidding
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