Jeannine, Funny, and well said. Serendipity happens, but it happens more often when it has your phone number. :)
Joshua Marpet DataDevastation On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 3:26 AM, Jeannine <flexkantoorkame...@gmail.com>wrote: > I literally walked into my conference room chairs and table at the > local version of the Goodwill -- they were offloading them from a > truck and had just picked them up. They also had some desks and so > forth in the truck. The woman who runs the place was mumbling to > herself about it. So I asked her what she wanted for the chairs and > she said she would sell me whatever was in the truck for a flat price > and deliver it, too if I would take it right then. Nowhere to put it > apparently. So I took it and what I did not need I sold off on the > local version of ebay. > > The office chairs I got from an auction site: a large office went > bankrupt and flooded the market with upscale secondhand furniture. > > However they appear, it seems that the adage "People with no money > need to be prepared to put time in instead" appears to apply, at least > for me. I went to the local Goodwill equivalent every week for a long > time, until they knew me and knew more or less what I wanted. > Nowadays they call me if something is coming in and I am talking to > them about setting up a page on my website to notify people about > things coming in -- because my website gets visited by starters and > businesses in transition. The people at the auction site sent me an > email about the auction because I had been contacting them > regularly. > > Some of it is just pure dumb luck; but in my experience pure dumb luck > happens more often when I am working at something. Opportunities > appear as they are seized. :-) > > Jeannine > On Feb 21, 10:53 pm, Ann Kingman <annking...@gmail.com> wrote: > > We're in the process of putting together a budget for the initial > furnishing > > of our space. > > We are hung up on chairs. > > I think good office chairs are very important, and probably key for > member > > retention. However, the cost of these chairs is freaking me out a bit. > It's > > not so bad when you think about buying one, but we're looking at probably > 20 > > to start, between the conference room and work desks. > > > > Any recommendations for sourcing? I hate to cheap out here, but I also > don't > > want this to be the thing that makes the space an unworkable concept. > > > > Thanks, > > Ann > > CoWork508 (right now just a concept) > > Attleboro, MA > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Coworking" group. > To post to this group, send email to coworking@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > coworking+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/coworking?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Coworking" group. To post to this group, send email to coworking@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to coworking+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/coworking?hl=en.
