Re: [Coworking] Re: Chairs
When we purchased our space we picked up some cheap furniture from the previous occupants, including a heap of office chairs for around $30 each. They are for the use of members, however we encourage everyone to purchase their own chairs and bring them in. This works for everyone - people that don't care about their chair save money and aren't forced to pay higher membership fee to cover the cost of chairs they don't want. And those who do think it's worth investing in a good chair probably want to choose their own anyway, and their lower membership fees help them justify spending their own money to buy one. It also means one less admin issue - if our cheap chairs break we'll just throw them out, and if members chairs break they can get them repaired (hopefully under warranty) themselves. Marc Marc Harrison Six8 Bromham Richmond, VIC, Australia. -- 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.
Re: [Coworking] Re: Chairs
We didn't buy chairs. I know it sounds funny, but it would have cost a ton. Viable chairs cost around $250 USD here, and the coworking dues are only $110. So we tell people to buy their own chair and bring it. We bought a few for drop-in's. We did provide tables / desks. We're just now ordering chairs for the conference room, 3 years in. -evan CoworkingMVD Montevideo, Uruguay On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 11:28 AM, Joshua Marpet jmar...@datadevastation.com wrote: 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. -- 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.
Re: [Coworking] Re: Chairs
evan, Fascinating. Thanks for sharing. I will keep that in the back of my mind if we need it! Best, Ann CoWork508 (in progress) Attleboro, MA On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 5:22 PM, evan e...@protest.net wrote: We didn't buy chairs. I know it sounds funny, but it would have cost a ton. Viable chairs cost around $250 USD here, and the coworking dues are only $110. So we tell people to buy their own chair and bring it. We bought a few for drop-in's. We did provide tables / desks. We're just now ordering chairs for the conference room, 3 years in. -evan CoworkingMVD Montevideo, Uruguay On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 11:28 AM, Joshua Marpet jmar...@datadevastation.com wrote: 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. -- 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.
Re: [Coworking] Re: Chairs
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.comwrote: 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.
