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   but they are so comfortable.

   

   Anonymous Coward, Aug 7th, 2001 @ 7:36am

   
   

   Have you ever sat in one? I have an Aeron chair which I bought new from a dot-com during the glory days. They beat ordinary cheap desk chairs to a pulp.

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   My Ass...

   

   Ed, Aug 7th, 2001 @ 8:36am

   
   

   ...is firmly planted in one as I speak, and I'm not at a dot com. For someone who spends 8+ hours a day at a computer workstation, (said workstation costing tens of thousands and said person costing hundreds of thousands) a few hundred bucks on a decent chair is not a big deal.
   

   
   I'd agree that other "facilities" foosball tables are getting excessive, but let's look at the excessive "launch" parties ("launch" is quoted because it's hard to have a launch if you don't actually have a product, IMHO), as the sign of dot-com excess, not the chairs.

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   Another followup

   

   Ed, Aug 7th, 2001 @ 10:53am

   
   

   It's mentioned in the article that Aeron chairs are still fetching a lot of money at dead dot com auctions. If that's the case, even at 50 cents on the dollar, then they are arguably some of the better investments that the dot coms made.

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   Airons are great but...

   

   Henkel-Wallace, Aug 7th, 2001 @ 6:07pm

   
   

   Ppl at my company buy their own, and we have a label on each marked "Personal property -- Do not inventory" for the benefit of jumpy VCs who visit (and to keep people from asking for one "just like the one the company bought Fred").
   
   At a dotcom auction they were a great deal -- $50 each.

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