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NEWS: A.D. Vision to Auction Surplus Office Supplies

samuelp wrote:

Uh, the auction is being held AT their warehouse, but I'm pretty sure that all that furniture and computers came from their main offices. At least last time I checked, you didn't tend to furnish your warehouse with Ikea desks and cubicle partitions. (or 50+ telephones).

But why would they bother to re-set up workspaces if all the stuff came from another location? You're right, I'm sure some of that stuff came from another location (ie all the stacks of filing cabinets and the CTR monitors) but all the desks and furniture in my office building are the same that are in the warehouse attached to my building.

Maybe it's just the PiQ staff stuff.

That doesn't sound snotty does it?

It wasn't a wholly unexpected closure -- the parent company is more-or-less run by the creditors at the bank, my 401(k) got cut off a couple weeks earlier and health insurance was undoubtedly following soon after, and the office was more empty and barren than most of New Mexico -- and I'm already just as busy with assorted freelance work.

(To get an idea of the state my old company is in, notice how they still haven't taken down our web page, with the final entry from the creative director placing all the blame for the closure on mismanagement up above. Ooooh burn.)

I get dibs on the stapler.

If the companies will just find some common ground and release shit, then they wouldn't be in this jam!!

daedelus wrote:

Now, more than ever, ADV needs the singles to sell. Yes, the cost of living(gas in particular) is up and so there's less disposable income, but so many people had that knee-jerk reaction to their licensing issue and stopped buying singles in lieu of a thinpak down the road, and it's killing the company. People who can afford it, I implore you to, for now, stop waiting for thinpaks of series that haven't finished releasing in singles, and buy those singles.

Um, based on his/her location the probability that this person works (or worked) for ADV is extremely high, so if you're going to scoff at what he/she has to say you're pretty much hammering a nail in ADV's coffin.

jeffk wrote:

Maybe it's just the PiQ staff stuff. That doesn't sound snotty does it?

That is about my guess.

ADV shut down PIQ a couple of weeks ago, presumably that would have left them with a lot of office related furniture to either
Store
Junk
Sell
Assuming they didn't own/have other plans for the building they were in, and the office wasn't rented furnished.

From a purely business point of view, it costs money to store, and even costs money to junk, so unless it's low volume/high cost items you try to sell or give it away (and make something back).

As I said on AOD, i've seen it happen even when companies are just moving to a new location, the cost of transporting the furniture from one office to another can be more than they are worth to the company, let alone storing them long term (taking up what is often valuable space), when you've shut down a department.

It's sad that ADV closed down PiQ and that people lost their jobs, but disposing of excess furnishings after that isn't something that should really be a surprise if they are vacating a rented/leased office that is no longer required.

Kevin's post is full of venom. He's pissed and lashing out.

The US anime industry is transforming and ADV along with the rest of the licensees are adapting. The strong companies will survive and ones operating on a shoestring will disappear. It's business.

If you have a house full of stuff you don't use mightn’t you have a garage sale? It may be the same thing at the home of ADV.

Will every one stop the doom and gloom. The whole economy is changing. First does any remember that ADV not a few months ago Had Kiba announced. Adv is downsizing and they need to do this. They lost alot of money with Sojitz so inorder to recover from that They needed to downsize and redirect. I believe that ADV will weather the storm. Also I think that thinpackes are the way to go. Single I think are what actually sent the companies in to this issue along with cost of series to get. I wish everyone stop it with the doom and Gloom