Followup On ADV Auction
Dated: 26 Jun 2008
This is the closest the western anime world will ever get to 24/7, wall-to-wall coverage, btw.
AoD has now gotten a letter from Chris Oarr, who says that ADV is just selling off surplus stuff– they HAVE closed down a lot of departments in the last year or so, so it makes sense they’d have leftovers from those employees. (He even suggests that someone could by the chair used by former Newtype USA editor Chris Johnston, who broke the news about the auction on AoD’s forums.) Oarr also refers to himself as a “current ADV employee.”
Translation: “nothing to see here, folks. Move along.” (Though I quite like Oarr’s postscript: “P.S. Mention you heard about it on AoD and receive a free stapler with every purchase.”)
June 26th, 2008 at 9:05 am
[...] I hope she’s right, that we do hear something more after Anime Expo next weekend. Then Chris Oarr responded that it’s just an auction of surplus material. He’s very good at seeming to answer [...]
June 26th, 2008 at 10:47 am
Damn, I just linked to that article in a comment in your other post about the auction.
The Daily Show photoshop is a nice touch.
June 26th, 2008 at 1:02 pm
Not acquiring any new material, laying off employees, selling off office furniture?
Yeah. The company is real healthy. I’m still expecting the news to drop at AX.
June 26th, 2008 at 7:01 pm
It’s too bad. I’ve always liked ADV, and it’s not nice to see a good company failing.