My dentist keeps yacht sale and swap magazines in his waiting room, which are all ads, but they're completely irrelevant to me and fascinating. That's how I feel about this ad.
No complaints here. I wasn’t interested and projected that expectation on others. My mistake.
Are you saying it was sponsored? At any rate, it's clear that many people in this thread don't know that this is a type of business that exists—evidently they did experience the first dot com crash, or the second dot com crash. So, there is informational value at least.
PR works by offering interesting stories to journalists whose message is beneficial to the original group.
A very interesting one, BTW
This is a site related to tech startups. While content here is not intended to solely be focused on that, development of good business sense is relevant.
Buying used but functional equipment and saving your start-up money makes for good business.