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The contents of the defunct Shoes.com head office will be auctioned off this week in what’s being called the “largest office auction in years.”

The Vancouver online shoe retailer announced in late January it would cease operations and that some or all of its companies would declare bankruptcy. The shuttered properties included shoes.com, shoeme.ca, and onlineshoes.com, as well two brick-and-mortar shops in Vancouver and Toronto. It had previously been lauded as Canada’s hottest startup.

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Able Auctions, which also hosts the Vancouver Police Department’s seized goods auction each year, shared a Facebook post and video Friday that said it had been tapped to help liquidate office equipment for Shoeme.

“You heard it in the news … ShoeMe.com went bankrupt,” the post read. “We’re auctioning off the contents of their head office at one of our biggest office auctions ever.”

Items up for auction include hundreds of IBM laptops and computers, about 50 Apple computers, laptops and tablets, IT equipment, office chairs and desks, a Brother embroidery machine, and more than 200 LCD monitors. Also up for auction are a ping pong table, a kayak, office phones, photocopier/printers, and a number of mini-fridges.