Hi! I'm the proprietor of onionfutures.com. I'm actually not a member of UChicago for Our Futures and came up with the idea independently, but we've since connected and they handle our Chicago deliveries.
Re:San Francisco Onion Futures Company
by teaearlgraycold on Saturday September 19, 2026 @02:06AM
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I can confirm this person is the owner of onionfutures.com
I can confirm this person can confirm a11ce is the owner of onionfutures.com
Re:San Francisco Onion Futures Company
by jeffrallen on Saturday September 19, 2026 @08:26AM
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I can confirm that these people are silly.
Re:San Francisco Onion Futures Company
by brookst on Saturday September 19, 2026 @09:34AM
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[citation needed]
Are you really charging $9/onion? I get upset when Safeway charges $2/lb when I can get onions for a quarter that price.
Yes, it's primarily a novelty/art thing. But I do actually deliver the onions. Prices vary.
"Yes, it's primarily a novelty/art thing."
If you're going to do this with your life you have to believe that you're necessary - and you are - everyone wants to drive their fancy cars and their big fucking houses they can't afford they need you - you're necessary.
The only reason any of this works is (you) have (your) hand on the scale in their favor. (You) take it away, everything gets really fucking fair, really fucking fast - and don't no one want that.
They want all of the things (you) have to give them and .... then they want to pretend they don't know where it came from.
Priced to what the market can bear
Re:San Francisco Onion Futures Company
by IncreasePosts on Saturday September 19, 2026 @02:03AM
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Maybe it's a really big onion
Re:San Francisco Onion Futures Company
by bryanrasmussen on Saturday September 19, 2026 @03:24AM
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maybe it tastes more oniony than most onions, these onions are the essential onions of which other onions are mere shadows.
Re:San Francisco Onion Futures Company
by dcuthbertson on Saturday September 19, 2026 @04:54AM
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It's the mischief caused by shadow onions lurking in dark corners of the market bins that make me cry.
Re:San Francisco Onion Futures Company
by dgellow on Saturday September 19, 2026 @06:56AM
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“We are selling to willing buyers at the current fair market price”
Re:San Francisco Onion Futures Company
by doughecka on Saturday September 19, 2026 @07:58AM
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I read that in his voice.
Re:San Francisco Onion Futures Company
by sklargh on Saturday September 19, 2026 @01:36PM
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I give the scene to really junior people as the most realistic depiction of how to survive hammered in a late night high stakes meeting.
Re:San Francisco Onion Futures Company
by divbzero on Saturday September 19, 2026 @11:42AM
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“You will never sell anything to any of those people ever again.”
Re:San Francisco Onion Futures Company
by Drupon on Saturday September 19, 2026 @02:12AM
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I'm a young naive lad curious about this, have UChicago economics professors and/or grad students ever done something that might be considered like, idk, a crime against humanity stain on one's soul, in the past couple of decades?
Re:San Francisco Onion Futures Company
by hristov on Saturday September 19, 2026 @03:21PM
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They are not that silly. I am sure they are being secretly funded by the cbot. The idea may seem silly but apparently onion futures trading was big money when it was banned. It was the most lucrative futures contract for the cbot (Chicago board of trade).
They have a website also: https://onionfutures.org