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Posted by Bob on 04/22/06 13:06
On Sat, 22 Apr 2006 00:34:59 GMT, Not@home.now (GMAN) wrote:
>I worked in the computer retail business for 8 years and most of the time the
>manufacturers such as HP, Sony, Toshiba, Canon ,etc required the store to
>basically dumpster the returned items. Not only that, they required us to
>destroy by breaking into peices the returned printers and other items since they
>didnt want to hassle having CompUsa return them piece by piece to them. So
>either the source of the items your son is selling is different than what i
>descrbed,
One of the items my son was selling was a Panasonic microwave oven.
> or there is something not right in Denmark!
When did you last work in retail? A lot has changed, including the
popularity of Ebay. Now it is cost effective to resell returned items
so they do not end up in the dumpster.
I bought a $300 retail Carrier thermidistat for $85 that was
essentially new in the box. Someone bought it from a Carrier dealer
and returned it without even opening the box. So Carrier sold these
returns to a wholesaler who in turn sold them to an Ebay seller. That
same seller offers 1 each week so he must have gotten a crate full of
them.
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"A politician's neck should always have a noose around it.
It keeps him upright."
-Robert Heinlein
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