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Posted by GMAN on 04/23/06 04:53
In article <444a2928.154256468@news-server.houston.rr.com>, spam@uce.gov wrote:
>On Sat, 22 Apr 2006 00:34:59 GMT, Not@home.now (GMAN) wrote:
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>>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.
The manufacturers demand that the items be destroyed. they DO NOT give
permission for your son and his boxer short backwards hat buddies to take items
home from the back of the store and sell on ebay for cash!
I bet if the store in question found out, he'd be arrested or at least fired. If
its a major retail store, they can loose their ability to carry that
manufacturers items anymore.
>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.
>
That is different, that is the manufacturer reselling the items to wholesalers
who then have permission to sell as freight damaged goods. This is a huge
difference from what your son is doing reselling goods that were supposed to
be destroyed.
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