Posted by GMAN on 04/22/06 00:34

In article <44477f4b.91268828@news-server.houston.rr.com>, spam@uce.gov wrote:
>On Thu, 20 Apr 2006 05:20:35 GMT, Roy L. Fuchs
><roylfuchs@urfargingicehole.org> wrote:
>
>>>Why buy someone's crap when you can get a new-in-box unit for a few
>>>bucks more.
>
>>>Ever wonder where those products go when consumers return them? Now
>>>you know.
>
>> The uninformed retard spews yet more utter crap.
>
>Ad hom noted.
>
>Deduct a point.
>
>>MOST of what is sold on ebay in the consumer electronics realm is
>>NEW
>
>You are so full of shit it's coming out your ears.
>
>My son and his buddies sell on Ebay and they buy crates of merchandise
>that was returned by consumers.
>

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, or there is something not right in Denmark!


>The items are functionally new in most cases - they were simply
>returned in an open box that the seller did not want to put back on
>the shelf.
>
>There is a Cambridge Soundworks computer speaker system that is being
>sold by several Ebay sellers for about $5 less than Cambridge sells
>their returned items. I wrote customer service and was informed that
>those Ebay items did not carry the Cambridge guarantee. They certainly
>were not NEW in the strictest sense of the word.
>
>>dumbass.
>
>Deduct another point.
>

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