Posted by GMAN on 04/23/06 04:54

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:
>
>>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.
>
>
My followup was meant for Royl Fu#ks , not you Bob.

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