<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><FONT SIZE=2>In a message dated 12/17/01 7:06:13 PM Eastern Standard Time, buchty@cs.tum.edu writes:
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<BR><BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">Remembers me of my AMD times... When a customer went bancrupt the
<BR>returning chips had to be destroyed since they have been already booked
<BR>as a loss.
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<BR>Thanks to the janitor (who had to do the cruel work of destruction) I was
<BR>able to get some piles of EPROMs and MACHs here and there - promising that
<BR>they will never ever enter the market again.
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<BR>I've been told that that destruction game is played in electronics stores
<BR>as well - if e.g. TV sets don't sell (not even at dumping prices) they
<BR>just have to be destroyed.</BLOCKQUOTE>
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<BR>The destruction game is played by a lot of such outfits...of course, the people who play the destruction game with them play their own games as well. A friend of mine who I met through the remarketing business (who shall remain *very* nameless), bought 50 or so of a certain very high end computer peripheral (also nameless), from a company who shall also remain nameless. He got new bogus serial numbers printed for these units and sold them, using an assumed name....at a profit of around $200,000. Crime does pay in some cases, it seems.
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<BR>-Chris</FONT></HTML>