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From: "Guy Sotomayor" <ggs at shiresoft.com>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
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Sent: Tuesday, November 24, 2009 12:39 PM
Subject: Re: Ten Year Rule
On Nov 24, 2009, at 9:21 AM, Teo Zenios wrote:
B&W G3's were giveaways a year ago or two ago, early G4 towers seem to
heading there now. You have a window of a few years before the price
start rising again and the units become hard to find (they all get
recycled). Makes me wonder why recyclers have not opened up a warehouse
to hold onto the better/cleaner systems for 5 years and make a profit
selling on ebay or their own websites.
Because warehouse space isn't free, taxes on inventory, etc. The (sad?)
reality is that from an economic standpoint it's much better for them to
get the scrap value now vs holding on for 5+ years.
TTFN - Guy
Yea, like the scrappers around here pay taxes on anything. Every once in a
while somebody brings in and old mint machine sometimes even with the
original packaging that has much more collectable value then scrap value,
stuff that on a shelve and wait a bit longer and profit. No need to hoard
everything that comes in, just stuff them on shelving out of the way.
Granted from what I seen locally the scrappers prize anything P4 or later
and they get refurbed and resold (killing the used PC market for others who
have to pay for machines to upgrade), but leaving the real old stuff for me
pretty cheap so I guess I should not complain.