Wanted: WD1002-HDD docs or Teac SD-520U help

I would guess you are talking about the shipping bricks in the boxes fiasco. We had dealt with the people in questions who seemed to be very nice and reasonable people, amazing how nice crooks can be. We ended up not doing any business with them, which is probably for the good, since they were busted for the bricks in a box thing in the middle of what would have been our business cycle with them. An old company I worked for in the 70's had a Puerto Rican subsidiary which made terminals, core memory, and the like for them and shipped the goods to the US. I went to a scrapper in Covina, Ca who had bought a huge pile of terminals from them when they canceled the product, and went with an outside vendor. probably 500 terminals. He had paid pretty cheap for the pile, and was figuring on selling them for probably $50 or so each a really good deal. I looked at the ones he had opened before buying the pile, and they looked nice, but when I went to get a factory fresh one, luckily I opened that box, and noticed that the back looked funny. Turned out that they had shipped as fully functional terminals, the case, CRT, keyboard and a cardboard picture of what should have been the electronics on the back with a DB25 nicely bolted in the right place. Nothing else in the case. Needless to say, something had gotten completely away with the swindle, which was on the home company because noone at the place had discovered the problem. I made some calls which probably caused some grief, but the scrapper ended up stuck because the deals you make in that business is Buyer Beware, and whereis as is with a threshold warranty. Jim On 4/24/2011 2:33 PM, Philip Pemberton wrote: