29 Nov
2001
29 Nov
'01
8:14 a.m.
> Is there some law against selling the stuff in
working condition?
Contract Law. While most surplus sales are outright
sales many are contract
sales which may have restrictive clauses. How willing the scrapper is to
violate contract law, a civil matter, varies widely.
Ok, so then there is no direct law that says items sold as scrap have to
remain scrap. So if a company sells 1000 working computers as scrap, and
doesn't specify that they have to be destroyed (although I am sure they
would specify that), then the scrapper is under no obligation to trash
them, and can sell them as working systems.
That is kind of what I thought the deal would be (and should be).
-chris
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