30 Nov
2001
30 Nov
'01
12:13 a.m.
At 12:45 PM 11/30/01 +0100, you wrote:
It can get down right ridiculous.
I once worked for a company in the UK who were working on some hardare
which was being developed in Japan. The Japanese sent over three or four
prototypes which, for reasons I now forget, we never used. A few months
after the Japanese asked that we ship the protoypes back for scrapping!
I dread to think of the costs involved.
Last year I bought a LARGE crate full of brand new sealed boxs of 8"
floppy disks for $50. After buying it I found that the company had shipped
them back to the US from Germany, never opened the crate and then sold it
for scrap. I'm sure they scrapper gave them less than $10 for the whole
thing. I must have cost them 50 times that to ship them back from Germany.
Joe