On Wed, 02 Nov 2005 17:50:22 -0800
"Stan Sieler" <sieler at allegro.com> wrote:
Re:
A California bankruptcy court will sell
Interex's membership database to the
The mailing list ostensibly had about 100,000+ names on it.
There were 3 bidders: #1 (Genisys), #2 anonymous, and #3 anonymous.
Bidding started at about $15,000, and ended with an anonymous
buyer getting it for $65,000. At that point, the successful bidder's
identity was revealed.
Quick...who'd pay that much?
Nope...not IBM (my first guess).
HP.
Yes, HP paid $65,000 for a list of their own EX-customers!
I hope that HP isn't going to try to pull a fast one like "credit
the $65,000 against the money Interex owes us", because that would mean
they're getting 1-for-1 on the money owed them, where other creditors
will end up getting far far less per dollar owed :)
But, the way this is being handled by "the court",
it wouldn't surprise me :(
Sounds like HP paid $65K to keep anybody else from getting a list of their own
ex-customers.
Which seems like a reasonable thing to do, really. And it's chump-change for HP.