15 Jun
2007
15 Jun
'07
3:08 p.m.
From: Al Kossow <aek at spies.com>
Subject: warning about dealing with Government Liquidation
Apparently, G L sells items that in fact weren't supposed to be sold,
forcing the buyers to return them!
It only reimburses you for the cost of the item, not the shipping.
Be VERY careful about what you buy through them!
Read the fine print on the government as well as GL sales site agreement.
This is the second incident like this I've heard about in the past week.
Hmmmmm
'Sorry guv, it turned out it wasn't what I wanted so I dumpstered it'
'terribly sorry old chap, I've already sold it on'
Or any other excuse you care to think up.
That's really lousy behaviour - they can't change the rules after you've
bought it, surely? And if they're going to add insult to injury by refusing
to pay shipping then they can hardly expect cooperation...
Mike
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15 Jun
15 Jun
3:38 p.m.
Mike Ross wrote:
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From: Al
Kossow <aek at spies.com>
Subject: warning about dealing with Government Liquidation
Apparently, G L sells items that in fact weren't supposed to be sold,
forcing the buyers to return them!
It only reimburses you for the cost of the item, not the shipping.
Be VERY careful about what you buy through them!
Read the fine print on the government as well as GL sales site agreement.
This is the second incident like this I've heard about in the past week.
Hmmmmm
'Sorry guv, it turned out it wasn't what I wanted so I dumpstered it'
'terribly sorry old chap, I've already sold it on' 
15 Jun
15 Jun
4:10 p.m.
>Apparently, G L sells items that in fact
weren't supposed to be sold,
>forcing the buyers to return them!
>
>It only reimburses you for the cost of the item, not the shipping.
>
>Be VERY careful about what you buy through them!
>
>Read the fine print on the government as well as GL sales site agreement.
>
>This is the second incident like this I've heard about in the past week.
...and the zillionth since 1944.
This rule has ALWAYS been in place, and yes, the government does act
on it every so often. Seasoned surplus dealers just live with it, and
do not bid on things that may be fishy.
--
Will
5:04 p.m.
On 15 Jun 2007 at 16:10, William Donzelli wrote:
This rule has ALWAYS been in place, and yes, the
government does act
on it every so often. Seasoned surplus dealers just live with it, and
do not bid on things that may be fishy.
Maybe the story's on the web somewhere, but I seem to recall a used-
car salesman about a dozen years ago purchasing most of a nuclear
fuel reprocessing plant. Even more interesting was that he obtained
blueprints and other documentation for it under FOIA.
I don't know whatever became of the loot.
Cheers,
Chuck
5:10 p.m.
On 6/15/07, Chuck Guzis <cclist at sydex.com> wrote:
Maybe the story's on the web somewhere, but I seem
to recall a used-
car salesman about a dozen years ago purchasing most of a nuclear
fuel reprocessing plant. Even more interesting was that he obtained
blueprints and other documentation for it under FOIA.
I don't know whatever became of the loot.
Mailed overseas in boxes marked "Kitchen Utensils"?
-ethan
6:35 p.m.
LOL!!! (while cringing a bit too...)
Ethan Dicks wrote:
On 6/15/07, Chuck Guzis <cclist at sydex.com>
wrote:
Maybe the story's on the web somewhere, but I
seem to recall a used-
car salesman about a dozen years ago purchasing most of a nuclear
fuel reprocessing plant. Even more interesting was that he obtained
blueprints and other documentation for it under FOIA.
I don't know whatever became of the loot.
Mailed overseas in boxes marked "Kitchen Utensils"?
-ethan
7:04 p.m.
Some years ago, an old decomissioned Cobalt-60
radiation therapy machine that had been sold to a
Mexican hospital ended up in a lot of scrap metal.
The problem was detected when a truckload of "hot"
steel rebar set off the radiation detectors when
coming *into* one of the weapons labs. It turned out
some of the metal had ended up in the cast-iron stands
for restaurant tables (McDonald's, I think). I wonder
how much of this radiactive metal was never located...
--Bill
8:38 p.m.
On 6/15/07, William Maddox <wmaddox at pacbell.net> wrote:
Some years ago, an old decomissioned Cobalt-60
radiation therapy machine that had been sold to a
Mexican hospital ended up in a lot of scrap metal.
The problem was detected when a truckload of "hot"
steel rebar set off the radiation detectors when
coming *into* one of the weapons labs. It turned out
some of the metal had ended up in the cast-iron stands
for restaurant tables (McDonald's, I think). I wonder
how much of this radiactive metal was never located...
Off-topic, see the December 6, 1983 entry here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_civilian_radiation_accidents
On-topic, see the 1985 to 1987, Therac-25 entry and read the details
of how a PDP-11 was partly responsible for killing at least 5 people.
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