28 Nov
2001
28 Nov
'01
10 p.m.
Scrapping them off the books for tax purposes, in all
likelyhood. We
used to have to physically destroy our COMBOARDs before we could write
them off. If we were ever audited and happened to have product that
was logged as scrap, but hadn't been, we would have been in a world
of hurt from either the County Tax officials or perhaps the IRS.
It sucks, but if you scrap hardware, you have to render it useless.
IMHO, all you need to do is ensure there remains no evidence to
the contrary... admittedly, it might get very difficult to have
10,000 units disappear with a wink and a handshake...
-dq
29 Nov
29 Nov
4:38 a.m.
New subject: Scrapping hardware to get it off the books (RE: Is it a Lisa or Mac XL?!)
--- Douglas Quebbeman <dhquebbeman(a)theestopinalgroup.com> wrote:
But the risks... DEC got in some hot water over their scrapping
procedures... they took bids, by the pound, for defective product
that was deemed not worth fixing after assembly. They expected the
scrapper to reclaim the metals. The problem was that the scrapper
was cherry-picking valuable chips/boards out of defective assemblies
and repairing/selling them as "used", _then_ reclaiming the metals
on the remainder. The scrapper would inflate the bid, expecting
to make up the difference on the diversionary sales.
When supposedly scrapped S/Ns began appearing on the used market,
as I was told, DEC learned of the scheme, and, without telling the
bidding scrappers, installed a chipper to convert the material
to pieces no larger than about 5cm on a side, steel racks included.
I heard the next scrapper was most surprised when he big on a load of
scrap that really was a load of scrap.
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Scrapping them
off the books for tax purposes, in all likelyhood.
It sucks, but if you scrap hardware, you have to render it useless.
IMHO, all you need to do is ensure there remains no evidence to
the contrary... admittedly, it might get very difficult to have
10,000 units disappear with a wink and a handshake... 
7 Dec
7 Dec
3:22 p.m.
There are rumors and facts regarding Atari's activity in disposal. Mass
graves of Atari computers, game machines, cartridges. I do believe that
most of the "ET" game carts were buried in unmarked graves.... Good. ET
sucked.
Regards,
Jeff
In <7A9BACCEF0171D4FB77019F5104CDD372259C0(a)jeffserver.tegjeff.com>om>, on
11/29/01
at 07:00 AM, Douglas Quebbeman <dhquebbeman(a)theestopinalgroup.com>
said:
> Scrapping them off the books for tax purposes, in
all likelyhood. We
> used to have to physically destroy our COMBOARDs before we could write
> them off. If we were ever audited and happened to have product that
> was logged as scrap, but hadn't been, we would have been in a world
> of hurt from either the County Tax officials or perhaps the IRS.
>
> It sucks, but if you scrap hardware, you have to render it useless.
IMHO, all you need to do is ensure there remains no
evidence to the
contrary... admittedly, it might get very difficult to have 10,000 units
disappear with a wink and a handshake...
-dq
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