Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/02/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Almost true..... they buy overstocks and computer manufacturer excess inventory. Basically, if Dell orders 1,000 drives a day, but only uses 850 drives one day that week, the excess inventory gets sold off to places like Fryes. Ditto drive makers that might build 10,000 drives, but only sell 8,000, the excess gets sold off cheap, to Fryes. It is a huge business that both the computer manufacturers and drive manufacturers both have separate business offices for. BTW, it happens on ALL parts for computers.... including processors, boards, resistors, etc... everything......! Frank Filippone red735i@earthlink.net I do visit my in-laws in SoCal, I do venture > into Freys, but I find it always takes two trips to them. Once to buy > the items and a second trip to replace them with working parts. Has > happened with drives, Motherboards, CPU's and memory. I am convinced > their cheap prices are due to seconds. Just some thoughts from the > trenches. > > Aram