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Does your corporation throw away useful stuff? How often and how much?
VK3DRB:
IBM destroyed about 10,000 excess top-of-the-line "butterfly" laptops with a retail value around $10K each in the 1990's. That is $100 MILLION dollars worth. They did not think it appropriate to donate them to underprivileged people or to poor countries. They thought it better to destroy them because they would not be profiting on them and I guess they could write them off. They might have been concerned they would find their way back onto the market, cutting into sales. With a character like Louis Gerstner at the helm, it was not surprising they were not used for any altruistic purpose.
EEVblog:
When the big scope makers have trade-in deals they instruct their dealers to destroy the scope and provide evidence they have done so >:(
Their reasoning is that every 2nd hand scope on the market is one less sale for a new scope.
EEVblog:
BTW, I get asked many times about the legality of me taking stuff from the dumpster. Yes, it's legal. The dumpster is on private property (partly owned by me BTW), does not fall under council regulations, and it's actually against the strata policy (and collection company policy) for office owners to dump anything other than regular office waste into the dumpster room. No electrical stuff or furniture etc allowed.
Mr. Scram:
--- Quote from: EEVblog on May 25, 2020, 12:51:18 pm ---BTW, I get asked many times about the legality of me taking stuff from the dumpster. Yes, it's legal. The dumpster is on private property (partly owned by me BTW), does not fall under council regulations, and it's actually against the strata policy (and collection company policy) for office owners to dump anything other than regular office waste into the dumpster room. No electrical stuff or furniture etc allowed.
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The best advice is probably to check your local laws and situation. In some places it's legal as stuff thrown away is considered abandoned. In other places it's still considered property and therefore theft.
Mr. Scram:
--- Quote from: blueskull on May 25, 2020, 11:35:10 am ---This exact topic is like menstruation. It comes every once in a while, and is bound to come again. Plus it leaves some heat lasting for days.
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You must be pregnant a lot.
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