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Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread
Specmaster:
--- Quote from: Cerebus on May 16, 2018, 02:43:02 pm ---
--- Quote from: ChrisLX200 on May 16, 2018, 09:31:05 am ---Philips Research auction - some interesting stuff up for grabs: https://www2.ppauctions.com/auction.php?id=232
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Oh crap. That's close enough that running up there to collect stuff isn't too hard and there's loads of interesting things.
[Shouts aside:] "Honey, you know how you were saying the other day that I don't take you out often enough? D'you fancy a day trip to Cambridge?"
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HaHa, thats my line, I agree there is some nice stuff there and it looks like the entire office / lab gear is included in the auction so question is, are they closing down or just moving and can't be arsed to pack and unpack?
bd139:
It's normal. They sold the whole office to a liquidator rather than deal with it.
I did that at a company I worked for once. We nicked all the RAM out of all of the PCs though. Was really expensive back then :-DD
Specmaster:
--- Quote from: bd139 on May 16, 2018, 03:01:35 pm ---It's normal. They sold the whole office to a liquidator rather than deal with it.
I did that at a company I worked for once. We nicked all the RAM out of all of the PCs though. Was really expensive back then :-DD
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There you go then, just as mnementh said corporate corruption :-DD
bd139:
Not really corruption. Costs more to get rid of it properly. If you’ve got to sign a lease for another year or pay for storage then the net return is negative. Ergo you hire someone to take it away and they resell it via auction lots.
I remember when my father was shutting his company down when he retired. We had an entire industrial unit worth of equipment sitting in the house. Took five years to shift it all.
Specmaster:
--- Quote from: bd139 on May 16, 2018, 03:17:22 pm ---Not really corruption. Costs more to get rid of it properly. If you’ve got to sign a lease for another year or pay for storage then the net return is negative. Ergo you hire someone to take it away and they resell it via auction lots.
I remember when my father was shutting his company down when he retired. We had an entire industrial unit worth of equipment sitting in the house. Took five years to shift it all.
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Haha, I was referring to the theft of the RAM, some poor sod ended up winning the computer at the auction only find out that he couldn't even boot it up because it failed boot up checks and all the time you had it safely stashed away in the bd139 retirement or TEA fund. :-DD
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