If you put this place up you would probably have to hire a bouncer to kick me out after store hours. Sounds like a great idea to me. - Joel ----- Original Message ----- From: John Albee To: PLUG Sent: Saturday, September 16, 2000 3:49 PM Subject: OT: Business Startup > I plan on starting up a business within the next few weeks of electronics > liquidation(mostly computer systems and components). I thought I would ask > all of you since I believe a large part of this list would be interested. > My main questions are: > > What items would be most appealing? separate items?(such as hard drives, > video cards, etc) or whole systems?(names like dell and compaq) > > Does it bother you that the items are usually from one of the following > sources... 1. Customer Return, 2. Lost Freight, 3. Scratch and Dent, 4. > Missing Documentation or Parts, or 5) Surplus / Overstock. Quality of > merchandise can range from brand new to absolute junk (parts only). When I > got my new system by this way it was a return that the company said had a > bad video card. I opened the case and pushed the card fully into the slot > and it has been working like a charm ever since. > > Also, how apt would you be to look through liquidation before going to a > place like frys? > > Thanks, > John Albee > > > ________________________________________________ > See http://PLUG.phoenix.az.us/navigator-mail.shtml if your mail doesn't post to the list quickly and you use Netscape to write mail. > > Plug-discuss mailing list - Plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >