OT: Business Startup

[Alan Gore]

>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

This would be attractive to me if I knew precisely what the deficiency was.
When I buy something like a hard drive, I have no way of knowing whether
it's cheap because the documentation is missing or because it was dropped
down a flight of stairs.

PS: Did you know that a Cray Y-MP was advertised on eBay last week? This
would be an interesting part-out.