IBM 4452, 4 x 53P3226 512MB RS6000 memory DIMMs
non-working, honey-glazed
We work with scores of liquidators and leasing companies who contact us with excess hardware and asset recovery
opportunities – 99.9% of whom turn out to be fantastic partners with
great hardware. The other .01% send non-functional memory in deli meat
bags.
Obviously we don’t resell anything that is non-functional and/or
smells like ham, so when this happened to us, we were forced to send the
shipment back to the liquidator. I don’t think we’ll be bidding on that
guy’s hardware packages again.
I’ll be putting together a post on preferred packing methods for IT
hardware so that I can point our clients towards it when they need help
in this area.
Update (4/18/07): Jonathan Schwartz, CEO of Sun Microsystems, also sometimes receives hardware in sandwich bags.