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Originally posted by quiet
lol. i remember when pets.com went down and they were selling hardware for cents on the dollar.
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During the .com boom, as long as you were in a large company, even 1st level tech support people had unfettered access to the parts/ordering systems.
Vendors like Vanstar didn't even require that the broken PC or part you were replacing be sent back to them, so people would order a "replacement" for something that wasn't broken, replace it, and lift the old one.
A guy I worked with at Cadence Design got busted with two Sun UltraSparc Station's ($10k a pop then) and 15 laptops he'd aquired that way. That was only what they found when they raided his place.. he'd been selling them for 2 years on EBay.