Jesse Garnier wrote:
> Do we know where these Newts are coming from, before the resellers
> get them, or what they were used for? Do we have any evidence that
> they're coming from an homogenous environment or several different
> sources? The discussions about the similar package configurations
> got me thinking.
>
> I'd be really curious to know if, say, some Fortune 500 company just
> switched from 15,000 Newtons to 15,000 iPaqs or some such.
Well, all of those 32MB cards that I recently sold (i.e. the "NorthStar
cards") were apparently originally used at a company called "AstraZeneca" (a
pharmaceutical company?). I only know because one of the cards had someone's
old AstraZeneca business card taped to the bottom of it. :)
I assume that if they had all of these cards (it appears that, originally,
there was at least 200 or so of them), they probably had a ton of Newtons to
go with them. I don't know if all of the recent EBay Newton sellers got them
from the same place or not. I don't know if AstraZeneca went under and had an
auction or just sold them to one person that has resold them all over or what.
All I know is that I bought all of the 32MB cards that I sold from one guy --
and he sold them because he was tired of selling them one at a time and
therefore decided to just dump most of the rest to me. I also know that he
isn't really a Newton person, at least, I don't think so -- meaning that he
wasn't selling other Newton parts before these. His emails to me implied that
he just looks for closeouts and deals and then resells them on EBay and such
afterwards. Meaning that he probably wasn't looking for Newton stuff when he
came across some place that must have been selling all of AstraZeneca's cards.
That's all I know.
- John...
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