Re: [NTLK] Used Newts history

From: Hal Widlansky (hal_at_whoever.com)
Date: Fri Apr 12 2002 - 02:29:56 EDT


Jon Glass wrote:

> on 4/11/02 11:21 PM, John Goggan at jgoggan_at_dcg.com wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> Hm. I thought it had something to do with tax depreciation. If a company
> bought these Newtons 5 years ago ('97) then their 5 yr. depreciation would
> be just about up. At that point, it no longer made financial sense to the
> company to keep them around, so they unloaded them. Does this theory hold
> water--for those of you who understand these things...)

yep, makes perfect sense.

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