Possibly. I'll let you know in a week or so as I finish up shipping and
counts...
- John...
Chris Chapman wrote:
>
> John,
>
> Got any cards left? ;)
>
> -Chris
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "John Goggan" <jgoggan_at_dcg.com>
> To: <newtontalk_at_newtontalk.net>
> Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2002 2:21 PM
> Subject: Re: [NTLK] Used Newts history
>
> >
> >
> > 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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