Oops! Did it again. Bah. Shoot me now.
Sorry.
- John...
John Goggan wrote:
>
> 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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