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To: Mohan Marette who wrote (133881)	6/22/1999 6:22:00 PM
From: edamo	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 176387

mohan...re" asset recovery" who will buy these refurbished units....every three years a tremendous amount off lease...the greater your new sales, the more assets to recover...it is a bizarre concept.....why not concentrate on a low priced,fixed margin, consumer/retail line in the dell bto model, then an on line auction????....silence from "mikey" has me less concerned, then a statement like this.....used pc's, free pc's, free isp's...how much margin can they make on a refurbished unit? how many units can they auction? how will it dilute new sales???? why continue to sell ugly hand me down boxes, when there exists such a thing as innovation...

To: Mohan Marette who wrote (133881)	6/22/1999 10:25:00 PM
From: PAL	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 176387

Mohan-san: I understand that Dell's machines are leased to businesses, and Dell will have to take them back once the lease expires. Now Michael wants to refurbish and auction these two to three year old computers which are technologically obsolete. The market for these pc's is the consumers, not the businesses. It costs more to service the consumer market that the business. There are companies that deal with refurbished pc's just like there are companies that buy surplus merchandise. Let these type of companies handle lease returns and let Dell stay in the field that it knows best: sell new computers direct. Could you see Jay Leno mimicking Mickey on the tonight show auctioning a refurbished pc: "Our next item to be auctioned is a gently used Dell pc, a Pentium II 120, even the label 'Intel Inside' has not been peeled off. Starting bid: $ 150 with an increment of $ 25. Do I hear $ 175, $ 175 ...?" Note: The above paragraph is not intended as a joke, but rather to illustrate the potential of lowering Dell's image . Let ONSALE handle lease returns. Best regards Paul