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To: kash johal who wrote (30919)	3/8/2001 11:13:58 PM
From: Bill Jackson	Respond to of 275872

kash, Yes, I am aware of these aspects, but I did not wanto be write a saga. Nowadays there are appearing 'part exchanges' that parallel the stock markets. The parts brokers hate them. people like HP and Xerox etc have established sites where they list their excess and what they want for it or institute a bid situation for it. A true user who needs the parts will outbid a speculator and the speculators depend on isolation and fragmentation of these buyers and sellers to frustrate their making deals. Imagine a line outside a stadium where people who had excess tickets they wanted to sell and a line where people who wanted to see the game met in such a way that the buyer had to enter the game(use the parts and be seen to use them). So the scalper could sell tickets but could not buy them as all he would be able to do would be to enter the game. Sellers would stop selling to scalpers as they knew they could get more in the sale line to people who wanted in. It is not done for games, however there are many successful parts sales rings. The manufacturers like them as they get 100% or more of what they paid for the parts instead of the 10 cents/dollar that the surplus dealers usually sell for. Just another market gaining efficiency via the web. Bill