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To: yard_man who wrote (91762)	4/9/2001 1:24:25 PM
From: JRI	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 436258

No....Csco (new orders) were/are competing against their own (already sold) equipment in the open marketplace... Say you're a small company......Csco rep. wants you to buy 3 routers for 5x dollars.....but you can get said routers at surplus.com or at auction for .5x......barely-used routers....(and were bought by a small telco, or internet company....that are now out of biz..... (the equipment got sold by creditors).... Why would you spend 5-10 times as much buying new from Csco when there is plenty of barely-used inventory out there?....Quite the dilemma for Csco.....competing against equipment you ALREADY sold.... Solution: Buy back that equipment. Like the freakin' diamond merchants in Zaire....incredible...