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To: RetiredNow who wrote (56995)	2/2/2002 12:21:22 AM
From: Stock Farmer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 77397

back into true form. Pure hyperbole. I know a lot of folks around me buying used gear. right left and center. Top of the line stuff is a myth. Two year old routers work just fine, thank you very much. Folks seem to forget that doing business is all about solving needs. Not having the glitziest network infrastructure. Or the most modern equipment. If I've got a lineup of 3 year old routers and I can add bandwidth by adding another of the same vintage it's not that I'm much farther behind. Why spend more money to get the same functionality? 'Cause my Director of Network Ops is a moron enamored with the latest techno gadgetry? Try again. Guess what's more important to him these days: his bonus, or spending our precious capital? And see if you can guess how he's being rewarded? I'll give you three guesses and the first two don't count. Are you saying that Cisco & the other vendors aren't selling any of the equipment listed on the grey market? Duuh... of course they are. For the reasons outlined above. Resorting to reductio-ad-absurdum logic is, um, absurd. Which then leaves us with the "Oooh, it might not work and be broken" argument. Playing on naive fears. Oh, does this mean Cisco sells fragile trash that breaks easily? Maybe you think so. But my experience with these gadgets is that they pretty well either (a) work or (b) don't work. Intermittent faults are few and far between, and usually rectified by re-seating cards properly. So a lot of us who are short of cash these days are willing to skip the "support" contract. Besides, if the cisco rep gets a bit too high on his horse about not servicing used stuff, you should hear the tune change when we get on the phone and threaten to move our business. LOL... This is the real world. And in this very real world, used stuff is moving quite briskly. So maybe we've all seen the article. But old news is still valid news. You might want to lighten up and not be so poo-pooh on stuff that you appear to know very little about. There's a lively market out there for grey market stuff. I know. First hand. And it's true: every dollar spent on a used gizmo is five dollars that the vendors don't get and three dollars of gross margin they miss. John