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To: BGR who wrote (112766)	3/26/1999 5:05:00 PM
From: rudedog	Respond to of 176387

The closeouts appeared in mid-march, and were gone in a few days, at least at the stores I went to. I wanted to buy a second one of these machines for myself after I saw how nice they were but could not find any. So I am inclined to think this is the typical consumer cycle closeout. Remember that the CPQ consumer model is to predict sales for a "Cycle" and then produce all of the product for that cycle in a single run. This produces maximum production efficiency. They will sometimes extend that run if the products are flying off the shelves but usually they hit fairly close. The goal is to have some demand left at the end of the cycle, usually a week or so, which is filled from the next cycle's production. But sometimes the estimate is high and there is product left over, which is blown out at closeout. I have been told that on average this is less than 5% of production but have no way to verify that number.