[Amateur-repairs] Where are the knobs???

[Neil Morrison]

Even worse, this applies to books, so there is pressure on the
publisher to sell them or destroy them before the tax date. Many
publishers used to ship them to New Zealand (amongst other places I
presume) and we used to get many books very cheaply there.

We have a local chain in BC, Canada, Half Price Books

(http://www.halfpricecomputerbooks.com/)

which gets piles of these books and sells them off at half price or
below, even shipping them back to the USA!

Regards,

Neil


----- Original Message -----
From: "John Schmitz" <cjs004 at ATTBI.COM>


> Not an ex-Heath person but here's a possible theory. A while back I
worked
> in a Motorola Service Center. Every month we had to go through our
parts
> inventory stock and pull items for destruction. Seemed like such a
waste to
> me but here was the reasoning behind it.
>
> Uncle Sam looks at those parts and sees dollar signs, tax money.
Uncle Sam
> will only let you hold stock inventory for a short period of time
(time
> unknown) before he wants his tax money on those inventory parts,
even if
> they haven't been sold yet. Therefore, to avoid paying the taxes on
> inventory that was not used it would get pulled and literally
crushed
> (destroyed) before the taxes due date came up.
>
> ....

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