I can very well imagine what John is saying. Almost 20 years ago Ford pulled
out its car business from the Philippines completely. IN the process they
sold of lots of brand new car parts big and small as in entire engine
assemblies, unfinished body chassis parts at less than 10 0f regular
retail prices. Slow moving items were given away almost for free.
The local traders who bought them up made lots of money over the next 5 - 7
yrs nursing the dwindling fleet of Ford cars that could be seen on the
streets. I too made a small amount selling hard to find parts kept in my
garage for 5 yrs.
This theoretically can be done for OLy parts if they will agree to sell
them? But as John has said, they cannot be bothered. What a pity that they
do not have a sense of service to their clients?
We must be more an exception among the many more throw away consumers of
today...
----- Original Message -----
From: Jim Brokaw <jbrokaw@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002 3:09 PM
Subject: Re: [OM] WTB: Junker 85-250 Zuiko
> on 4/9/02 6:26 PM, John Hermanson at omtech@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> > If they don't sell one of a certain item in, let's say for the sake of
> > numbers, a 5 year span, they consider it a part that is just taking up
> > space in a drawer, so it most likely gets dumped. 85-250 is old, that's
why
> > there aren't any in stock. Japan most likely doesn't have them either,
they
> > throw them away, it's a business decision, a tax deduction and that's
all!
> > All the complaining in the world won't make any difference, especially
for a
> > camera system they are getting away from.
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> Where I last worked we wrote off $millions in 'excess and obsolete'
> inventory. I was assigned to try to recover some value for it if
possible...
> I managed to get something like 50n some of the generic electronic
> components and connectors, but a lot of the rest of the stuff was just
> turned over to a junk dealer to scrap. The company netted about $60,000
for
> writing off $4,000,000 in inventory (this is a 'good' management
> decision...!)
>
> Suppose we could form a fund to buy out the OM parts that Olympus is
> otherwise going to just dump in the trash...? They might take an offer of
> 1-3% and the parts could then be held for the future. I suppose it would
> take someone with some spare attic space, but camera parts can't take up
all
> that much room. Olympus must have 'five of this element and seven of that
> piece of glass, wrapped in tissue in a little plastic bag' times hundreds
of
> parts... Once those are gone, you're never going to get them recreated in
> the future.
> --
>
> Jim Brokaw
> OM-1's, -2's, -4's, (no -3's yet) and no OM-oney...
>
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