Looks like gold fever has hit some one at my #1 supplier or to be more precise some one in the warehouse.
Last week I got four pallets of servers from them, about my 20th load or so. I started on them last week end. The driver told me there was about one pallet that had been scavenged for parts. He was both right and wrong. He was right the first pallet was just empty cases and he was wrong, I have now gone through 3 of the 4 pallets and they have all been cherry picked. I have gotten 6 heat sinks,7 CPUs and about 10 gold mem sticks from 3 pallets..
I know it is some one in the ware house because all the missing parts are the easy to get to stuff and pieces that a newb would think is most valuable also there are certain custom servers by IBM, HP, and Cisco that are very hard to get into unless you know how. These are the only ones I found the heat sinks and ram in. This also tells me it wasn't the techs looking for replacement parts.
Not sure if there is any thing I can do about it. With Iron at .07 I'm loosing money on the empty cases and my yield on the rest has been cut 30 to 50%.
In our contract we agreed to take all IT scrap the good with the bad.
This is the good and the bad about our instant information age. It is also the up and down side of our forum and others like it. It is also a change in the supply train and as I see it will change our business as eventually every block will have it's own wana be "e scrapper".
We have to figure out a way to get ahead of this trend. (not a rant mealy a forecasted shift in the market. mcw
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