Gold fever hits fortune 500 co.

I got my block.


I'll keep plucking away, making deals as I can. It has it's perks not doing it full time. I feel your pain though.

@olddude: This sounds like a case of employee theft. When those servers were in that warehouse, legally they belonged either to your supplier or to you (depending on when the sale actually happened). If somebody working in the warehouse helped himself to the goodies inside those boxes, he didn't have the right to do that. If that warehouse belongs to your supplier or he had a contract with them for the safe storage of those servers, you should definitely let him know what happened. Otherwise, if you had the contract with the warehouse, you should speak to whoever is in charge there. The folks running that warehouse need to know about this. They could end up in a lot of trouble if they have an employee stealing valuables from their customers. To tell you the truth, they should also compensate you for your loss. If you have a good longstanding relationship with them, you might not want to insist on something like that. On the other hand, they should have insurance to cover problems like this, so maybe you could bring that up.

Understood. I didn't mean to imply that you should get dragged into any legal battles over a few palettes of servers -- that would be insanity. I don't think even a bad lawyer would agree to do something like that. I just meant it might be a good idea to have a conversation with your contact and let somebody know what's going on at that warehouse. But I don't know the details about your deal, of course, so maybe that's not really an option. These kinds of situations can be touchy. Anyway, I sure hope it doesn't happen again!

I would at least ask the question, as to if this was "bad" material, or "good" material, that was vandalized. You have a history of knowing what to expect, good and bad, so by asking you may be alerting them to a bigger problem than just what was missing from this load. jus my 2

I would talk to the person whom I set up the contract with. Let them know whats what. Not that you would want to get out of the deal but you expect to get what the "deal" was! Its business after all, and they are well aware of there end...

Ive been having the same problem. Most of the computers ive been getting from one supplier have been raided. They pop the heat sink off and grab the cpu and ram. But they leave the heatsink and everything else.

I said something. And he basically said its out of his control. And (i pay per unit not weight) i made a deal saying ill pay slightly less for these one. And now he keeps them locked up.