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Originally Posted by bizaro86
Yeah, that was pretty much my point. I bet they got 90% back. So they probably have hundreds of surplus laptops.
I can't imagine they'd get much for a bunch of used laptops, so basically its not that big a deal
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I used to sell money to companies that put together leasing terms for big organisations IT equipment. Most companies don't want to deal with getting rid of the equipment so these leasing companies come in and put together terms where the equipment is paid off in a reasonable time frame, then any day over the original rental term is pure profit. If the laptops aren't returned they'll be paying on them for awhile. There was a legendary story at one of the companies that someone was recently still paying their $20/mo for their old Motorola cell phone from 1986.
The leasing companies also usually have a down line to sell or recycle the equipment as well.