The Used Bladecenter Were Priced Too Low
Thursday, August 27th, 2009When we stumbled upon a computer store that was having a big sale, we never figured that we would end up buying it. The current owners were having the sale, to reduce their inventory so that they could down size the store and move to a smaller retail space across town.
The prices that were on some of the equipment were outrageously low. I asked them if they had a website that partnered with the store, and they said that they had always wanted to, but just never took the time to do it.
My husband found used bladecenter servers priced for about a quarter of what they were worth. He then discovered some used ibm equipment that was in a back room and everything there was priced extremely low. Even if the older couple was trying to downsize, we just felt that they should not be giving the stuff away.
We asked them why they had the used bladecenter servers and the used ibm equipment along with many other things in the store priced way below the market value. They responded that they were thinking if they could downsize enough that they could just retire instead of moving the store.
We made them an offer on all of the used equipment and they accepted. We stopped the crazy sale and reopened with everything priced the way it should have been. We added a website and our inventory has been flying off the shelves.