Theory 3, which many of these OEM's may hide behind is that if company A buys an ACME pick and place machine and beats the heck out of it, never performs any preventive maintenance on the machine, then sells it to company B. Company B may have problems with the machine and start to assume that ACME equipment is awful. Even if the ACME guys come in and say that the company A abused the machine and that the performance is not indicative of well cared for ACME equipment, it would be hard to change the view of management- and thus ACME may lose millions of potential sales in the future. This would often be the OEM argument, and it makes sense, however I believe the other theories play as large or larger a part in the equipment buy up. Steve A > -----Original Message----- > From: Stephen R. Gregory [SMTP:[log in to unmask]] > Sent: Tuesday,December 11,2001 8:16 PM > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: [TN] Interesting trend lately... > > Just thought I'd pass on something that I've just learned about. We've > been > looking at purchasing some used, or more politically correct I suppose, > "pre-owned" pick and place equipment. > > Have found out that there are OEM's of these machines out there, that are > buying as many of the used machines that are out in the open market as > they > can, to prevent them from being sold to the general market (like us guys) > that want to buy them...just found that rather interesting... > > They don't want their used machines being sold and traded, and are trying > to > make sure that anybody that wants their equipment has to buy "New" from > them > by taking as many of the used machines off the market as they can...I > guess > that is one marketing strategy...don't really understand it, but I guess > that's why I'm not a sales guy... > > Have any of you heard about this? > > -Steve Gregory- > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > ------- > Technet Mail List provided as a free service by IPC using LISTSERV 1.8d > To unsubscribe, send a message to [log in to unmask] with following text in > the BODY (NOT the subject field): SIGNOFF Technet > To temporarily halt delivery of Technet send the following message: SET > Technet NOMAIL > Search previous postings at: www.ipc.org > On-Line Resources & Databases > > E-mail Archives > Please visit IPC web site (http://www.ipc.org/html/forum.htm) for > additional > information, or contact Keach Sasamori at [log in to unmask] or 847-509-9700 > ext.5315 > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > ------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Technet Mail List provided as a free service by IPC using LISTSERV 1.8d To unsubscribe, send a message to [log in to unmask] with following text in the BODY (NOT the subject field): SIGNOFF Technet To temporarily halt delivery of Technet send the following message: SET Technet NOMAIL Search previous postings at: www.ipc.org > On-Line Resources & Databases > E-mail Archives Please visit IPC web site (http://www.ipc.org/html/forum.htm) for additional information, or contact Keach Sasamori at [log in to unmask] or 847-509-9700 ext.5315 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------