Comment by protocolture

>but actually they’ll just end up on eBay or even in some cases being injected back in to retail channels through some process we could never figure out.

I used to work in IT Recycling and I feel like I was for some time, this process.

We would take stock to be destroyed from refurbishment/replacement pipelines, fix it up "just enough" and if we werent worried about serialisation, it would go out via eBay, otherwise it would be gifted to clients who would say it was for their kids but I had suspicions that sometimes it was going back into retail eventually.

I still have a lot of shit that should have been destroyed.