Here's an analogy that drgrant will appreciate.
After DEC, I started my own computer business supporting small businesses. Over the years I accumulated lots of cables, PC cards, controllers, modems, etc. that were bought to assist when a customer needed something replaced or added. Technology has moved on since I started that business in early 1993 (I closed that business in 2006). What do you think my inventory is worth today? Who needs a bin full of keyboards with the large DIN connector? ESDI, SCSI, IDE cards?
The message: Over years in business, business changes and old inventory creates a dustbowl of unsaleable items even if new. Nobody wants it and nobody will pay you for it.
After DEC, I started my own computer business supporting small businesses. Over the years I accumulated lots of cables, PC cards, controllers, modems, etc. that were bought to assist when a customer needed something replaced or added. Technology has moved on since I started that business in early 1993 (I closed that business in 2006). What do you think my inventory is worth today? Who needs a bin full of keyboards with the large DIN connector? ESDI, SCSI, IDE cards?
The message: Over years in business, business changes and old inventory creates a dustbowl of unsaleable items even if new. Nobody wants it and nobody will pay you for it.