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Handspring selling thru Ebay

anyone know why handspring would be selling items thru ebay?

http://cgi6.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISA...t=2&rows=25

weird.

mc

Registered: Feb 2001
Location: Not so sunny, San Diego, CA
Posts: 51

overstock liquidation?

Ebay makes a great place for dumping overstock/obsolete products (or at least, ones that can't reasonably be sold on shelves..)

Perhaps HS is getting ready to liquidate their older models through auctions rather than hang on to them at price..

Although, I noticed they're not auctioning things off.. just selling. (No undercutting yourselves, now...)

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Re: Handspring selling thru Ebay

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Originally posted by mensachicken
anyone know why handspring would be selling items thru ebay?

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Registered: May 2000
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A lot of companies are testing the waters in this.. IBM did, HP, a couple of comtpuer manufactors - not always are they blatant about who they are - often their in secret, and it's only in news articles you read abotu these things...

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Registered: Sep 2001
Location: Elk Grove
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They are selling them to donate the funds to the victims of the tragedy on 9/11 like the other auctions. I think they had to put them where the geeks would find them.

Registered: Aug 2001
Location: TX
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Where do you see that the sales are going to the victims from 9/11? I didn't see any such sign anywhere on the auctions.

Teri

Registered: Sep 1999
Location: Sydney Australia
Posts: 1883

could be refurbished models they can't sell through normal channels...

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Originally posted by ToolkiT
could be refurbished models they can't sell through normal channels...

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Registered: Feb 2000
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eyeballs

I think that Handspring is trying to get the Visors in front of as many eyeballs as possible. Ebay gets a lot of traffic so they should sizeable chunk of units and ebay will get a nice commission.

Registered: Jan 2001
Location: Sayre, PA
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refurbished models

They are now selling refurbished models through their website

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Registered: Sep 2001
Location: Elk Grove
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Handspring is auctioning the Edge under Consumer Electronics/PDA/Handspring/Handheld/Edge and they have the red, white and blue emblem after each listing indicating it's for the victim of the WTC. When I was ready to list my Edge on Ebay Handspring had about 20 of them listed. I listed mine on Amazon, I couldn't compete.