There are rumors and facts regarding Atari's activity in disposal. Mass
graves of Atari computers, game machines, cartridges. I do believe that
most of the "ET" game carts were buried in unmarked graves.... Good. ET
sucked.
Regards,
Jeff
In <7A9BACCEF0171D4FB77019F5104CDD372259C0_at_jeffserver.tegjeff.com>, on
11/29/01
at 07:00 AM, Douglas Quebbeman <dhquebbeman_at_theestopinalgroup.com>
said:
>> Scrapping them off the books for tax purposes, in all likelyhood. We
>> used to have to physically destroy our COMBOARDs before we could write
>> them off. If we were ever audited and happened to have product that
>> was logged as scrap, but hadn't been, we would have been in a world
>> of hurt from either the County Tax officials or perhaps the IRS.
>>
>> It sucks, but if you scrap hardware, you have to render it useless.
>IMHO, all you need to do is ensure there remains no evidence to the
>contrary... admittedly, it might get very difficult to have 10,000 units
>disappear with a wink and a handshake...
>-dq
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Received on Fri Dec 07 2001 - 23:22:03 GMT