Interesting sales call

[Tim Wunder]

On Thursday 17 April 2008 03:05:41 pm Stuart Biggerstaff wrote:
> A sales guy dropped by here--a personal cold call, of all things.  And
> when he didn't get in to see one of us left something--a hard drive
> completely beat to hell in a plastic bag with his business card.
>
> My question was whether this meant "We can even recover data from a
> drive in this condition," or "We can do this to all your cast-off hard
> drives, and no one can ever recover data from them," or "Pay us, or
> we'll come in and do this to all your hard drives."
>
> Turns out the least interesting but least scary.  They do
> "Environmentally Responsible Asset Disposition".
>

Hmmm... they make "cold calls" and leave the asset(s) at the prospective 
customer's facility. I /guess/ that could be considered "environmentally 
responsible"... ;)

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