Interesting sales call

[Steve Jardine]

Kinda sounds like - 

   'You'se wanna have somthin like this happen to your hard drive? We want 100$ each week to keep that from happenin'. You don't pay - well it could get messy...'

On Thu, 17 Apr 2008 19:05:23 -0400
Rick Bowers <rwbowers at gmail.com> wrote:

> At Thursday 4/17/2008 04:23 PM, you wrote:
> >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"... ;)
> 
> So you "responsibly" dumped the hard drive into your closest garbage 
> receptacle ;-)
> 
> Aren't "personal" and "cold call" mutually exclusive??
> 
> ~Rick
> 
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