I used to work for that shitty company that every one loves "The Computer Shop". Left there a couple of years ago but I am still really good friends with my old boss from the place.
Anyone in this country will know that they Famously went bust about a year ago, closed down all stores and let all the staff go. Pretty gutting for my mate as him and his wife were expecting their first child....not a good time to lose your job.
Well he and a couple of other managers were kept on for an extra month and given the task of touring round various closed down shops in the country to collect the point of sale items....basically branded advertising stuff.
They were given a van and were told that every store they were going to had been emptied of all stock.
Upon arriving at the first shop they found that the complete systems had been removed but loads of other stuff remained...barebone systems, lcd monitors, various hardware parts such as GPU's, memory, optical drives, hard drives.....a veritable aladdins cave for your average pc person.
So they checked again with head office to confirm all stock had been removed and nothing of any value was left within the stores.....all confirmed.
Well you can imagine what came next, a month of the three of them touring shops picking up anything they could get their hands on. By they time they had finished my mate had literally boxes full of computer components.
So much so that I picked up a centrino laptop and a damn nice computer system complete with 15"lcd monitor and Epson R200 printer all for the bargain price of £150
The reast was sold on ebay or to various other people and for the time during which he was unemployed he was able to support his expectant family and treat a few friends in the meantime
For anyone cosidering this as a bit fraudulent please understand the situation. Those who know of the collapse of "the computer shop" and Time computers will know just how ugly it was and how out of order the owners were, no warning, no pay off, and talk of no final wage. The owners however are still trading using the time name and are known to have got away with a stupid amount of money so personally I think it was all fair in the end