In effect, this gear is on loan from the vendors. I think the volume of work and it's relative unimportance affects the issue. The labor involved in packing and shipping them is significant.
But labor isn't free. In your case, I'd email the vendor: "These DIMMs belong to you, and they're cluttering up my office. You are welcome to send someone to pick up the DIMMs. Contact me when they're on their way." In the voice-telecom-carrier industry, vendors seem to provide CRAZY amounts of trial gear. At the BellSouth BTAC labs in Birmingham, they have/had MILLIONS of dollars in gear that belonged to an equipment vendor on loan. Do you think BellSouth accept responsibility for installing it all, or packing it up and shipping it back? Not while I was there. On Jul 8, 2009, at 12:42 PM, Brad Knowles wrote: > . . . we are talking about hundreds of DIMMs, each of which has to > be packed and boxed individually -- the boxes have already been > provided. . . . > > This vendor is > more than happy to get whatever business we can throw their way, and > while I don't like the position I find myself in and I honestly wish I > had the time to get this issue resolved sooner rather than later _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
