RV Trailer $$
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Topic: RV Trailer $$
Posted By: FREEDGUY
Subject: RV Trailer $$
Date Posted: 15 Jan 2022 at 7:11pm
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Talked with a "group leader/foreman" of a local RV (towables) plant that just put $20,000 worth of hydraulic hoses/fittings into the dumpster this morning due to mis-measurements/missing parts. Just WHERE do we as a consumer draw the line at BLATANT manufactures screwing ?? No, I do NOT own an RV and never will, my father retired from and my brother currently works for that realm of life and the stories they can/do tell
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Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 15 Jan 2022 at 7:26pm
| you need to go dumpster diving! |
Posted By: victoryallis
Date Posted: 15 Jan 2022 at 8:30pm
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Happens every day in the working world. 7-8 years ago electricians at work had a bunch of wire they no longer wanted. They marked the rolls with spray paint and we took forklift to get the rolls in scrap metal dumpster. Filled a good sized scrap dumpster some of the wire bigger than my wrist. ------------- 8030 and 8050MFWD, 7580, 3 6080's, 160, 7060, 175, heirloom D17, Deere 8760 |
Posted By: steve(ill)
Date Posted: 15 Jan 2022 at 8:50pm
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Not worth it to screw around for a large business.... $20K is less than 1 day profit... Forget it !! ------------- Like them all, but love the "B"s. |
Posted By: DMiller
Date Posted: 16 Jan 2022 at 6:41am
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Big Business is 'Inventory tax' hit for everything they purchase and do not utilize where is cheaper in the long run to scrap it and take the tax reduction write off. Saw components in the Utility Stores Warehouses get labeled with inventory tags, Expiration Date Coded so as tax destroyed any remaining value by time of the component ownership it was sent to TRASH regardless value as a repair part.
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Posted By: jaybmiller
Date Posted: 16 Jan 2022 at 7:36am
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when I ran our remote energy control company, found out our 'panels', which we leased, were inventory,when they came back. Any inventory is an 'asset', get TAXED on it ! Arrgh.... it took me 3 years to 'reduce our inventory' to ZERO..... understand the 'toss into bin'. just where would the company store those hoses while trying to resell? They'd take up warehouse space PLUS a lot of labour $$$ to handle them, and how LONG would you keep the, collecting dust on the shelves ?? local firm routinely tosses out steel. I got 75" of I-beams for free, including delivery !, as some engineer changed the specs for them ! ------------- 3 D-14s,A-C forklift, B-112 Kubota BX23S lil' TOOT( The Other Orange Tractor) Never burn your bridges, unless you can walk on water |
Posted By: FREEDGUY
Date Posted: 16 Jan 2022 at 5:45pm
WHY ??? I've got no skin in the game OTHER than our local landfills are filling up at an alarming rate
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shameless dude wrote:Posted By: FREEDGUY
Date Posted: 16 Jan 2022 at 5:48pm
This is EXACTLY what's wrong with the USA today
 !! The ONLY thing that could be worse for the RV business is they were UNION  !! |