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HP systems and equipment from hardware brokers HP continues to pursue
legal remedies against some rogue hardware brokers, but the company’s
policy doesn’t prevent customers or brokers from doing business
together. HP PR spokesperson Ann McGrath could give us only the headline on
HP’s hardware policy as we went to press: “It is still and always
has been HP’s policy that selling used HP equipment is legal,”
McGrath said. “HP has always valued and continues to value legitimate
used equipment brokers and customers who choose to deal with them.” As
of early February, what constitutes legitimate and legal policy was
information that had not been disseminated to brokers in the HP 3000
market. Legal action in the matter remained before a California grand jury
— but that had no bearing on the continued sale of HP 3000 equipment
to many Fortune 1000 companies. Some brokers reported that HP
representatives were using our January
FlashPaper article to convince customers that buying from brokers is
risky business. Brokers continue to operate within the limits of what they
understand to be the rules of sale — even buying their systems and
equipment from HP’s own hardware operations in California and Germany.
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