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Ask HN: What happens to unsold computers?
Do computer manufacturers always sell all the computers they make?
What happens to all the unsold computers?
- anigbrowl 12y agoThey cut the prices until people buy the existing stock, and don't make any more of that model.
- hoodoof 12y agoTheory or fact? So you think that all computers get sold?
- anigbrowl 12y agoThat's how retail works in general. It's rare for expensive items like consumer electronics to get dumped/recycled if unsold. There are companies that specialize in buying unused stock - that's what overstock.com does, and there are firms called jobbers that take excess inventory of retailers' hands for cash, albeit at a steep discount.