“As bargain hunters prepare for Henrico County’s $50 laptop sale, some county residents say they should have first dibs on picking the Apples,” The Richmond Times-Dispatch reports. “Graduating seniors at Henrico high schools were allowed to reserve a school-issued Apple iBook, but the Aug. 9 sale of 1,000 machines is open to the public. One Henrico resident said she would have liked all county high school students, who pay to insure the laptops, to have the chance to pluck one before the public. At least offer them first to Henrico residents, another said.”
“The first hints of a public sale of the iBooks drew a major response, and since Thursday, when the sale details were given, Henrico schools have received more than 1,000 e-mails and phone calls, one official estimated,” The Richmond Times-Dispatch reports.
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I repeat.
Typical government workers. No concern for money, because they’ve never had to live in the real world, just slurp some more out of the public trough. Jokers, every one of them. The administrator could have put them all on eBay with a hundred dollar start bid. But no, they’ll probably pay 10 or more people, double time to collect the $50 from hundreds of eager buyers. Dorks, all of them ( school board).
MW. blood. As in, some needs to be spilled in Henrico Country.
I was gonna point out the irony…
guess that’s been done.
For the kids that get them, I bet the iBooks get more use than the Dells!
hahaha
Henrico county residents are not the only ones who pay for their school supplies. There is plenty of state and federal money going into the school system up there, so the local students don’t have any more of a claim on those school supplies than anyone else. If they want to keep discarded computers to themselves, they can always forego state and federal monies…
The conspiracy theory:
May be one of the board members is getting ready to buy all the ibooks in good working condition, just as the door opens, so he/she could ebay them off at profit…
Of course the County wants to get as many iBooks as possible OUT of the district. Every laptop left will be a point of comparison- “Why does this old, used iBook run so much better than that new Dell?” I am surprised they don’t burn ’em!!!
They should get first crack. Then they’ll realize that the iBooks are actually worth it and that the Dells suck in comparison. Maybe Apple will do a great big ol’ switcher ad for the entire school district.
The county bought each of the ibooks for a buck after the leas was up so they are still making a $49 profit. Also they were also paid for exclusivly by county resident no federal funding so the current high school students should have been offered them first.
there is a one per person limit so all this bs about buying semis full is impossible, also no overnight camping and the gates to RIR wont open till 7