From: "Glenn Meadows" 

Well, they contribute to the overall portion of the long tail, but at
current sell rates, I think the sell through/sell off of existing physical
goods is close to 7 years!!!

Most distrubutors will only keep that much product that long, it will move
to the scrap or cutout bins.

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Glenn M.
"John Beamish"  wrote in message
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> "Long tail" isn't one of this (or lots of others, I guess) band's
> strengths.
>
> On Tue, 12 Dec 2006 11:40:47 -0500, Glenn Meadows 
> wrote:
>
>> Actually, not.  There might be SOME left in inventory, but the deep
>> inventory is already on the way back, starting to show up in the daily
>> inventory/sales reports.  The last thing that the remaining retailers
>> want
>> to do is sit on inventory that is taking up floor space in their
>> warehouses,
>> as well as having to pay for the product.  At the retail level, all
>> product
>> has 60/90 day billing, so instead of paying for it, they just ship it
>> back
>> for credit.
>>
>

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