[rescue] Division of the Spoils (was: Pallet of Sun IPX systems - Brisbane, Australia)

[Sheldon T. Hall]

Quoth "Joshua D Boyd" <jdboyd at cs.millersville.edu>

> On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 12:46:32PM -0400, Sheldon T. Hall wrote:
>
> > > A note for the future though.  I think this experience emphasises the
> > > wisdom of only bringing in the minimum number of people needed to pull
> > > of the purchase.  So for instance, maybe 5 people in addition to Dave.
> > > Then you have far less people to deal with for splitting things up.
All
> > > the people who only wanted one or 2 machines could have dealt with the
> > > 5.
> >
> > Hmmm.  Multi-Level Rescuing ....
>
> Well, if the 5 personally wanted all the machines they got, then they
> could all take them, and not pass any on.
>
> I'm just saying that if I was in the place of Dave on a future deal (and
> I was strongly considering fronting all the money until Dave volunteered
> to), I would insiste on dealing with the minimum number of people
> possible to prevent things from dragging on with people who are
> minimally invested causing problems with the sorting/division process.
>
> Then those minimal number of people could do what they wanted with what
> they got, like pass them on at cost to people who only wanted one or two
> machines, or try to ebay them, or keep them all to build a large
> distributed system.  Basically, there is a reason some businesses have
> multiple levels of distribution, and it is probably a sound idea for
> rescues too.

I was just kidding ... I understood perfectly, both the problem and your
proposed solution.

-S