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Originally Posted by pwnageNick

If FIRST is willing to count an account on ebay then count be as surprised. I never got the impression that counted.

If it does, the policy is sort of meaningless, methinks.

Honestly, if you're only going to have a stock of 10 or so, I have a hard time buying that as meeting the requirements of the policy, at least in any way that's consistent with the policy's intent. If an off-the-shelf resource is available to one team, it ought to be available to every team - a stock that limited really isn't, in practice, available to every team.

Else, what's preventing any team that wants to pre-machine parts from spinning off a handful of spares, opening an ebay account, and calling it a COTS product?