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Posted by Raul at 2/2/2001 10:02 PM EST


Engineer on team #111, Wildstang, from Rolling Meadows & Wheeling HS and Motorola.


In Reply to: Consider the following...
Posted by Joe Johnson on 2/2/2001 3:55 PM EST:



Wow, this is getting out of hand. No wonder we have too many lawyers and not enough engineers.

Seriously, I agree that it is impossible to set a ruling so vaguely based on "selection and lead times". After all, did FIRST set a date for when we are allowed to start buying from Small Parts?

I never even considered it a legality issue in using Small Parts from previous years. I think that type of interpretation based on the "making it fair for rookies" issue is absurd.

We always look at the latest catalog to determine the price to account for in our list. But we certainly are not going to throw out the materials that we bought before this year.

I refuse to say anything else until I first contact my lawyer :-).

I think I will ask Eric about it next time I call him.

Raul

: In regard to Q&A74, honestly, I don't know what to make of this rule.

: If absolute "equal access to certain parts in terms of selection and lead time" is the standard, what am I to do with left over Small Parts Inc. stock from last year?

: For example, must I throw out chain that I purchased from SPI last year but went unused because it would give me a theoretical advantage "in terms of both selections and lead time"?

: I am a reasonable person with a reasonably well formed conscience, but I can't see the reasonableness of a strict enforcement of this rule.

: Again I ask, Too Legalistic or Too Cavalier?

: What is a person to do?

: Joe J.