Network World Article
The following Q&A is taken from Phil Hochmuth's article "Don't sniff at used network gear, dealers say," in NetworkWorld.com:
Is theft and counterfeiting a problem with used equipment from other vendors?
Stafford: Theft is a problem for everybody, but there is not a big market for non-Cisco products, especially the random stuff you might pull out of a warehouse. Cisco is the 800-pound gorilla. … So if you are an organized crime ring — which there are in all kinds of theft — it becomes pretty obvious when you steal a bunch of boxes of Riverstone, and no one will buy them. Whereas you steal a bunch of boxes of Cisco and there's people paying good dollars for it.
Read the entire article at: http://www.nwnetsmart.com/news/2007/052307-interop-uneda-roundtable.html?page=2
