IMSourcing: What does it mean?

[Bob Zelin]

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from the https://www.seagate.com search window, when entering IMSourcing –

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so this is obviously some marketing idiot, that made up a word, that means nothing to you, and nothing to Seagate.

Bob Zelin

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[Sareesh Sudhakaran]

I think IMSourcing is a company, a distributor of IT hardware. Any hardware can be “IMSourced”, which basically means a product not shipped by the original manufacturer via conventional distribution channels. In simple-speak, you don’t get the warranty, but you might get a warranty from IMSourcing.

This hardware can be preowned, discontinued, or sourced from the inner depths of the world. Here’s some info: https://imsourcing.zendesk.com/home

They have a website but it seems to be a ‘work in progress’. Here’s an older website with background info: https://im.sourcing.cc/

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[Paul Thurston]

If I understand this correctly then, Ingram Micro purchased these drives. Then setup a company called IMSourcing to resell these items. IMSourcing then resold on the open market these drives to various online resellers, who now just call the drives Seagate-IMSourcing. I understand IMSourcing, as a company, just sells discontinued items so I guess that implies Ingram Micro can no longer source these drives directly from Seagate.

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