Case 2nds

[GmpaJim]

Case used to sell 2nds to employees, denoted, ironically, buy an X. It applied to all products which were displayed daily by the time clock.
I don’t believe they do this anymore. This one has a wonky center rivet.

 

[Billy The Hungry]

Too cool. I wouldn't have made any money if I worked at Case. I'd buy all the seconds

 

[Hickory n steel]

Very funny that the the XX is their mark of quality but an X was also the mark of a factory 2nd.

 

[D-weaver]

I wonder what killed this stuff. I used to work in a cabinet factory when I was in college and the seconds were always put aside and sold to employees in an auction at the end of the year - usually ended up being about half price.

Same used to happen with guitars from some of the famous makers - they'd be stamped and sold. Now they're destroyed. Kind of thought that it was either data mining and realizing the employees would pay more than the cost of seconds, or it was an issue of not wanting seconds circulating with pictures showing up on the internet.

 

[19-3ben]

Kind of thought that it was either data mining and realizing the employees would pay more than the cost of seconds, or it was an issue of not wanting seconds circulating with pictures showing up on the internet

Or that it incentivizes the QC guys to "find" flaws and set it aside a first rate product as a second...