Most companies (computer and consumer electoronics) in US use top distributors (e.g., Ingram/Ingram Micro/TechData/etc.) to distribute their goods. For example, Apple will dump their discountinued products through some big on-line e-commmerce players such as overstock.com, apple will ship the goods to its distributor(s), and send inventory information to the partners (overstock.com in this case), when shopper buys something, Overstock.com probably handles billing, and then send fulfillment req