Here is a beauty from Ireland: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/nov/26/irish-parliament-red-faced-printer-too-big-doors Quote: A series of debacles over a €808,000 state-of-the-art Komori printer has this week left officials red-faced, triggered an inquiry and prompted jokes about monster ink. After the machine, measuring 2.1 metres high by 1.9 metres wide, arrived in Ireland last December officials at the legislature, the Oireachtas, discovered it did not fit into the building. They could not return it to the UK manufacturer because the contract had already been signed. So they moved it to an industrial estate until September, paying storage fees, while builders tore down walls and embedded structural steel to create more height clearance at Kildare House, racking up €236,000 in additional costs. The printer is now installed but idle because of an industrial relations dispute. According to the Irish Times, Oireachtas staff refuse to operate it, saying they need training and a pay rise, and in any case IT colleagues are reluctant to grant it server permissions, meaning it cannot run.
And then it'll probably jam because someone was using refilled ink cartridges What in bloody hell are they printing anyway? They have whole books I guess, but why don't they just use a printing company?
The French state railway SNCF spent $15bn on a new fleet of trains this year. Unfortunately, they were too wide for 1,300 station platforms across the country; a problem that will cost and estimated €50m (£36m) to fix. “It’s like ordering a big, new car without checking the width of your garage,” said Emmanuel Grondein, of the SUD-Rail trade union.
I recall something from my experience back a few years. I was working for a US company which bought some engineering from a company which had gone bust a few months before. There was also some inventory there so they asked the salesforce if they could shift it, and of course they said yes, especially for some more commission. So the business for this stuff was in Europe so they came over and asked the distributors if they wanted some of it, and got told they already had a warehouse full which was on sale or return, and could they send it back for credit? Plus they had warranty claims too. And btw, there was no media for the stuff 'cos the only supplier had stopped production when the company went down. And the latest version of Windows wasn't supported either. They never sold a single unit and wrote the whole lot off which wiped out an entire quarter's earnings. True story. Moral? Due diligence...
