Some food for thought here.. I think there may be some jumping to conclusions here, and that's only natural given the audience. The OP is clearly not a radio guy, and may be just simply one who sees no need to dump useable electronics into the landfill and is seeking some basic general information. There ARE billion dollar companies out there that DO have more money than they know what to do with. In my neck of the woods, oil and gas development and related companies come to mind, and short or long term "projects" come and go all the time. Just because they are APX8000's does not mean they are full blown P25, Phase II, AES, OTAR/OTAP, all the bells and whistles radios. These simply may have only UHF/VHF conventional flashed in them only because the RFP requested dual band radios. Don't you think the sales rep is automatically going to sell them APX8000's knowing the purchaser is a billion dollar company, that nobody is really going to care in the end because cost is not really an issue? For arguments sake, let's say a "box full of radios" is a dozen, and these are being spec'd for an industrial user, not a PS one. Delete all those high end features that a PS might need and you have a bare bones APX8000. Assuming they are right around $4000 each, (x12 = $ 48,000) , plus the batteries , software service contract, blah, blah, and you end up with a quote well under 100k. To a company that may make millions of dollars per day in profits, that's literally pocket change. 100k is the amount they spend on copy paper every month.
