Laknox has basically the right idea. I came out of the telecom industry and a large part of our business was cellular and selling cell phones. When the new models were coming out it was closely guarded secret both within our company and to the public.
We wanted to make sure that we sold all of our current inventory and didn't have to discount any of it because the public had heard the new phones were on the way. If you ran the business, you'd most likely do the same thing or else you'd be stuck holding outdated inventory or seriously discounting it.
The sales people probably didn't know what was coming or upper management had on order.
Bill
