This would be pretty cool, you could probably include both magnets and those Faraday shakers tied to a coil around the drive--but I have doubts as to how strong a field you could make before the overhead of shipping a portable, "hand powered" degausser would outweigh its usefulness.

Yes! This idea had actually come up before.

I'll definitely give it an in depth look, this could make the whole process safer.

Thanks for the suggestion!

Do that, and I'll be much more comfortable with the idea of recommending your service, since it helps to alleviate the issues of things being lost/stolen during transit.

Excellent, point taken.

We're really looking at giving customers the option of doing something to the drive before it ships out. It seems that there's enough demand for it (based on comments we've gotten over the past two days).