[73516] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: MRV discounts (summary)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andre Gironda)
Thu Aug 26 21:37:55 2004
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 18:39:30 -0700
From: Andre Gironda <andre@operations.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
Cc: Deepak Jain <deepak@ai.net>
In-Reply-To: <412E591C.4080300@ai.net>; from deepak@ai.net on Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 05:41:48PM -0400
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 05:41:48PM -0400, Deepak Jain wrote:
> All folks seemed to think 20% was no trouble. One guy suggested 40% was
> possible on some equipment. Some vendors seemed to choke on that
> suggestion. :)
Depends on the vendor in question. Just like going to the car dealer and
asking for the dealer's invoice: call up Comstor, Ingram Micro, or Tech
Data and ask how much they buy the gear for. Or ask your vendor how much
they pay those 3 suppliers. Some see roughly 36%-42% on the gear you are
probably referring to, unless you buy 10-20 of the same box at a time,
even to include the already deep discounts from bundle pricing.
-Andre
