[84588] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Calling all NANOG'ers - idea for national hardware price quote registry
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu)
Fri Sep 16 19:34:50 2005
To: Matt Bazan <Mbazan@onelegal.com>
Cc: Sean Figgins <sean@labrats.us>, nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 16 Sep 2005 14:48:43 PDT."
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From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 19:34:00 -0400
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
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On Fri, 16 Sep 2005 14:48:43 PDT, Matt Bazan said:
> Not sure I buy that line of reasoning. Hasn't happened in the myriad of
> other consumer product lines that have open pricing.
The key word here is "consumer product".
> Actually, not the case. CDW and Dell (and all the others) only publish
> their prices for the low end gear that they sell. Anything else
> requires a call to a rep and establishing a relationship.
"low end". Quite the overlap with "consumer". It's pretty easy to find
the "best price" for a Linksys cablemodem. When the router price rivals
that of a Bugatti Veyron, getting a solid answer is a lot tougher - the converse
of "If you have to ask, you can't afford it" is "Whatever you can afford, is
what you'll end up paying". There's not enough margin on a $400 PC to be worth
a real salescritter's time. If it's a $20K server, it's worth a salescritter
to spend quite some time haggling. And if it's a $10M sale, the negotiations
and tap-dancing will go on for a *long* time....
(http://www.cnn.com/2005/AUTOS/funonwheels/09/16/bugatti_veyron/index.html
if anybody actually cares...)
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