discounts -- Re: Exchange replacements

Mon Sep 19 23:14:48 PDT 2005

Alvin,

Read through the e-mail again.

Michael

>
>On Mon, 19 Sep 2005, Michael T. Halligan wrote:
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>>Exactly what I've been rambling about. Any vendor should be happy to 
>>extend discounts to a professional organization, and any professional 
>>organization should be happy to ask vendors
>>for those discounts.
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>good discounts vs "negligible" discounts will also reflect how "happy"
>the vendor is or maybe their discount calcaulator is broken by the bean
>counters that have to okay it
>
>"picking on 5%":
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>5% discount from hardware vendors is like a free machine
>since most folks hardware costs approaches 95% of the retail
>due to competition
>	- there are some exceptions to costs like dell that makes
>	their own custom hardware to widen their gross margins to 
>	25% or more  and than they add their silly "pre-paid warranty"
>	that boosts their profits thru the roof
>
>5% discounts from software vendors ... humm that's when i look
>for other vendors, but again depends on which sw one is buying
>
>c ya
>alvin
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