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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical RE: Calling all NANOG'ers - idea for national hardware price quote registry
> -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Sean Figgins > > Most of the vendors I know of like to wine and dine the VPs. > If a NDA gets violated, the vendor will not be forced to stop > dealing with the company, just get the employee that violated > the NDA to be fired. > Companies are getting very, very picky about this kind of > information getting out. And, if your company is publically > traded, I am sure that some consultant will claim this is a > violation of Sarbanes-Oxley. > I can see your points here. But, I think there still is value to the medium and small companies that are not bound by these types of agreements. > > > 6) Such a list is likely actually cause companies to have > to pay more. > > > > Not sure about the logic here... > > Logic goes like this: Company is seeing that it's prices are > getting out. > Company stopps giving the good discounts to anyone, as they > will have to give them to everyone otherwise... > Not sure I buy that line of reasoning. Hasn't happened in the myriad of other consumer product lines that have open pricing. In fact, just the opposite happens. Open pricing drives pricing down - not up. This is exactly the type of culture these hardware companies want. When you have closed pricing - in any industry - the buyer is always at the disadvantage. It's time to open this up. > If you are already doing business with a company, and just > want to have some incremental additional devices or services, > then you probably don't have to talk to a sales guy much to > get a quote from him. > > If you are shopping for the best price, and don't care about > support costs, or technical specs, then go shop at CDW, or > dell.com. Their prices are published. > 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. Matt
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