> I used to work for a reseller and the problem I had was the
> distributor seemed to be trying to take my clients away. I would
> pay like $2640.00 for a PM2-E30 from Capella, and they would quote my
> client $2699.00 for it, all the while we were quoting $2999.00 for
> it. Kinda stupid wasn't it? All so Capella could make $59 more
> bucks. I would have gladly paid more for it, if Capella would keep
> their nose out of the retail market.
Sounds like what Livingston is doing. How can a distributor of Livingston
products make any money when end users can buy direct from Livingston as
long as they are an ISP, and the primary customer for term servers is
ISP's, and its pretty easy to be considered an ISP.
So the people who make money are those that are value added, like our
company, where we sell a turn key system, or a vertical market
application, or service.
OUR internet service is FREE (to our clients). The implicitely pay for it.
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Jake Messinger 713-772-6690 jake@ams.com
Advanced Medical Systems, Inc. jake@uh.edu
9919 S. Gessner #201
Houston, Texas 77071 http://www.ams.com/~jake
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