[K12OSN] So close....

[Mel Wade]

Good advice.

One of the big reasons to buy through the corporate channel is that you get
corporate support vs. home support.  Big difference is service.

Mel


On 11/8/06, David H. Barr <dhbarr at gozelle.com> wrote:
>
> On 11/8/06, marrandy <marrandy at chaossolutions.org> wrote:
> > On Wednesday 08 November 2006 10:41, Eric Brown wrote:
> > > Our problem with dealing with Dell directly is that they will often
> > > quote us higher prices than if we were Joe Public walking in off the
> > > street.  Our principal has even resorted to using his personal credit
> > > card and purchasing computers to save several hundreds of dollars per
> > > machine.
>
> > How do you save several hundreds ($600/$700/$800) of dollars per machine
> ?
> >
> > What   'machine'  are you talking about ?
>
> Typically it's not so much (in my experience) that Dell explicitly
> charges edu/npo -more-, per se.  It's just that their pricing
> structure is heavily dependent on deep discounts, not all of which
> apply for a particular config in the home/smb/premiere sites.
>
> When I was in the nonprofit sector, I would typically end up a)
> determining what spec machine I wanted, b) carting it up in home and
> small business desktop and workstation lines, and c) sending the
> lowest of those four quotes to my representative who would typically
> match or beat it.
>
> It was a tedious process, but could frequently get my desktop orders
> down several hundred.  When you're buying $300 desktops and slapping
> charity licensing on them though, the wiggle room is fairly small.
>
> -dhbarr.
>
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