On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 1:58 PM, Trixter aka Bret McDanel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2008-10-27 at 13:49 -0400, Steve Totaro wrote: >> To an extent yes, but he is not selling minutes, he is selling >> hardware (as far as I know). >> >> Using the terms "VoIP isn't a single sale" is misleading since he is >> selling phones or whatever, which very well may be a single batch >> sale. >> > > oh its hardware? that is even more likely to attract people who ask for > samples. Its a hardware engineering thing, call up mouser, digikey, or > any of the other top 10 global component resellers, call up > manufacturers such as Ti, they all have a samples department. > Fortunately for me there was a Mouser right by the college I went to and > their samples department basically gave me more than enough stuff back > then to make some neat toys :) So yes it does get abused, but generally > its seen as a cost of doing business in such firms. > > However end user retail goods generally do not get samples the same way, > for some its like Sun where you try before you buy, basically you clear > credit and all that, and if you like the system after your term (90 days > or it used to be) you had to send it back or pay for it. Sure they run > the risk of the type of crowd getting the big screen just before hte big > game and returning it just after, but that is why sun runs credit and > sees how many systems you can demo this way. > > > -- > Trixter http://www.0xdecafbad.com Bret McDanel > Belfast +44 28 9099 6461 US +1 516 687 5200 > http://www.trxtel.com the phone company that pays you! > > > _______________________________________________ > --Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com-- > > asterisk-biz mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-biz >
I am not too sure how that would work across boarders and in particular, the US and China if someone didn't keep up their end of the bargain. -- Thanks, Steve Totaro +18887771888 (Toll Free) +12409381212 (Cell) +12024369784 (Skype) _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com-- asterisk-biz mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-biz
