Yes, Most hardware manufacturers I know sell directly at retail price.
In voip Business and from my experience, you can order Quintum gateways from Quintum Technologies right away at retail price. You can always get them cheaper from reseller. GSM devices manufacturers sell direct as well although they have resellers, unless exclusively agreed not to sell in that part of the world. For me it seems logical that manufacturer promote products themselves and sell them. Because resellers sometimes just don't react to sales leads. There is no reason why a manufacturer should lose these sales leads if reseller does not react. Now, if customers go to Digium right away instead of coming to reseller even though reseller is better price and close with pieces in stock to be served immediately, I think it is not the distribution of Digium that has problem, but the customers :-) Regards, Hakem, Selon Matteo Brancaleoni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi, > > Il giorno gio, 07-04-2005 alle 13:02 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: > > > Digium do sell online and so many other of their resellers do. The > important > > point is that they don't sell lower cost than their resellers, which is the > > case. > Please find an hardware producer that sells directly to endusers, when > they have also distributors/resellers. > The way is: if you have resellers, sell through them. if not directly to > end user. > > > Reseller added value is find customers and retail locally in his place with > > local variables of config, ...etc. They are the ones to find customers and > to > > make sure they bring added value. > Yes of course. but they're sure that the customer will buy from them. > normally the user will buy directly from the hw maker (and this's ok) > if the hw maker allows that, since in this way the user thinks that > going directly to the manufacturer they'll have better support and > better price. I know that is can not be the real truth, but is how's > perceived from an enduser pow. > We're Digium resellers, but some .it people buy the card from other > countries (because not imposing list prices allows resellers to do > market dumping) or even direlcty from Digium. > And we apply the very same Digium list price. and the import taxes > are payed by our reseller discount. > So when the enduser buys directly from .usa, they will pay list price > plus taxes, so more than our final price. But this is not considered, > seems. > > > I don't know what's unusual in this approach? > everything. > > Matteo > > _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
