At 08:59 PM 11/16/2005, Julian Hale typed:
At 09:37 AM 11/15/2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed:
If out of ignorance I err on the side of caution, it may cost a
little more, but I can sleep at night knowing it will work.
How is that a moral statement??? I too will spend more money to get
a more reliable product, especially if it's for a customer. I'm not
saying that AMD products are less reliable, but they don't have the
lengthy history of Intel.
Hey, I often spend the money on what I think is the better item but I
do not make statements such as I ONLY use XYZ or that I can sleep at
night in a semi public forum as if looking for approval.
Nobody will be able to compete on the basis of price.
How about competing by providing a better service or a service that
no one else provides ? What's wrong with selling a slightly
different product than Dell if I can convince my customers that my
product is as good as or better while saving them some loot ?
There are always going to be unscrupulous sellers peddling bottom of
the barrel product.
Combating that by selling over priced items makes up for it how?
Saving his customers a dollar here or a dollar there at the
potential sacrifice of reliability would be foolish.
We should buy the most expensive items because we're guaranteed the
best product? I don't think so. Usually the best bang for the buck
is somewhere in the middle. How many components are there in a
machine? If I only save my customer a buck on each then I've saved
them more than maybe the guy down the street. The computer business
is highly competitive & $5 here or there may make or break a sale but
you won't see me complaining about Dell or refusing to work on Dell machines.
All this aside, it's HIS DAMN BUSINESS!
You're absolutely correct & how many others here list their business
practices ?
I'm sure you wouldn't appreciate it if I came on here and criticized
your business decisions on a regular basis.
Feel free to criticize by business decisions all you want but first
wouldn't I have to write about them & usually you won't catch me
divulging such info here. Here I talk about hardware & not whether I
can sleep at night because I made the right moral decision which just
begs for criticism.
All this childish behavior directed towards Chuck is really
starting to piss me off, and I can't be the only one. Stop acting
like school yard bullies, and start acting your age.
You're talking to a person that was the smallest & youngest in his
classes while going to schools on military bases no less therefore I
believe I know what a bully is. I learned not to try & meet brut
strength with brut strength & to use cunning instead. <vbg> I also
learned that information is knowledge & power. IMHO if a local mom
pop shop is selling only Intel then they've not done their homework.
If anyone wants to buy a Mercedes then let them but please don't try
& pass it off as the best deal because it will last longer. The fact
that some people would buy that argument doesn't make it so either as
PT Barnum once said there is a sucker born every minute.
Now a sneak preview into my business practices & feel free to
criticize. I like Enlight cases too but I looked into cheaper
alternatives. Customers don't care about the case except what it
looks like on the outside. They don't care whether it has rolled
edges inside because they won't go there. If I can buy a case for $10
or $20 less than an Enlight case and put in a better PS &/or save the
client some money then I'm going to do it. FWIW I lose sleep over
whether or not I'm getting the best bang for the buck for the client
all the time but that doesn't make me any better or worse than anyone
else but that just who I am. I ordinarily don't tell people or semi
public lists that I lose sleep over a deal as that is no ones business.
I'm sorry if I have offended anyone and that has never been the point
of any of my posts. The point was to get some to look at other
alternatives. FWIW I even poke fun at myself & you're more than
welcome to join in if you like.
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Wayne D. Johnson
Ashland, OH, USA 44805
<http://www.wavijo.com>
