On 2019-08-10 02:29, Saku Ytti wrote: > On Sat, 10 Aug 2019 at 00:22, Brandon Martin <lists.na...@monmotha.net> wrote: > >> Yes, yes they will. I've seen some distributor pricing and, while not >> officially under NDA, I will not mention it directly. Suffice to say >> you should demand at least 40-50% off list from your vendor to start with. > > You get better price from newegg for CSCO gear. >
I've found that if Cisco is presented with competing quotes for comparable equipment (eg. MX204 versus ASR9901) then they have inventive to price their products competitively. That said, a lot of SP's in the Canadian market are moving to the MX204 because of the pricing and Cisco was late to ingest that fact internally. -- S