RE: [WISPA] INSURANCE NOW canopy prices

[G.Villarini]

I bet she's a handful... I got 2 boys...5 and 1 years old... oh man and I
thought wisp was thought business Jeje see you at Winog

Gino A. Villarini, 
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>Hey Charles ... long time no see ... any winog on 2006 ?

Hi Gino

Been Extremely Busy: http://www.winog.com/austin_2006/kaili_wu.jpg
Now that she FINALLY sleeps through the night, I'm able to start actually
concentrating and focusing at work again, and yes, WiNOG this year will be
from March 13-15, 2006 in Austin, TX

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RE: [WISPA] INSURANCE NOW canopy prices

[Brian Webster]

Charles,
Congratulations! She is beautiful! Hope all is well.



Thank You,
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-Original Message-
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>Hey Charles ... long time no see ... any winog on 2006 ?

Hi Gino

Been Extremely Busy: http://www.winog.com/austin_2006/kaili_wu.jpg
Now that she FINALLY sleeps through the night, I'm able to start actually
concentrating and focusing at work again, and yes, WiNOG this year will be
from March 13-15, 2006 in Austin, TX

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RE: [WISPA] INSURANCE NOW canopy prices

[Charles Wu]

>Hey Charles ... long time no see ... any winog on 2006 ?

Hi Gino

Been Extremely Busy: http://www.winog.com/austin_2006/kaili_wu.jpg
Now that she FINALLY sleeps through the night, I'm able to start actually
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[Mac Dearman]

I guess I should have read the complete thread before making my last 
post :-)


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Mac Dearman wrote:


Brian,

 I have a site that been up for a couple years here

http://www.wisp-coop.com/

Take a look see and I will forward you the admin password if you want 
to use it


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Brian Rohrbacher wrote:

I'm getting a lot of interest off list on the group idea.  Can anyone 
(principal member) set up a mail server for use to talk about this.  
ASAP!


Thanks
Brian

Charles Wu wrote:


I know you don't support the idea of group buys.
  



It's not that I don't support the concept, truthfully, I could care 
less
whether you buy your gear from a distributor, reseller, or direct 
from the

manufacturer

I have just seen it implemented (rather unsuccessfully) many times 
by ISPs
such as yourselves, and am trying to help you avoid making such a 
mistake


The idea of a WISP buying group is nothing original, for the past 
few years,
I've seen this idea come up at least once a month on some WISP 
listserv /

forum / etc...

However, if it was really that "easy and simple" -- why hasn't it been
implemented yet on a consistent long term basis?

Here's my observation

-The guys that fail with their buying group end up getting their 
inventory

liquidated on Ebay, go bankrupt and disappear

-The guys that just barely sell their inventory realize how much of 
a PITA

the organization/operation is, and go back to buying from their
distributor/reseller/etc

-The guys that are extremely successful become resellers/distributors

-Charles

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Re: [WISPA] INSURANCE NOW canopy prices

[Mac Dearman]

Brian,

 I have a site that been up for a couple years here

http://www.wisp-coop.com/

Take a look see and I will forward you the admin password if you want to 
use it


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318-728-9600
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Brian Rohrbacher wrote:

I'm getting a lot of interest off list on the group idea.  Can anyone 
(principal member) set up a mail server for use to talk about this.  ASAP!


Thanks
Brian

Charles Wu wrote:


I know you don't support the idea of group buys.
   



It's not that I don't support the concept, truthfully, I could care less
whether you buy your gear from a distributor, reseller, or direct from the
manufacturer

I have just seen it implemented (rather unsuccessfully) many times by ISPs
such as yourselves, and am trying to help you avoid making such a mistake

The idea of a WISP buying group is nothing original, for the past few years,
I've seen this idea come up at least once a month on some WISP listserv /
forum / etc...

However, if it was really that "easy and simple" -- why hasn't it been
implemented yet on a consistent long term basis?

Here's my observation

-The guys that fail with their buying group end up getting their inventory
liquidated on Ebay, go bankrupt and disappear

-The guys that just barely sell their inventory realize how much of a PITA
the organization/operation is, and go back to buying from their
distributor/reseller/etc

-The guys that are extremely successful become resellers/distributors

-Charles

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Re: [WISPA] INSURANCE NOW canopy prices

[A. Huppenthal]

Brian, you are setup as administrator and approval person for the group 
buy Listserv membership. You have the password in a seperate email.


Principle WISPA members can request subscription to the Buying Group 
listserv by sending an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]


If you are a Principle member, post a message to the [EMAIL PROTECTED] - 
you'll need to signup for that by sending an email to 
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sorry about the two-step, but we don't have 
anyway to verify you are a principle member without seeing your message 
on the [EMAIL PROTECTED] listserv.. If you have a better idea... please 
post it.


If you get rejected, sign up for WISPA Principle membership at: 
http://signup.wispa.org/wispa-newacct.html and send in another request 
to signup for the Group Buy list - [EMAIL PROTECTED],


Let's try to keep it simple. Be a principle member, signup by sending an 
email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - save a bunch of money on purchases by 
teaming up with others on the private list that want to buy in bulk. Do 
your diligence on the list, make your calls, and swap info with each 
other. Don't call me/email me whinning because it didn't work out for 
you. Take on your own responsibility for making it work. It can, I've 
done it, and it works. Brian's got a good start with around 50% off the 
equipment he is interested in.





A. Huppenthal wrote:


Brian,

I'll see if can do this shortly.

-Alex

Brian Rohrbacher wrote:

I'm getting a lot of interest off list on the group idea.  Can anyone 
(principal member) set up a mail server for use to talk about this.  
ASAP!


Thanks
Brian

Charles Wu wrote:


I know you don't support the idea of group buys.
  



It's not that I don't support the concept, truthfully, I could care 
less
whether you buy your gear from a distributor, reseller, or direct 
from the

manufacturer

I have just seen it implemented (rather unsuccessfully) many times 
by ISPs
such as yourselves, and am trying to help you avoid making such a 
mistake


The idea of a WISP buying group is nothing original, for the past 
few years,
I've seen this idea come up at least once a month on some WISP 
listserv /

forum / etc...

However, if it was really that "easy and simple" -- why hasn't it been
implemented yet on a consistent long term basis?

Here's my observation

-The guys that fail with their buying group end up getting their 
inventory

liquidated on Ebay, go bankrupt and disappear

-The guys that just barely sell their inventory realize how much of 
a PITA

the organization/operation is, and go back to buying from their
distributor/reseller/etc

-The guys that are extremely successful become resellers/distributors

-Charles

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[A. Huppenthal]

Ahem.. cough cough..

If any of you are using Plesk 7.5 and mailman.. be prepared for a 
wonderful journey of discovery.
You'd think if it says 'supported' Plesk means Mailman works. :-) I 
should be so lucky.


All is working at this point. 2 hours got me to 'installed' and working 
admin interface. The trouble was
that email wasn't being distributed .. a pretty serious flaw for a 
listserver.. ha ! :-)


All done. All working. All admin working..  Email distribution working.. 
subscriptions are approved by the moderator.


Kudos to system administrators on the list. You guys have quite the job.

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[A. Huppenthal]

The list server is running, Brian is working on the final setup / config.
Sorry, its I thought I could do it in just an hour, but I've never set 
this software up before so it took 2 hours.


I'm guessing the list will be up and running.

Any suggestions on how we can confirm that the person attempting to 
signup for the group buy listserv is actually a principle member?


I don't think we want a list of all the members distributed. I was 
thinking a simple script might allow an authorized person to query *if* 
a certain email address is a principle member or not.. hmmm... a puzzle..


I guess the person asking for the list membership could do so on the 
principle member list @ wispa.


Brian Rohrbacher wrote:


Your a good man.

A. Huppenthal wrote:

I like the recent post about monitors too. Frankly the BND stuff for 
$500 is good, but I'd use at least twice as much of it :-) if it were 
$250. ha!


I sent you a note directly, I'll hang in there for a while tonight to 
get the listserver doing precisely what it should.



Brian Rohrbacher wrote:

That would be great.  People are asking me about 5.2, 5.7, 2.4, as 
well as 900.  I just want 900 for now.  If we get a place to talk 
about it, someone else can coordinate the same with each product.


A. Huppenthal wrote:


Brian,

I'll see if can do this shortly.

-Alex

Brian Rohrbacher wrote:

I'm getting a lot of interest off list on the group idea.  Can 
anyone (principal member) set up a mail server for use to talk 
about this.  ASAP!


Thanks
Brian

Charles Wu wrote:


I know you don't support the idea of group buys.
  






It's not that I don't support the concept, truthfully, I could 
care less
whether you buy your gear from a distributor, reseller, or direct 
from the

manufacturer

I have just seen it implemented (rather unsuccessfully) many 
times by ISPs
such as yourselves, and am trying to help you avoid making such a 
mistake


The idea of a WISP buying group is nothing original, for the past 
few years,
I've seen this idea come up at least once a month on some WISP 
listserv /

forum / etc...

However, if it was really that "easy and simple" -- why hasn't it 
been

implemented yet on a consistent long term basis?

Here's my observation

-The guys that fail with their buying group end up getting their 
inventory

liquidated on Ebay, go bankrupt and disappear

-The guys that just barely sell their inventory realize how much 
of a PITA

the organization/operation is, and go back to buying from their
distributor/reseller/etc

-The guys that are extremely successful become 
resellers/distributors


-Charles

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[Brian Rohrbacher]

Your a good man.

A. Huppenthal wrote:

I like the recent post about monitors too. Frankly the BND stuff for 
$500 is good, but I'd use at least twice as much of it :-) if it were 
$250. ha!


I sent you a note directly, I'll hang in there for a while tonight to 
get the listserver doing precisely what it should.



Brian Rohrbacher wrote:

That would be great.  People are asking me about 5.2, 5.7, 2.4, as 
well as 900.  I just want 900 for now.  If we get a place to talk 
about it, someone else can coordinate the same with each product.


A. Huppenthal wrote:


Brian,

I'll see if can do this shortly.

-Alex

Brian Rohrbacher wrote:

I'm getting a lot of interest off list on the group idea.  Can 
anyone (principal member) set up a mail server for use to talk 
about this.  ASAP!


Thanks
Brian

Charles Wu wrote:


I know you don't support the idea of group buys.
  





It's not that I don't support the concept, truthfully, I could 
care less
whether you buy your gear from a distributor, reseller, or direct 
from the

manufacturer

I have just seen it implemented (rather unsuccessfully) many times 
by ISPs
such as yourselves, and am trying to help you avoid making such a 
mistake


The idea of a WISP buying group is nothing original, for the past 
few years,
I've seen this idea come up at least once a month on some WISP 
listserv /

forum / etc...

However, if it was really that "easy and simple" -- why hasn't it 
been

implemented yet on a consistent long term basis?

Here's my observation

-The guys that fail with their buying group end up getting their 
inventory

liquidated on Ebay, go bankrupt and disappear

-The guys that just barely sell their inventory realize how much 
of a PITA

the organization/operation is, and go back to buying from their
distributor/reseller/etc

-The guys that are extremely successful become resellers/distributors

-Charles

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[A. Huppenthal]

I like the recent post about monitors too. Frankly the BND stuff for 
$500 is good, but I'd use at least twice as much of it :-) if it were 
$250. ha!


I sent you a note directly, I'll hang in there for a while tonight to 
get the listserver doing precisely what it should.



Brian Rohrbacher wrote:

That would be great.  People are asking me about 5.2, 5.7, 2.4, as 
well as 900.  I just want 900 for now.  If we get a place to talk 
about it, someone else can coordinate the same with each product.


A. Huppenthal wrote:


Brian,

I'll see if can do this shortly.

-Alex

Brian Rohrbacher wrote:

I'm getting a lot of interest off list on the group idea.  Can 
anyone (principal member) set up a mail server for use to talk about 
this.  ASAP!


Thanks
Brian

Charles Wu wrote:


I know you don't support the idea of group buys.
  




It's not that I don't support the concept, truthfully, I could care 
less
whether you buy your gear from a distributor, reseller, or direct 
from the

manufacturer

I have just seen it implemented (rather unsuccessfully) many times 
by ISPs
such as yourselves, and am trying to help you avoid making such a 
mistake


The idea of a WISP buying group is nothing original, for the past 
few years,
I've seen this idea come up at least once a month on some WISP 
listserv /

forum / etc...

However, if it was really that "easy and simple" -- why hasn't it been
implemented yet on a consistent long term basis?

Here's my observation

-The guys that fail with their buying group end up getting their 
inventory

liquidated on Ebay, go bankrupt and disappear

-The guys that just barely sell their inventory realize how much of 
a PITA

the organization/operation is, and go back to buying from their
distributor/reseller/etc

-The guys that are extremely successful become resellers/distributors

-Charles

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[A. Huppenthal]

Brian,
I'm going to take this off this list for now. I'll send you a note 
directly. The list is setup.

-Alex

A. Huppenthal wrote:


Brian,

I'll see if can do this shortly.

-Alex

Brian Rohrbacher wrote:

I'm getting a lot of interest off list on the group idea.  Can anyone 
(principal member) set up a mail server for use to talk about this.  
ASAP!


Thanks
Brian

Charles Wu wrote:


I know you don't support the idea of group buys.
  



It's not that I don't support the concept, truthfully, I could care 
less
whether you buy your gear from a distributor, reseller, or direct 
from the

manufacturer

I have just seen it implemented (rather unsuccessfully) many times 
by ISPs
such as yourselves, and am trying to help you avoid making such a 
mistake


The idea of a WISP buying group is nothing original, for the past 
few years,
I've seen this idea come up at least once a month on some WISP 
listserv /

forum / etc...

However, if it was really that "easy and simple" -- why hasn't it been
implemented yet on a consistent long term basis?

Here's my observation

-The guys that fail with their buying group end up getting their 
inventory

liquidated on Ebay, go bankrupt and disappear

-The guys that just barely sell their inventory realize how much of 
a PITA

the organization/operation is, and go back to buying from their
distributor/reseller/etc

-The guys that are extremely successful become resellers/distributors

-Charles

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[A. Huppenthal]

we're using 'mailman'  listserv by the way.

Brian Rohrbacher wrote:

All I know is I talked to a VAR and was assured I could get the prices 
I requested and have the process work the way I asked about.
I'm just doing a little leg work to see what happens.  When I compare 
what I can buy now, a $550 single pack.  Because I can't even afford 
25 pack.  To the 100 pack prices of something like $260.
It's a no brainer Charles.  The $290 saving per radios covers any 
admin fees in savings by far.  If you want Canopy radios, hit me off 
list.  The only way I currently plan of profiting from this is the 
$290 savings on each radio.  I just want 900 gear I can afford.


Brian

Charles Wu wrote:


Brian, I commend you on taking the initiative and (hopefully) proving my
naysaying wrong

However, waving my magic wand (or maybe I'm just full of @[EMAIL PROTECTED]), I 
predict

the following 2 outcomes will occur:

1. Brian will not be able to get enough interest / coordination / 
payment

for the buying club to succeed, and nothing will be bought

2. Brian will be smart enough to coordinate the buying club, but will
realize that the coordination of the buying club is a lot of effort 
(effort
that takes away time from running his WISP) -- at that point, he will 
either


(a) stop doing the buying club, since he will need to address his 
day-to-day

business needs / obligations / demands

(b) continune doing the buying club, but w/ an initial moderate 
markup (to
handle his administration costs) -- over time, if he continues to 
succeed,

he will evolve into a full fledged reseller / distributor for WISPs
providing various value-added services to varying levels of 
customers, and

the "middleman" will return

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[A. Huppenthal]

You should be getting a notice of the mailing list creation. Will walk 
through the list manager steps and get you the listmanger's account 
information. Will be using rfarc.org as the base address - a local 
non-profit ham radio domain that has private list features. Let's see 
how it goes.


Brian Rohrbacher wrote:

All I know is I talked to a VAR and was assured I could get the prices 
I requested and have the process work the way I asked about.
I'm just doing a little leg work to see what happens.  When I compare 
what I can buy now, a $550 single pack.  Because I can't even afford 
25 pack.  To the 100 pack prices of something like $260.
It's a no brainer Charles.  The $290 saving per radios covers any 
admin fees in savings by far.  If you want Canopy radios, hit me off 
list.  The only way I currently plan of profiting from this is the 
$290 savings on each radio.  I just want 900 gear I can afford.


Brian

Charles Wu wrote:


Brian, I commend you on taking the initiative and (hopefully) proving my
naysaying wrong

However, waving my magic wand (or maybe I'm just full of @[EMAIL PROTECTED]), I 
predict

the following 2 outcomes will occur:

1. Brian will not be able to get enough interest / coordination / 
payment

for the buying club to succeed, and nothing will be bought

2. Brian will be smart enough to coordinate the buying club, but will
realize that the coordination of the buying club is a lot of effort 
(effort
that takes away time from running his WISP) -- at that point, he will 
either


(a) stop doing the buying club, since he will need to address his 
day-to-day

business needs / obligations / demands

(b) continune doing the buying club, but w/ an initial moderate 
markup (to
handle his administration costs) -- over time, if he continues to 
succeed,

he will evolve into a full fledged reseller / distributor for WISPs
providing various value-added services to varying levels of 
customers, and

the "middleman" will return

-Charles

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[Brian Rohrbacher]

That would be great.  People are asking me about 5.2, 5.7, 2.4, as well 
as 900.  I just want 900 for now.  If we get a place to talk about it, 
someone else can coordinate the same with each product.


A. Huppenthal wrote:


Brian,

I'll see if can do this shortly.

-Alex

Brian Rohrbacher wrote:

I'm getting a lot of interest off list on the group idea.  Can anyone 
(principal member) set up a mail server for use to talk about this.  
ASAP!


Thanks
Brian

Charles Wu wrote:


I know you don't support the idea of group buys.
  



It's not that I don't support the concept, truthfully, I could care 
less
whether you buy your gear from a distributor, reseller, or direct 
from the

manufacturer

I have just seen it implemented (rather unsuccessfully) many times 
by ISPs
such as yourselves, and am trying to help you avoid making such a 
mistake


The idea of a WISP buying group is nothing original, for the past 
few years,
I've seen this idea come up at least once a month on some WISP 
listserv /

forum / etc...

However, if it was really that "easy and simple" -- why hasn't it been
implemented yet on a consistent long term basis?

Here's my observation

-The guys that fail with their buying group end up getting their 
inventory

liquidated on Ebay, go bankrupt and disappear

-The guys that just barely sell their inventory realize how much of 
a PITA

the organization/operation is, and go back to buying from their
distributor/reseller/etc

-The guys that are extremely successful become resellers/distributors

-Charles

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[A. Huppenthal]

Brian,

I'll see if can do this shortly.

-Alex

Brian Rohrbacher wrote:

I'm getting a lot of interest off list on the group idea.  Can anyone 
(principal member) set up a mail server for use to talk about this.  ASAP!


Thanks
Brian

Charles Wu wrote:


I know you don't support the idea of group buys.
   



It's not that I don't support the concept, truthfully, I could care less
whether you buy your gear from a distributor, reseller, or direct from the
manufacturer

I have just seen it implemented (rather unsuccessfully) many times by ISPs
such as yourselves, and am trying to help you avoid making such a mistake

The idea of a WISP buying group is nothing original, for the past few years,
I've seen this idea come up at least once a month on some WISP listserv /
forum / etc...

However, if it was really that "easy and simple" -- why hasn't it been
implemented yet on a consistent long term basis?

Here's my observation

-The guys that fail with their buying group end up getting their inventory
liquidated on Ebay, go bankrupt and disappear

-The guys that just barely sell their inventory realize how much of a PITA
the organization/operation is, and go back to buying from their
distributor/reseller/etc

-The guys that are extremely successful become resellers/distributors

-Charles

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Re: [WISPA] INSURANCE NOW canopy prices

[A. Huppenthal]

Yes, (joke) let's assure ourselves that all things are motivated by 
increasing one individual's bank account vs. the group's membership's 
benefits. Part of the reason I'm not participating in Part 15 et.al. is 
that the organizers of any membership benefit have to do so with the 
assumption that the GOAL of the effort is member benefits, not organizer 
benefits from organizing it.


How much money have you made off WISPA John, Rich, Matt, Marlon, et.al? 
I know its a rethorical question - I know how much - none.


If we're always looking at ways we can take the membership for a dollar 
ride we're not in the right groove.


Isn't it enough that not only the organizer gets a benefit by getting 
his costs down, but that he's going to have lots of other participants 
potentially shaking his hand and thanking him for the effort? In this 
organization, I hope so.



Charles Wu wrote:

I'm getting a lot of interest off list on the group idea.  Can anyone 

(principal member) set up a mail server for use to talk about this.  ASAP!
 
Call me a profit-hungering leech, but if I were you, I would try to 
set up the listserv myself
 
Remember, the hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of dollars that 
Bullit made off of WISPCON & Part-15 all started from a simple Orinoco 
listserv (on a windows box too)
 
-Charles
 
P.S. better do it before that leech formerly known as Charles steals 
your idea 


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[Brian Rohrbacher]

All I know is I talked to a VAR and was assured I could get the prices I 
requested and have the process work the way I asked about.
I'm just doing a little leg work to see what happens.  When I compare 
what I can buy now, a $550 single pack.  Because I can't even afford 25 
pack.  To the 100 pack prices of something like $260.
It's a no brainer Charles.  The $290 saving per radios covers any admin 
fees in savings by far.  If you want Canopy radios, hit me off list.  
The only way I currently plan of profiting from this is the $290 savings 
on each radio.  I just want 900 gear I can afford.


Brian

Charles Wu wrote:


Brian, I commend you on taking the initiative and (hopefully) proving my
naysaying wrong

However, waving my magic wand (or maybe I'm just full of @[EMAIL PROTECTED]), I 
predict
the following 2 outcomes will occur:

1. Brian will not be able to get enough interest / coordination / payment
for the buying club to succeed, and nothing will be bought

2. Brian will be smart enough to coordinate the buying club, but will
realize that the coordination of the buying club is a lot of effort (effort
that takes away time from running his WISP) -- at that point, he will either

(a) stop doing the buying club, since he will need to address his day-to-day
business needs / obligations / demands

(b) continune doing the buying club, but w/ an initial moderate markup (to
handle his administration costs) -- over time, if he continues to succeed,
he will evolve into a full fledged reseller / distributor for WISPs
providing various value-added services to varying levels of customers, and
the "middleman" will return

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[A. Huppenthal]

What club are you talking about Charles?

I predict you'll be asking Brian to participate in the next buy Charles. :-)

Charles Wu wrote:


Brian, I commend you on taking the initiative and (hopefully) proving my
naysaying wrong

However, waving my magic wand (or maybe I'm just full of @[EMAIL PROTECTED]), I 
predict
the following 2 outcomes will occur:

1. Brian will not be able to get enough interest / coordination / payment
for the buying club to succeed, and nothing will be bought

2. Brian will be smart enough to coordinate the buying club, but will
realize that the coordination of the buying club is a lot of effort (effort
that takes away time from running his WISP) -- at that point, he will either

(a) stop doing the buying club, since he will need to address his day-to-day
business needs / obligations / demands

(b) continune doing the buying club, but w/ an initial moderate markup (to
handle his administration costs) -- over time, if he continues to succeed,
he will evolve into a full fledged reseller / distributor for WISPs
providing various value-added services to varying levels of customers, and
the "middleman" will return

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Re: [WISPA] INSURANCE NOW canopy prices

[A. Huppenthal]

I think we're not on the same page.

If Brian or whomever wants to do a group buy its not as an ongoing 
service, but established to buy X units for Y buyers when Y buyers exist 
for X units. The idea that you buy more than you need, have to inventory 
it and all that crap is for distributors, not for group buys.


Where it makes sense, be it monitoring systems - where I do have an 
interest or other product / services that others interested in, I'll 
join up with like-minded individuals and go buy a bunch of them and get 
the volume benefit, end of story. I don't care about someone else 
inventorying them, training me, hand holding me, returning warranty 
items, financing them for me, or the myriad of wonderful services good 
distributors can do, since I've paid for that already.


I don't care if the organizer eventually wants to become a distributor, 
or for that matter is a distributor.


I *DO* care about the fact that BUYING POWER means groups of members 
pooling resources in order to lower operating COSTS for WISPs.


The outcome I'd like to see is WISPs gain buying power, compete on a 
level playing field with Cable and Telco and other big buyers. Everyone 
can play.


And frankly, I support WISPAs direct involvement in paying for some of 
the overhead to facilitate this effort. I'm pretty much alone on this 
with the Board, but that's the nature of being a human occasionally. 
Let's keep it simple.



Charles Wu wrote:


I know you don't support the idea of group buys.
   



It's not that I don't support the concept, truthfully, I could care less
whether you buy your gear from a distributor, reseller, or direct from the
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Title: Message


>I'm 
getting a lot of interest off list on the group idea.  Can anyone 
(principal member) set up a mail server for use to talk about this.  
ASAP!
 
Call me a 
profit-hungering leech, but if I were you, I would try to set up the listserv 
myself
 
Remember, the 
hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of dollars that Bullit made off of 
WISPCON & Part-15 all started from a simple Orinoco listserv (on a windows 
box too)
 
-Charles
 
P.S. better do it 
before that leech formerly known as Charles steals your idea 

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[Charles Wu]

>I fully second your post.
>Well said.

>Tom DeReggi
>RapidDSL & Wireless, Inc
>IntAirNet- Fixed Wireless Broadband

I'm not trying to pick on Tom, but it is worth noting that he also is
someone who's gone to the "other side"
Basically, Tom became a Trango STAR thinking that he'd save a few extra 
on his gear (by aggregating other WISP purchases), and found out, that much
to his chagrin, that it's hard enough to run 1 startup business, let alone 2

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[Charles Wu]

Brian, I commend you on taking the initiative and (hopefully) proving my
naysaying wrong

However, waving my magic wand (or maybe I'm just full of @[EMAIL PROTECTED]), I 
predict
the following 2 outcomes will occur:

1. Brian will not be able to get enough interest / coordination / payment
for the buying club to succeed, and nothing will be bought

2. Brian will be smart enough to coordinate the buying club, but will
realize that the coordination of the buying club is a lot of effort (effort
that takes away time from running his WISP) -- at that point, he will either

(a) stop doing the buying club, since he will need to address his day-to-day
business needs / obligations / demands

(b) continune doing the buying club, but w/ an initial moderate markup (to
handle his administration costs) -- over time, if he continues to succeed,
he will evolve into a full fledged reseller / distributor for WISPs
providing various value-added services to varying levels of customers, and
the "middleman" will return

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Re: [WISPA] INSURANCE NOW canopy prices

[Brian Rohrbacher]

I'm getting a lot of interest off list on the group idea.  Can anyone
(principal member) set up a mail server for use to talk about this. 
ASAP!

Thanks
Brian

Charles Wu wrote:

  
I know you don't support the idea of group buys.

  
  
It's not that I don't support the concept, truthfully, I could care less
whether you buy your gear from a distributor, reseller, or direct from the
manufacturer

I have just seen it implemented (rather unsuccessfully) many times by ISPs
such as yourselves, and am trying to help you avoid making such a mistake

The idea of a WISP buying group is nothing original, for the past few years,
I've seen this idea come up at least once a month on some WISP listserv /
forum / etc...

However, if it was really that "easy and simple" -- why hasn't it been
implemented yet on a consistent long term basis?

Here's my observation

-The guys that fail with their buying group end up getting their inventory
liquidated on Ebay, go bankrupt and disappear

-The guys that just barely sell their inventory realize how much of a PITA
the organization/operation is, and go back to buying from their
distributor/reseller/etc

-The guys that are extremely successful become resellers/distributors

-Charles

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[Charles Wu]

> I know you don't support the idea of group buys.

It's not that I don't support the concept, truthfully, I could care less
whether you buy your gear from a distributor, reseller, or direct from the
manufacturer

I have just seen it implemented (rather unsuccessfully) many times by ISPs
such as yourselves, and am trying to help you avoid making such a mistake

The idea of a WISP buying group is nothing original, for the past few years,
I've seen this idea come up at least once a month on some WISP listserv /
forum / etc...

However, if it was really that "easy and simple" -- why hasn't it been
implemented yet on a consistent long term basis?

Here's my observation

-The guys that fail with their buying group end up getting their inventory
liquidated on Ebay, go bankrupt and disappear

-The guys that just barely sell their inventory realize how much of a PITA
the organization/operation is, and go back to buying from their
distributor/reseller/etc

-The guys that are extremely successful become resellers/distributors

-Charles

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Re: [WISPA] INSURANCE NOW canopy prices

[Brian Rohrbacher]

The var said he'd rather not do credit cards (extra 3% if you want it) 
but he'll do that math and see.  He assured me that the way we're doing 
it, he is the only one who could get "stuck".  Besides, this won't be 
open for public.  This is just a few of us who are going to buy 
together.  We all know each other.


A. Huppenthal wrote:

The risk should be - the guy who gets my money sends me my SMs.. These 
things come in single unit boxes, so repacking them isn't a huge deal. 
10 boxes of 10 each? I think that's a reasonable limit. Trusting 
someone on the list to do the buy with my $2600 is fine. I'll do some 
due diligience on the group buyer. If there's some references, an 
address, a person we know, we'll that's all fine wit me. Paypal has 
some control over what you suggest is a hole.


Travis Johnson wrote:


Hi,

There are so many risks that _someone_ is going to have to assume. 
Example: If I say "put me down for 20 units and here's my credit 
card". You place the order with the distributor, and I get my items. 
However, either the distributor will put each order in different 
names (thus, once the boss finds out it will be done), or they all go 
under a single name. Now, with my credit card being charged, but only 
a single invoice created for the "big" order, I can contact my credit 
card company and file a chargeback. There will be no invoice for the 
purchase, and nothing in my name. I just got 20 radios for free and 
the distributor just lost big money.


This is only one example. There are 10 other risks to this "project" 
and someone will have to take them all...


Why not just lease your CPE? Even doing 25 at a time, I think you can 
get 30 or 60 days before your first payment.


Travis
Microserv

Brian Rohrbacher wrote:

Basically what I propose (in a nutshell) is going to a the 
distrobuters and saying this.  I have ten or twenty or whatever 
WISPs and we all want to buy ten units of *insert brand here* and 
have them all shipped to different addresses and charged to 
different accounts.  What are you willing to do to accomidate us?   
I know there are a number of distobuters out there.  Ones that do 
millions worth of gear all the way down to ones that operate WISPs 
and became resellers of the gear they use in order to get their 
volume up.  If ten people can install ten a month.  That is 1200 a 
year.  If we look, I bet there is a reseller somewhere who wants to 
increase volume by 1200 a year.  5k a year wouldn't be stretching 
the imagination too far either.


Am I dumb here guys?  Why wouldn't this work?

Tom DeReggi wrote:


Charles,

I fully second your post.
Well said.

Tom DeReggi
RapidDSL & Wireless, Inc
IntAirNet- Fixed Wireless Broadband


- Original Message - From: "Charles Wu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "'WISPA General List'" 
Sent: Monday, December 12, 2005 9:25 PM
Subject: RE: [WISPA] INSURANCE NOW canopy prices



You would think it would work that way, but Volume Buying ends up 
eating

the organization and the organization becomes caught up in being a
volume club.


We all know that there's more to a WISP than just putting up an AP and
getting a T1 line

Having run both a WISP and a distribution company, I can personally 
attest
to the fact that there's more to distribution (which is what your 
proposing)

than breaking up a 500 pack amongst WISP

Have you considered all the risks / implications that the buying group
faces? For starters, there's the question of payment -- given that the
buying group has no / limited credit, chances are that any vendor will
require cash up front for the purchase

So, for example, say Motorola Canopy is the product WISPA chooses
Then WISPA / Buying Group needs to come up w/ $100k to purchase 
that 500

pack (at say, $200 / unit for simplicity's sake)
Then, WISPA / Buying Group needs to come up w/ a warehouse to store 
stuff
Then, WISPA / Buying Group needs to come up w/ a shipper/logistics 
guy to

repackage / ship stuff

On top of that, chances are, 50% of the WISPs who committed to 
purchasing
the packs will renege and/or delay their deliveries due to 
unforseen things
that always happen in deployments (e.g.,  lightning, customers 
don't sign

on, interference from competitor, DSL coming to town)

So now, WISPA / Buying Group needs to hire a sales guy to sell 
excess units


Now, you've added overhead (and you need to add an administrative 
fee /

margin to compensate)

In the meantime, either

1. Motorola to announce a 50% price reduction in their Canopy line, 
and all
WISPA members now wanting the new lower price (therefore causing a 
huge

loss)
2. Trango (or some other company) to come out w/ the new "flavor of 
the
month" and no one wanting the inventory anymore, sticking WISPA w/ 
$100k

worth of boat anchors

Re: [WISPA] INSURANCE NOW canopy prices

[Brian Rohrbacher]

I sure am not going to take anyone's money.  :)  Too bad you don't use 
900, that is what I am trying to use to get this started.  If you could 
set us a list asap, that would be great.  Then we could add a dozen or 
so people to the list (people trusted and known)and talk about the details.


A. Huppenthal wrote:


It'll work, you just do it. The details are all bulls*it.

Set up a closed email list for people who are interested. If you can 
wait a week or two I can setup an email list for that, if you like. 
People who aren't interested are going to give you one million reason 
why the earth is flat, or whatever their view is.


My only concern is that someone gets screwed because there is a liar, 
cheat, thief in the process. Else, its cheap gear for cheap prices 
that *works*. However, if your don't know that, likely you'll need an 
AP. hmmm... if anyone wants to borrow a 5.7 AP from me, you can. I'll 
lend it out for a week, you pay the post both ways and *if* it come 
back broken, *you* agree to replace it in 10 days with a working one. 
Turns out i have enough canopy stuff until late Jan. Contact me 
off-list if you like. Frankly if the group buy guy wants to handle 
loaners to the membership/group that's find with me. I'll toss $100 in 
the kitty toward 4 loaner APs - a 5.2, 5.7, 2.4 (junk) and 900 mhz 
(I'll never use).. Got a paypal account, I'll send the money now.



Brian Rohrbacher wrote:

Basically what I propose (in a nutshell) is going to a the 
distrobuters and saying this.  I have ten or twenty or whatever WISPs 
and we all want to buy ten units of *insert brand here* and have them 
all shipped to different addresses and charged to different 
accounts.  What are you willing to do to accomidate us?   I know 
there are a number of distobuters out there.  Ones that do millions 
worth of gear all the way down to ones that operate WISPs and became 
resellers of the gear they use in order to get their volume up.  If 
ten people can install ten a month.  That is 1200 a year.  If we 
look, I bet there is a reseller somewhere who wants to increase 
volume by 1200 a year.  5k a year wouldn't be stretching the 
imagination too far either.


Am I dumb here guys?  Why wouldn't this work?

Tom DeReggi wrote:


Charles,

I fully second your post.
Well said.

Tom DeReggi
RapidDSL & Wireless, Inc
IntAirNet- Fixed Wireless Broadband


- Original Message - From: "Charles Wu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "'WISPA General List'" 
Sent: Monday, December 12, 2005 9:25 PM
Subject: RE: [WISPA] INSURANCE NOW canopy prices



You would think it would work that way, but Volume Buying ends up 
eating

the organization and the organization becomes caught up in being a
volume club.


We all know that there's more to a WISP than just putting up an AP and
getting a T1 line

Having run both a WISP and a distribution company, I can personally 
attest
to the fact that there's more to distribution (which is what your 
proposing)

than breaking up a 500 pack amongst WISP

Have you considered all the risks / implications that the buying group
faces? For starters, there's the question of payment -- given that the
buying group has no / limited credit, chances are that any vendor will
require cash up front for the purchase

So, for example, say Motorola Canopy is the product WISPA chooses
Then WISPA / Buying Group needs to come up w/ $100k to purchase that 
500

pack (at say, $200 / unit for simplicity's sake)
Then, WISPA / Buying Group needs to come up w/ a warehouse to store 
stuff
Then, WISPA / Buying Group needs to come up w/ a shipper/logistics 
guy to

repackage / ship stuff

On top of that, chances are, 50% of the WISPs who committed to 
purchasing
the packs will renege and/or delay their deliveries due to unforseen 
things
that always happen in deployments (e.g.,  lightning, customers don't 
sign

on, interference from competitor, DSL coming to town)

So now, WISPA / Buying Group needs to hire a sales guy to sell 
excess units


Now, you've added overhead (and you need to add an administrative fee /
margin to compensate)

In the meantime, either

1. Motorola to announce a 50% price reduction in their Canopy line, 
and all

WISPA members now wanting the new lower price (therefore causing a huge
loss)
2. Trango (or some other company) to come out w/ the new "flavor of the
month" and no one wanting the inventory anymore, sticking WISPA w/ 
$100k

worth of boat anchors

-Charles


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[Brian Rohrbacher]

I believe we can make it happen.  Pretty much, few of us will go in and 
buy together.  Probably going to just be a small group to stay under 
moto's radar.  Enough to get a 100 pack at a time.


A. Huppenthal wrote:

I like the 100 pack - but Mote sometimes gives away a couple of 
backhuals with a 500 pack and other promos.. They change from time to 
time, whomever wants to run with it will have to make some calls. once 
we go underground on this deal, we can have a couple of 
teleconferences, and I'll cough up my secrets. To some degree its not 
a good idea to get to the precise suppliers, prices, deals and so on 
on a public list.. Sometimes Moto takes a dim view of group buys, and 
snaps the elastic of the distributor in unpleasent ways


Travis Johnson wrote:

Also, how much of a "real" savings are you going to see buying a 500 
pack compared with a 100 pack? I'm not sure how the pricing structure 
works with Moto, but with other places the biggest savings is from 
10/20 packs to 100 or 250 packs. Going from 100 to 500 yields very 
minimal changes ($10 per SM/SU would be my guess).


Travis
Microserv

Brian Rohrbacher wrote:

Well, I'm not a Canopy user, but am close to making the leap.  
(would have done it long time ago if gear was a reasonable price)


Whoever buys the gear.  Group name or Joe Blow.
Attention Canopy users how are warranty issues handled?  If I buy 
gear on ebay can I send it into Moto for warranty?  Or is it void 
because I didn't buy from authorized reseller?


Brian

Travis Johnson wrote:

And, the other issue is the purchase will be made in the "group" 
name, so how do you handle warranty issues?


Travis
Microserv

Charles Wu wrote:



You would think it would work that way, but Volume Buying ends up 
eating the organization and the organization becomes caught up in 
being a volume club.



We all know that there's more to a WISP than just putting up an AP 
and

getting a T1 line

Having run both a WISP and a distribution company, I can 
personally attest
to the fact that there's more to distribution (which is what your 
proposing)

than breaking up a 500 pack amongst WISP

Have you considered all the risks / implications that the buying 
group
faces? For starters, there's the question of payment -- given that 
the
buying group has no / limited credit, chances are that any vendor 
will

require cash up front for the purchase

So, for example, say Motorola Canopy is the product WISPA chooses
Then WISPA / Buying Group needs to come up w/ $100k to purchase 
that 500

pack (at say, $200 / unit for simplicity's sake)
Then, WISPA / Buying Group needs to come up w/ a warehouse to 
store stuff
Then, WISPA / Buying Group needs to come up w/ a shipper/logistics 
guy to

repackage / ship stuff

On top of that, chances are, 50% of the WISPs who committed to 
purchasing
the packs will renege and/or delay their deliveries due to 
unforseen things
that always happen in deployments (e.g.,  lightning, customers 
don't sign

on, interference from competitor, DSL coming to town)

So now, WISPA / Buying Group needs to hire a sales guy to sell 
excess units


Now, you've added overhead (and you need to add an administrative 
fee /

margin to compensate)

In the meantime, either

1. Motorola to announce a 50% price reduction in their Canopy 
line, and all
WISPA members now wanting the new lower price (therefore causing a 
huge

loss)
2. Trango (or some other company) to come out w/ the new "flavor 
of the
month" and no one wanting the inventory anymore, sticking WISPA w/ 
$100k

worth of boat anchors

-Charles


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Re: [WISPA] INSURANCE NOW canopy prices

[A. Huppenthal]

cool

Brian Rohrbacher wrote:


I'll make some calls tomorrow and see what the distributors say.

Travis Johnson wrote:


Hi,

There are so many risks that _someone_ is going to have to assume. 
Example: If I say "put me down for 20 units and here's my credit 
card". You place the order with the distributor, and I get my items. 
However, either the distributor will put each order in different 
names (thus, once the boss finds out it will be done), or they all go 
under a single name. Now, with my credit card being charged, but only 
a single invoice created for the "big" order, I can contact my credit 
card company and file a chargeback. There will be no invoice for the 
purchase, and nothing in my name. I just got 20 radios for free and 
the distributor just lost big money.


This is only one example. There are 10 other risks to this "project" 
and someone will have to take them all...


Why not just lease your CPE? Even doing 25 at a time, I think you can 
get 30 or 60 days before your first payment.


Travis
Microserv

Brian Rohrbacher wrote:

Basically what I propose (in a nutshell) is going to a the 
distrobuters and saying this.  I have ten or twenty or whatever 
WISPs and we all want to buy ten units of *insert brand here* and 
have them all shipped to different addresses and charged to 
different accounts.  What are you willing to do to accomidate us?   
I know there are a number of distobuters out there.  Ones that do 
millions worth of gear all the way down to ones that operate WISPs 
and became resellers of the gear they use in order to get their 
volume up.  If ten people can install ten a month.  That is 1200 a 
year.  If we look, I bet there is a reseller somewhere who wants to 
increase volume by 1200 a year.  5k a year wouldn't be stretching 
the imagination too far either.


Am I dumb here guys?  Why wouldn't this work?

Tom DeReggi wrote:


Charles,

I fully second your post.
Well said.

Tom DeReggi
RapidDSL & Wireless, Inc
IntAirNet- Fixed Wireless Broadband


- Original Message - From: "Charles Wu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "'WISPA General List'" 
Sent: Monday, December 12, 2005 9:25 PM
Subject: RE: [WISPA] INSURANCE NOW canopy prices



You would think it would work that way, but Volume Buying ends up 
eating

the organization and the organization becomes caught up in being a
volume club.


We all know that there's more to a WISP than just putting up an AP and
getting a T1 line

Having run both a WISP and a distribution company, I can personally 
attest
to the fact that there's more to distribution (which is what your 
proposing)

than breaking up a 500 pack amongst WISP

Have you considered all the risks / implications that the buying group
faces? For starters, there's the question of payment -- given that the
buying group has no / limited credit, chances are that any vendor will
require cash up front for the purchase

So, for example, say Motorola Canopy is the product WISPA chooses
Then WISPA / Buying Group needs to come up w/ $100k to purchase 
that 500

pack (at say, $200 / unit for simplicity's sake)
Then, WISPA / Buying Group needs to come up w/ a warehouse to store 
stuff
Then, WISPA / Buying Group needs to come up w/ a shipper/logistics 
guy to

repackage / ship stuff

On top of that, chances are, 50% of the WISPs who committed to 
purchasing
the packs will renege and/or delay their deliveries due to 
unforseen things
that always happen in deployments (e.g.,  lightning, customers 
don't sign

on, interference from competitor, DSL coming to town)

So now, WISPA / Buying Group needs to hire a sales guy to sell 
excess units


Now, you've added overhead (and you need to add an administrative 
fee /

margin to compensate)

In the meantime, either

1. Motorola to announce a 50% price reduction in their Canopy line, 
and all
WISPA members now wanting the new lower price (therefore causing a 
huge

loss)
2. Trango (or some other company) to come out w/ the new "flavor of 
the
month" and no one wanting the inventory anymore, sticking WISPA w/ 
$100k

worth of boat anchors

-Charles


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Re: [WISPA] INSURANCE NOW canopy prices

[A. Huppenthal]

The risk should be - the guy who gets my money sends me my SMs.. These 
things come in single unit boxes, so repacking them isn't a huge deal. 
10 boxes of 10 each? I think that's a reasonable limit. Trusting someone 
on the list to do the buy with my $2600 is fine. I'll do some due 
diligience on the group buyer. If there's some references, an address, a 
person we know, we'll that's all fine wit me. Paypal has some control 
over what you suggest is a hole.


Travis Johnson wrote:


Hi,

There are so many risks that _someone_ is going to have to assume. 
Example: If I say "put me down for 20 units and here's my credit 
card". You place the order with the distributor, and I get my items. 
However, either the distributor will put each order in different names 
(thus, once the boss finds out it will be done), or they all go under 
a single name. Now, with my credit card being charged, but only a 
single invoice created for the "big" order, I can contact my credit 
card company and file a chargeback. There will be no invoice for the 
purchase, and nothing in my name. I just got 20 radios for free and 
the distributor just lost big money.


This is only one example. There are 10 other risks to this "project" 
and someone will have to take them all...


Why not just lease your CPE? Even doing 25 at a time, I think you can 
get 30 or 60 days before your first payment.


Travis
Microserv

Brian Rohrbacher wrote:

Basically what I propose (in a nutshell) is going to a the 
distrobuters and saying this.  I have ten or twenty or whatever WISPs 
and we all want to buy ten units of *insert brand here* and have them 
all shipped to different addresses and charged to different 
accounts.  What are you willing to do to accomidate us?   I know 
there are a number of distobuters out there.  Ones that do millions 
worth of gear all the way down to ones that operate WISPs and became 
resellers of the gear they use in order to get their volume up.  If 
ten people can install ten a month.  That is 1200 a year.  If we 
look, I bet there is a reseller somewhere who wants to increase 
volume by 1200 a year.  5k a year wouldn't be stretching the 
imagination too far either.


Am I dumb here guys?  Why wouldn't this work?

Tom DeReggi wrote:


Charles,

I fully second your post.
Well said.

Tom DeReggi
RapidDSL & Wireless, Inc
IntAirNet- Fixed Wireless Broadband


- Original Message - From: "Charles Wu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "'WISPA General List'" 
Sent: Monday, December 12, 2005 9:25 PM
Subject: RE: [WISPA] INSURANCE NOW canopy prices



You would think it would work that way, but Volume Buying ends up 
eating

the organization and the organization becomes caught up in being a
volume club.


We all know that there's more to a WISP than just putting up an AP and
getting a T1 line

Having run both a WISP and a distribution company, I can personally 
attest
to the fact that there's more to distribution (which is what your 
proposing)

than breaking up a 500 pack amongst WISP

Have you considered all the risks / implications that the buying group
faces? For starters, there's the question of payment -- given that the
buying group has no / limited credit, chances are that any vendor will
require cash up front for the purchase

So, for example, say Motorola Canopy is the product WISPA chooses
Then WISPA / Buying Group needs to come up w/ $100k to purchase that 
500

pack (at say, $200 / unit for simplicity's sake)
Then, WISPA / Buying Group needs to come up w/ a warehouse to store 
stuff
Then, WISPA / Buying Group needs to come up w/ a shipper/logistics 
guy to

repackage / ship stuff

On top of that, chances are, 50% of the WISPs who committed to 
purchasing
the packs will renege and/or delay their deliveries due to unforseen 
things
that always happen in deployments (e.g.,  lightning, customers don't 
sign

on, interference from competitor, DSL coming to town)

So now, WISPA / Buying Group needs to hire a sales guy to sell 
excess units


Now, you've added overhead (and you need to add an administrative fee /
margin to compensate)

In the meantime, either

1. Motorola to announce a 50% price reduction in their Canopy line, 
and all

WISPA members now wanting the new lower price (therefore causing a huge
loss)
2. Trango (or some other company) to come out w/ the new "flavor of the
month" and no one wanting the inventory anymore, sticking WISPA w/ 
$100k

worth of boat anchors

-Charles


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Re: [WISPA] INSURANCE NOW canopy prices

[A. Huppenthal]

It'll work, you just do it. The details are all bulls*it.

Set up a closed email list for people who are interested. If you can 
wait a week or two I can setup an email list for that, if you like. 
People who aren't interested are going to give you one million reason 
why the earth is flat, or whatever their view is.


My only concern is that someone gets screwed because there is a liar, 
cheat, thief in the process. Else, its cheap gear for cheap prices that 
*works*. However, if your don't know that, likely you'll need an AP. 
hmmm... if anyone wants to borrow a 5.7 AP from me, you can. I'll lend 
it out for a week, you pay the post both ways and *if* it come back 
broken, *you* agree to replace it in 10 days with a working one. Turns 
out i have enough canopy stuff until late Jan. Contact me off-list if 
you like. Frankly if the group buy guy wants to handle loaners to the 
membership/group that's find with me. I'll toss $100 in the kitty toward 
4 loaner APs - a 5.2, 5.7, 2.4 (junk) and 900 mhz (I'll never use).. Got 
a paypal account, I'll send the money now.



Brian Rohrbacher wrote:

Basically what I propose (in a nutshell) is going to a the 
distrobuters and saying this.  I have ten or twenty or whatever WISPs 
and we all want to buy ten units of *insert brand here* and have them 
all shipped to different addresses and charged to different accounts.  
What are you willing to do to accomidate us?   I know there are a 
number of distobuters out there.  Ones that do millions worth of gear 
all the way down to ones that operate WISPs and became resellers of 
the gear they use in order to get their volume up.  If ten people can 
install ten a month.  That is 1200 a year.  If we look, I bet there is 
a reseller somewhere who wants to increase volume by 1200 a year.  5k 
a year wouldn't be stretching the imagination too far either.


Am I dumb here guys?  Why wouldn't this work?

Tom DeReggi wrote:


Charles,

I fully second your post.
Well said.

Tom DeReggi
RapidDSL & Wireless, Inc
IntAirNet- Fixed Wireless Broadband


- Original Message - From: "Charles Wu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "'WISPA General List'" 
Sent: Monday, December 12, 2005 9:25 PM
Subject: RE: [WISPA] INSURANCE NOW canopy prices



You would think it would work that way, but Volume Buying ends up eating
the organization and the organization becomes caught up in being a
volume club.


We all know that there's more to a WISP than just putting up an AP and
getting a T1 line

Having run both a WISP and a distribution company, I can personally 
attest
to the fact that there's more to distribution (which is what your 
proposing)

than breaking up a 500 pack amongst WISP

Have you considered all the risks / implications that the buying group
faces? For starters, there's the question of payment -- given that the
buying group has no / limited credit, chances are that any vendor will
require cash up front for the purchase

So, for example, say Motorola Canopy is the product WISPA chooses
Then WISPA / Buying Group needs to come up w/ $100k to purchase that 500
pack (at say, $200 / unit for simplicity's sake)
Then, WISPA / Buying Group needs to come up w/ a warehouse to store 
stuff
Then, WISPA / Buying Group needs to come up w/ a shipper/logistics 
guy to

repackage / ship stuff

On top of that, chances are, 50% of the WISPs who committed to 
purchasing
the packs will renege and/or delay their deliveries due to unforseen 
things
that always happen in deployments (e.g.,  lightning, customers don't 
sign

on, interference from competitor, DSL coming to town)

So now, WISPA / Buying Group needs to hire a sales guy to sell excess 
units


Now, you've added overhead (and you need to add an administrative fee /
margin to compensate)

In the meantime, either

1. Motorola to announce a 50% price reduction in their Canopy line, 
and all

WISPA members now wanting the new lower price (therefore causing a huge
loss)
2. Trango (or some other company) to come out w/ the new "flavor of the
month" and no one wanting the inventory anymore, sticking WISPA w/ $100k
worth of boat anchors

-Charles


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Re: [WISPA] INSURANCE NOW canopy prices

[A. Huppenthal]

I like the 100 pack - but Mote sometimes gives away a couple of 
backhuals with a 500 pack and other promos.. They change from time to 
time, whomever wants to run with it will have to make some calls. once 
we go underground on this deal, we can have a couple of teleconferences, 
and I'll cough up my secrets. To some degree its not a good idea to get 
to the precise suppliers, prices, deals and so on on a public list.. 
Sometimes Moto takes a dim view of group buys, and snaps the elastic of 
the distributor in unpleasent ways


Travis Johnson wrote:

Also, how much of a "real" savings are you going to see buying a 500 
pack compared with a 100 pack? I'm not sure how the pricing structure 
works with Moto, but with other places the biggest savings is from 
10/20 packs to 100 or 250 packs. Going from 100 to 500 yields very 
minimal changes ($10 per SM/SU would be my guess).


Travis
Microserv

Brian Rohrbacher wrote:

Well, I'm not a Canopy user, but am close to making the leap.  (would 
have done it long time ago if gear was a reasonable price)


Whoever buys the gear.  Group name or Joe Blow.
Attention Canopy users how are warranty issues handled?  If I buy 
gear on ebay can I send it into Moto for warranty?  Or is it void 
because I didn't buy from authorized reseller?


Brian

Travis Johnson wrote:

And, the other issue is the purchase will be made in the "group" 
name, so how do you handle warranty issues?


Travis
Microserv

Charles Wu wrote:



You would think it would work that way, but Volume Buying ends up 
eating the organization and the organization becomes caught up in 
being a volume club.



We all know that there's more to a WISP than just putting up an AP and
getting a T1 line

Having run both a WISP and a distribution company, I can personally 
attest
to the fact that there's more to distribution (which is what your 
proposing)

than breaking up a 500 pack amongst WISP

Have you considered all the risks / implications that the buying group
faces? For starters, there's the question of payment -- given that the
buying group has no / limited credit, chances are that any vendor will
require cash up front for the purchase

So, for example, say Motorola Canopy is the product WISPA chooses
Then WISPA / Buying Group needs to come up w/ $100k to purchase 
that 500

pack (at say, $200 / unit for simplicity's sake)
Then, WISPA / Buying Group needs to come up w/ a warehouse to store 
stuff
Then, WISPA / Buying Group needs to come up w/ a shipper/logistics 
guy to

repackage / ship stuff

On top of that, chances are, 50% of the WISPs who committed to 
purchasing
the packs will renege and/or delay their deliveries due to 
unforseen things
that always happen in deployments (e.g.,  lightning, customers 
don't sign

on, interference from competitor, DSL coming to town)

So now, WISPA / Buying Group needs to hire a sales guy to sell 
excess units


Now, you've added overhead (and you need to add an administrative 
fee /

margin to compensate)

In the meantime, either

1. Motorola to announce a 50% price reduction in their Canopy line, 
and all
WISPA members now wanting the new lower price (therefore causing a 
huge

loss)
2. Trango (or some other company) to come out w/ the new "flavor of 
the
month" and no one wanting the inventory anymore, sticking WISPA w/ 
$100k

worth of boat anchors

-Charles


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Re: [WISPA] INSURANCE NOW canopy prices

[A. Huppenthal]

Like I said 1 to 100 failures. Usually we drop them from a roof, or run 
one over.. Often times they still work, but often they don't Its a piece 
of plastic housing with a single board inside. You can get a replacement 
case for $15 as I recall. Nice to have a few around for demo to 
customers. They build them for $25 probably, open one up - there's 
nothing in there. An Altera FPGA - well, other programmable gate array.. 
basically 'make your hardware' on a chip technology.  Check out HDLs if 
you are interested - its how I designed our first DSL modem. Moto isn't 
stupid. Its a good design. The hardware just jumped up a bit in 
complexity recently - but the price jump was nuts. Moto stays in this 
business becasue they are making lots and lots of money. Its not a lost 
leader.


As far as hacking them go.. well, Rich Comroe might tell us.. Hey Rich - 
can we get an HDL for the Moto? :-) oh yea, I can see this list cracking 
open the HDL.. :-) its such a paradigm change... it isn't really like 
programming, well.. as much as programming is like jazz dancing, I suppose.


But crapola boys, we have on the smartest guys in the Motorola Land  - 
one of their top technology leaders as a member of list here. Ask him, 
I'm not anywhere close to the design other than tearing the chips appart 
out of curiousity. He's not  sales man, Rich, didn't we first meet when 
you were VP of Engineering @ Moto? I could be wrong it was yonks ago.



Brian Rohrbacher wrote:

Well, I'm not a Canopy user, but am close to making the leap.  (would 
have done it long time ago if gear was a reasonable price)


Whoever buys the gear.  Group name or Joe Blow.
Attention Canopy users how are warranty issues handled?  If I buy gear 
on ebay can I send it into Moto for warranty?  Or is it void because I 
didn't buy from authorized reseller?


Brian

Travis Johnson wrote:

And, the other issue is the purchase will be made in the "group" 
name, so how do you handle warranty issues?


Travis
Microserv

Charles Wu wrote:



You would think it would work that way, but Volume Buying ends up 
eating the organization and the organization becomes caught up in 
being a volume club.



We all know that there's more to a WISP than just putting up an AP and
getting a T1 line

Having run both a WISP and a distribution company, I can personally 
attest
to the fact that there's more to distribution (which is what your 
proposing)

than breaking up a 500 pack amongst WISP

Have you considered all the risks / implications that the buying group
faces? For starters, there's the question of payment -- given that the
buying group has no / limited credit, chances are that any vendor will
require cash up front for the purchase

So, for example, say Motorola Canopy is the product WISPA chooses
Then WISPA / Buying Group needs to come up w/ $100k to purchase that 
500

pack (at say, $200 / unit for simplicity's sake)
Then, WISPA / Buying Group needs to come up w/ a warehouse to store 
stuff
Then, WISPA / Buying Group needs to come up w/ a shipper/logistics 
guy to

repackage / ship stuff

On top of that, chances are, 50% of the WISPs who committed to 
purchasing
the packs will renege and/or delay their deliveries due to unforseen 
things
that always happen in deployments (e.g.,  lightning, customers don't 
sign

on, interference from competitor, DSL coming to town)

So now, WISPA / Buying Group needs to hire a sales guy to sell 
excess units


Now, you've added overhead (and you need to add an administrative fee /
margin to compensate)

In the meantime, either

1. Motorola to announce a 50% price reduction in their Canopy line, 
and all

WISPA members now wanting the new lower price (therefore causing a huge
loss)
2. Trango (or some other company) to come out w/ the new "flavor of the
month" and no one wanting the inventory anymore, sticking WISPA w/ 
$100k

worth of boat anchors

-Charles


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Re: [WISPA] INSURANCE NOW canopy prices

[A. Huppenthal]

Warranty? what warranty? Do you all really have warranty problems. 
Switch vendors. :-)
Moto doesn't have a warranty program. They die, you throw them away. 
Returning them to my x-distributor resulted in the same thing. They lost 
the returns. Screw it. Buy cheap and manage your own warranty. If you 
really want the warranty, perhaps the group buy co-ordinator would like 
to recive $2 extra per radio to put up a website with MAC addresses and 
to handle each return for $20. But really, I don't want to have anything 
to do with "warrenty" - We're talking $250 items. If you are buying lots 
of APs, well, get a spare and return through the distributor that sold 
the 'lot' to the buying group. Moto doesn't sell direct for example - 
unless you are government. Hey, wait, can we be a government? Know 
anyone on an Indian reservation? They are a government. :-) Perhaps 
they'd like to get involved. There are few Indian businesses in my area, 
unfortunately.



Brian Rohrbacher wrote:


I have never done a group buy, but this is how I would approach it.
First step.  Principal Members only.  You want a deal, fork over 200 
some bucks and support the industry.
Second step.  Find 10 people who want ten units.  (500 if possible, 
but prolly 100 pack to start)

Third step.  Go to moto website and look up resellers.
fourth step.  Call resellers and get quote.  Say "look here.  I have a 
buying group.  I want 100 SMs, charged to 10 credit cards and shipped 
to 10 addresses.  Send me a quote to email"  Forward quote to next 
reseller and go from there.  Whoever is cheaper wins.  If they want 
the business of the buying group, they better figure out how to cut a 
deal.  Am I acting like a know it all Charles?  Would all the 
resellers say screw you if I approached like this?
If all resellers say we can't do this.then I would (big trust 
here) run all cards through paypal and pay with one lump sum and re 
ship from here.  Now add the 1.9% for paypal and add more for extra 
shippingdon't know what that would be, but it would be figured 
before hand.


I just made all that up, but it seems like it would work.  Only 
question is how warranty is handled.  By MAC addy or by who bought the 
radio.


Someone let me know if my approach is out of line.  Never done this 
and might be reinventing the wheel (I hope it rolls)


Brian

A. Huppenthal wrote:


Charles,

I know you don't support the idea of group buys. Enough said. Fact is 
I've done group buys with high-end equipment before - it wasn't 
difficult at all. If you are comparing a public distributor to a 
closed membership buying club, you aren't comparing apples to apples. 
I sure as hell don't want to create a distributor organization.


However, as our discussion continues, I might be willing to send Jim, 
George, Brian or whomever offers a group buy $2600 for 10 Canopy SMs 
if the buy is 100 units and we're all lined up. I don't need support, 
training, stocking, any of the services that distributors offer. 
Frankly, I don't need my distributor under cutting me to sell direct 
to customers. You have your pros and cons for going to distributors 
for *everything*. Certainly what's being discussed here isn't 
pretending to create a distributor that has *everything*..


Frankly I think the board with the exception of myself, uniformly 
doesn't support group buys.


The buyers create the relatonship for the purpose of the buy, it ends 
when the product is delivered.



Charles Wu wrote:



You would think it would work that way, but Volume Buying ends up 
eating the organization and the organization becomes caught up in 
being a volume club.



We all know that there's more to a WISP than just putting up an AP and
getting a T1 line

Having run both a WISP and a distribution company, I can personally 
attest
to the fact that there's more to distribution (which is what your 
proposing)

than breaking up a 500 pack amongst WISP

Have you considered all the risks / implications that the buying group
faces? For starters, there's the question of payment -- given that the
buying group has no / limited credit, chances are that any vendor will
require cash up front for the purchase

So, for example, say Motorola Canopy is the product WISPA chooses
Then WISPA / Buying Group needs to come up w/ $100k to purchase that 
500

pack (at say, $200 / unit for simplicity's sake)
Then, WISPA / Buying Group needs to come up w/ a warehouse to store 
stuff
Then, WISPA / Buying Group needs to come up w/ a shipper/logistics 
guy to

repackage / ship stuff

On top of that, chances are, 50% of the WISPs who committed to 
purchasing
the packs will renege and/or delay their deliveries due to unforseen 
things
that always happen in deployments (e.g.,  lightning, customers don't 
sign

on, interference from competitor, DSL coming to town)

So now, WISPA / Buying Group needs to hire a sales guy to sell 
excess units


Now, you've added overhead (and you need to add an administrative fee /
margin to c

Re: [WISPA] INSURANCE NOW canopy prices

[A. Huppenthal]

frankly, if I'm buying them for 50% off, I'll buy a spare for every 50 
units I buy. failure rate on moto's is about 1 in 100


Travis Johnson wrote:

And, the other issue is the purchase will be made in the "group" name, 
so how do you handle warranty issues?


Travis
Microserv

Charles Wu wrote:



You would think it would work that way, but Volume Buying ends up 
eating the organization and the organization becomes caught up in 
being a volume club.



We all know that there's more to a WISP than just putting up an AP and
getting a T1 line

Having run both a WISP and a distribution company, I can personally 
attest
to the fact that there's more to distribution (which is what your 
proposing)

than breaking up a 500 pack amongst WISP

Have you considered all the risks / implications that the buying group
faces? For starters, there's the question of payment -- given that the
buying group has no / limited credit, chances are that any vendor will
require cash up front for the purchase

So, for example, say Motorola Canopy is the product WISPA chooses
Then WISPA / Buying Group needs to come up w/ $100k to purchase that 500
pack (at say, $200 / unit for simplicity's sake)
Then, WISPA / Buying Group needs to come up w/ a warehouse to store 
stuff
Then, WISPA / Buying Group needs to come up w/ a shipper/logistics 
guy to

repackage / ship stuff

On top of that, chances are, 50% of the WISPs who committed to 
purchasing
the packs will renege and/or delay their deliveries due to unforseen 
things
that always happen in deployments (e.g.,  lightning, customers don't 
sign

on, interference from competitor, DSL coming to town)

So now, WISPA / Buying Group needs to hire a sales guy to sell excess 
units


Now, you've added overhead (and you need to add an administrative fee /
margin to compensate)

In the meantime, either

1. Motorola to announce a 50% price reduction in their Canopy line, 
and all

WISPA members now wanting the new lower price (therefore causing a huge
loss)
2. Trango (or some other company) to come out w/ the new "flavor of the
month" and no one wanting the inventory anymore, sticking WISPA w/ $100k
worth of boat anchors

-Charles


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Re: [WISPA] INSURANCE NOW canopy prices

[Ron Wallace]

Sounds good to me Brian.  Try it.  All they can say is 'no'.  As for 
all the down sides, we haven't bought anything yet.  Lets go one step 
at a time here.

But I say go for it.

 Original message 
>Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2005 23:52:52 -0500
>From: Brian Rohrbacher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>  
>Subject: Re: [WISPA] INSURANCE NOW canopy prices  
>To: WISPA General List 
>
>Basically what I propose (in a nutshell) is going to a the 
distrobuters 
>and saying this.  I have ten or twenty or whatever WISPs and we all 
want 
>to buy ten units of *insert brand here* and have them all shipped to 
>different addresses and charged to different accounts.  What are you 
>willing to do to accomidate us?   I know there are a number of 
>distobuters out there.  Ones that do millions worth of gear all the 
way 
>down to ones that operate WISPs and became resellers of the gear they 
>use in order to get their volume up.  If ten people can install ten a 
>month.  That is 1200 a year.  If we look, I bet there is a reseller 
>somewhere who wants to increase volume by 1200 a year.  5k a year 
>wouldn't be stretching the imagination too far either.
>
>Am I dumb here guys?  Why wouldn't this work?
>
>Tom DeReggi wrote:
>
>> Charles,
>>
>> I fully second your post.
>> Well said.
>>
>> Tom DeReggi
>> RapidDSL & Wireless, Inc
>> IntAirNet- Fixed Wireless Broadband
>>
>>
>> - Original Message - From: "Charles Wu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "'WISPA General List'" 
>> Sent: Monday, December 12, 2005 9:25 PM
>> Subject: RE: [WISPA] INSURANCE NOW canopy prices
>>
>>
>> 
>> You would think it would work that way, but Volume Buying ends up 
eating
>> the organization and the organization becomes caught up in being a
>> volume club.
>> 
>>
>> We all know that there's more to a WISP than just putting up an AP 
and
>> getting a T1 line
>>
>> Having run both a WISP and a distribution company, I can personally 
>> attest
>> to the fact that there's more to distribution (which is what your 
>> proposing)
>> than breaking up a 500 pack amongst WISP
>>
>> Have you considered all the risks / implications that the buying 
group
>> faces? For starters, there's the question of payment -- given that 
the
>> buying group has no / limited credit, chances are that any vendor 
will
>> require cash up front for the purchase
>>
>> So, for example, say Motorola Canopy is the product WISPA chooses
>> Then WISPA / Buying Group needs to come up w/ $100k to purchase that 
500
>> pack (at say, $200 / unit for simplicity's sake)
>> Then, WISPA / Buying Group needs to come up w/ a warehouse to store 
stuff
>> Then, WISPA / Buying Group needs to come up w/ a shipper/logistics 
guy to
>> repackage / ship stuff
>>
>> On top of that, chances are, 50% of the WISPs who committed to 
purchasing
>> the packs will renege and/or delay their deliveries due to unforseen 
>> things
>> that always happen in deployments (e.g.,  lightning, customers don't 
sign
>> on, interference from competitor, DSL coming to town)
>>
>> So now, WISPA / Buying Group needs to hire a sales guy to sell 
excess 
>> units
>>
>> Now, you've added overhead (and you need to add an administrative 
fee /
>> margin to compensate)
>>
>> In the meantime, either
>>
>> 1. Motorola to announce a 50% price reduction in their Canopy line, 
>> and all
>> WISPA members now wanting the new lower price (therefore causing a 
huge
>> loss)
>> 2. Trango (or some other company) to come out w/ the new "flavor of 
the
>> month" and no one wanting the inventory anymore, sticking WISPA w/ 
$100k
>> worth of boat anchors
>>
>> -Charles
>>
>>
>> ---
>> CWLab
>> Technology Architects
>> http://www.cwlab.com
>>
>
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Re: [WISPA] INSURANCE NOW canopy prices

[Ron Wallace]

Go for it Brian, Doesn't matter what others think, if we can save some 
money, good.

Ron Wallace

 Original message 
>Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2005 22:58:47 -0500
>From: Brian Rohrbacher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>  
>Subject: Re: [WISPA] INSURANCE NOW canopy prices  
>To: WISPA General List 
>
>I have never done a group buy, but this is how I would approach it. 
>
>First step.  Principal Members only.  You want a deal, fork over 200 
>some bucks and support the industry.
>Second step.  Find 10 people who want ten units.  (500 if possible, 
but 
>prolly 100 pack to start)
>Third step.  Go to moto website and look up resellers.
>fourth step.  Call resellers and get quote.  Say "look here.  I have a 
>buying group.  I want 100 SMs, charged to 10 credit cards and shipped 
to 
>10 addresses.  Send me a quote to email"  Forward quote to next 
reseller 
>and go from there.  Whoever is cheaper wins.  If they want the 
business 
>of the buying group, they better figure out how to cut a deal.  Am I 
>acting like a know it all Charles?  Would all the resellers say screw 
>you if I approached like this?
>If all resellers say we can't do this.then I would (big trust 
here) 
>run all cards through paypal and pay with one lump sum and re ship 
from 
>here.  Now add the 1.9% for paypal and add more for extra 
>shippingdon't know what that would be, but it would be figured 
>before hand.
>
>I just made all that up, but it seems like it would work.  Only 
question 
>is how warranty is handled.  By MAC addy or by who bought the radio.
>
>Someone let me know if my approach is out of line.  Never done this 
and 
>might be reinventing the wheel (I hope it rolls)
>
>Brian
>
>A. Huppenthal wrote:
>
>> Charles,
>>
>> I know you don't support the idea of group buys. Enough said. Fact 
is 
>> I've done group buys with high-end equipment before - it wasn't 
>> difficult at all. If you are comparing a public distributor to a 
>> closed membership buying club, you aren't comparing apples to 
apples. 
>> I sure as hell don't want to create a distributor organization.
>>
>> However, as our discussion continues, I might be willing to send 
Jim, 
>> George, Brian or whomever offers a group buy $2600 for 10 Canopy SMs 
>> if the buy is 100 units and we're all lined up. I don't need 
support, 
>> training, stocking, any of the services that distributors offer. 
>> Frankly, I don't need my distributor under cutting me to sell direct 
>> to customers. You have your pros and cons for going to distributors 
>> for *everything*. Certainly what's being discussed here isn't 
>> pretending to create a distributor that has *everything*..
>>
>> Frankly I think the board with the exception of myself, uniformly 
>> doesn't support group buys.
>>
>> The buyers create the relatonship for the purpose of the buy, it 
ends 
>> when the product is delivered.
>>
>>
>> Charles Wu wrote:
>>
>>> 
>>> You would think it would work that way, but Volume Buying ends up 
>>> eating the organization and the organization becomes caught up in 
>>> being a volume club.
>>> 
>>>
>>> We all know that there's more to a WISP than just putting up an AP 
and
>>> getting a T1 line
>>>
>>> Having run both a WISP and a distribution company, I can personally 
>>> attest
>>> to the fact that there's more to distribution (which is what your 
>>> proposing)
>>> than breaking up a 500 pack amongst WISP
>>>
>>> Have you considered all the risks / implications that the buying 
group
>>> faces? For starters, there's the question of payment -- given that 
the
>>> buying group has no / limited credit, chances are that any vendor 
will
>>> require cash up front for the purchase
>>>
>>> So, for example, say Motorola Canopy is the product WISPA chooses
>>> Then WISPA / Buying Group needs to come up w/ $100k to purchase 
that 500
>>> pack (at say, $200 / unit for simplicity's sake)
>>> Then, WISPA / Buying Group needs to come up w/ a warehouse to store 
>>> stuff
>>> Then, WISPA / Buying Group needs to come up w/ a shipper/logistics 
>>> guy to
>>> repackage / ship stuff
>>>
>>> On top of that, chances are, 50% of the WISPs who committed to 
>>> purchasing
>>> the packs will renege and/or delay their deliveries due to 
unforseen 
>>> things
>>> that always happen in deployments (e.g.,  lightning, customers 
don

RE: [WISPA] INSURANCE NOW canopy prices

[Ron Wallace]

Now there's an optimistic view, thanks Charles.  But sometimes true,

 Original message 
>Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2005 20:25:36 -0600
>From: "Charles Wu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>  
>Subject: RE: [WISPA] INSURANCE NOW canopy prices  
>To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "'WISPA General List'" 
>
>
>You would think it would work that way, but Volume Buying ends up 
eating 
>the organization and the organization becomes caught up in being a 
>volume club.
>
>
>We all know that there's more to a WISP than just putting up an AP and
>getting a T1 line
>
>Having run both a WISP and a distribution company, I can personally 
attest
>to the fact that there's more to distribution (which is what your 
proposing)
>than breaking up a 500 pack amongst WISP
>
>Have you considered all the risks / implications that the buying group
>faces? For starters, there's the question of payment -- given that the
>buying group has no / limited credit, chances are that any vendor will
>require cash up front for the purchase
>
>So, for example, say Motorola Canopy is the product WISPA chooses
>Then WISPA / Buying Group needs to come up w/ $100k to purchase that 
500
>pack (at say, $200 / unit for simplicity's sake)
>Then, WISPA / Buying Group needs to come up w/ a warehouse to store 
stuff
>Then, WISPA / Buying Group needs to come up w/ a shipper/logistics guy 
to
>repackage / ship stuff
>
>On top of that, chances are, 50% of the WISPs who committed to 
purchasing
>the packs will renege and/or delay their deliveries due to unforseen 
things
>that always happen in deployments (e.g.,  lightning, customers don't 
sign
>on, interference from competitor, DSL coming to town)
>
>So now, WISPA / Buying Group needs to hire a sales guy to sell excess 
units
>
>Now, you've added overhead (and you need to add an administrative fee /
>margin to compensate)
>
>In the meantime, either
>
>1. Motorola to announce a 50% price reduction in their Canopy line, 
and all
>WISPA members now wanting the new lower price (therefore causing a huge
>loss)
>2. Trango (or some other company) to come out w/ the new "flavor of the
>month" and no one wanting the inventory anymore, sticking WISPA w/ 
$100k
>worth of boat anchors
>
>-Charles
>
>
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RE: [WISPA] INSURANCE NOW canopy prices

[Don Renner]

I apologize if this is not appropriate, just trying to help.
We are member of WISPA and helping some WISP's purchase equipment.
Please contact me off list, can give pricing & want to support the WISPA
members.

Don Renner
Helix Technologies, Inc.
8550 W. Main St.
French Lick, IN 47432
812-936-2525office
812-936-2006fax
812-521-1876cell

-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Brian Rohrbacher
Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2005 12:10 AM
To: WISPA General List
Subject: Re: [WISPA] INSURANCE NOW canopy prices

I'll make some calls tomorrow and see what the distributors say.

Travis Johnson wrote:

> Hi,
>
> There are so many risks that _someone_ is going to have to assume. 
> Example: If I say "put me down for 20 units and here's my credit 
> card". You place the order with the distributor, and I get my items. 
> However, either the distributor will put each order in different names 
> (thus, once the boss finds out it will be done), or they all go under 
> a single name. Now, with my credit card being charged, but only a 
> single invoice created for the "big" order, I can contact my credit 
> card company and file a chargeback. There will be no invoice for the 
> purchase, and nothing in my name. I just got 20 radios for free and 
> the distributor just lost big money.
>
> This is only one example. There are 10 other risks to this "project" 
> and someone will have to take them all...
>
> Why not just lease your CPE? Even doing 25 at a time, I think you can 
> get 30 or 60 days before your first payment.
>
> Travis
> Microserv
>
> Brian Rohrbacher wrote:
>
>> Basically what I propose (in a nutshell) is going to a the 
>> distrobuters and saying this.  I have ten or twenty or whatever WISPs 
>> and we all want to buy ten units of *insert brand here* and have them 
>> all shipped to different addresses and charged to different 
>> accounts.  What are you willing to do to accomidate us?   I know 
>> there are a number of distobuters out there.  Ones that do millions 
>> worth of gear all the way down to ones that operate WISPs and became 
>> resellers of the gear they use in order to get their volume up.  If 
>> ten people can install ten a month.  That is 1200 a year.  If we 
>> look, I bet there is a reseller somewhere who wants to increase 
>> volume by 1200 a year.  5k a year wouldn't be stretching the 
>> imagination too far either.
>>
>> Am I dumb here guys?  Why wouldn't this work?
>>
>> Tom DeReggi wrote:
>>
>>> Charles,
>>>
>>> I fully second your post.
>>> Well said.
>>>
>>> Tom DeReggi
>>> RapidDSL & Wireless, Inc
>>> IntAirNet- Fixed Wireless Broadband
>>>
>>>
>>> - Original Message - From: "Charles Wu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "'WISPA General List'" 
>>> Sent: Monday, December 12, 2005 9:25 PM
>>> Subject: RE: [WISPA] INSURANCE NOW canopy prices
>>>
>>>
>>> 
>>> You would think it would work that way, but Volume Buying ends up 
>>> eating
>>> the organization and the organization becomes caught up in being a
>>> volume club.
>>> 
>>>
>>> We all know that there's more to a WISP than just putting up an AP and
>>> getting a T1 line
>>>
>>> Having run both a WISP and a distribution company, I can personally 
>>> attest
>>> to the fact that there's more to distribution (which is what your 
>>> proposing)
>>> than breaking up a 500 pack amongst WISP
>>>
>>> Have you considered all the risks / implications that the buying group
>>> faces? For starters, there's the question of payment -- given that the
>>> buying group has no / limited credit, chances are that any vendor will
>>> require cash up front for the purchase
>>>
>>> So, for example, say Motorola Canopy is the product WISPA chooses
>>> Then WISPA / Buying Group needs to come up w/ $100k to purchase that 
>>> 500
>>> pack (at say, $200 / unit for simplicity's sake)
>>> Then, WISPA / Buying Group needs to come up w/ a warehouse to store 
>>> stuff
>>> Then, WISPA / Buying Group needs to come up w/ a shipper/logistics 
>>> guy to
>>> repackage / ship stuff
>>>
>>> On top of that, chances are, 50% of the WISPs who committed to 
>>> purchasing
>>> the packs will renege and/or delay their deliveries due to unforseen 
>&

Re: [WISPA] INSURANCE NOW canopy prices

[Brian Rohrbacher]

I'll make some calls tomorrow and see what the distributors say.

Travis Johnson wrote:


Hi,

There are so many risks that _someone_ is going to have to assume. 
Example: If I say "put me down for 20 units and here's my credit 
card". You place the order with the distributor, and I get my items. 
However, either the distributor will put each order in different names 
(thus, once the boss finds out it will be done), or they all go under 
a single name. Now, with my credit card being charged, but only a 
single invoice created for the "big" order, I can contact my credit 
card company and file a chargeback. There will be no invoice for the 
purchase, and nothing in my name. I just got 20 radios for free and 
the distributor just lost big money.


This is only one example. There are 10 other risks to this "project" 
and someone will have to take them all...


Why not just lease your CPE? Even doing 25 at a time, I think you can 
get 30 or 60 days before your first payment.


Travis
Microserv

Brian Rohrbacher wrote:

Basically what I propose (in a nutshell) is going to a the 
distrobuters and saying this.  I have ten or twenty or whatever WISPs 
and we all want to buy ten units of *insert brand here* and have them 
all shipped to different addresses and charged to different 
accounts.  What are you willing to do to accomidate us?   I know 
there are a number of distobuters out there.  Ones that do millions 
worth of gear all the way down to ones that operate WISPs and became 
resellers of the gear they use in order to get their volume up.  If 
ten people can install ten a month.  That is 1200 a year.  If we 
look, I bet there is a reseller somewhere who wants to increase 
volume by 1200 a year.  5k a year wouldn't be stretching the 
imagination too far either.


Am I dumb here guys?  Why wouldn't this work?

Tom DeReggi wrote:


Charles,

I fully second your post.
Well said.

Tom DeReggi
RapidDSL & Wireless, Inc
IntAirNet- Fixed Wireless Broadband


- Original Message - From: "Charles Wu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "'WISPA General List'" 
Sent: Monday, December 12, 2005 9:25 PM
Subject: RE: [WISPA] INSURANCE NOW canopy prices



You would think it would work that way, but Volume Buying ends up 
eating

the organization and the organization becomes caught up in being a
volume club.


We all know that there's more to a WISP than just putting up an AP and
getting a T1 line

Having run both a WISP and a distribution company, I can personally 
attest
to the fact that there's more to distribution (which is what your 
proposing)

than breaking up a 500 pack amongst WISP

Have you considered all the risks / implications that the buying group
faces? For starters, there's the question of payment -- given that the
buying group has no / limited credit, chances are that any vendor will
require cash up front for the purchase

So, for example, say Motorola Canopy is the product WISPA chooses
Then WISPA / Buying Group needs to come up w/ $100k to purchase that 
500

pack (at say, $200 / unit for simplicity's sake)
Then, WISPA / Buying Group needs to come up w/ a warehouse to store 
stuff
Then, WISPA / Buying Group needs to come up w/ a shipper/logistics 
guy to

repackage / ship stuff

On top of that, chances are, 50% of the WISPs who committed to 
purchasing
the packs will renege and/or delay their deliveries due to unforseen 
things
that always happen in deployments (e.g.,  lightning, customers don't 
sign

on, interference from competitor, DSL coming to town)

So now, WISPA / Buying Group needs to hire a sales guy to sell 
excess units


Now, you've added overhead (and you need to add an administrative fee /
margin to compensate)

In the meantime, either

1. Motorola to announce a 50% price reduction in their Canopy line, 
and all

WISPA members now wanting the new lower price (therefore causing a huge
loss)
2. Trango (or some other company) to come out w/ the new "flavor of the
month" and no one wanting the inventory anymore, sticking WISPA w/ 
$100k

worth of boat anchors

-Charles


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Re: [WISPA] INSURANCE NOW canopy prices

[Travis Johnson]

Hi,

There are so many risks that _someone_ is going to have to assume. 
Example: If I say "put me down for 20 units and here's my credit card". 
You place the order with the distributor, and I get my items. However, 
either the distributor will put each order in different names (thus, 
once the boss finds out it will be done), or they all go under a single 
name. Now, with my credit card being charged, but only a single invoice 
created for the "big" order, I can contact my credit card company and 
file a chargeback. There will be no invoice for the purchase, and 
nothing in my name. I just got 20 radios for free and the distributor 
just lost big money.


This is only one example. There are 10 other risks to this "project" and 
someone will have to take them all...


Why not just lease your CPE? Even doing 25 at a time, I think you can 
get 30 or 60 days before your first payment.


Travis
Microserv

Brian Rohrbacher wrote:

Basically what I propose (in a nutshell) is going to a the 
distrobuters and saying this.  I have ten or twenty or whatever WISPs 
and we all want to buy ten units of *insert brand here* and have them 
all shipped to different addresses and charged to different accounts.  
What are you willing to do to accomidate us?   I know there are a 
number of distobuters out there.  Ones that do millions worth of gear 
all the way down to ones that operate WISPs and became resellers of 
the gear they use in order to get their volume up.  If ten people can 
install ten a month.  That is 1200 a year.  If we look, I bet there is 
a reseller somewhere who wants to increase volume by 1200 a year.  5k 
a year wouldn't be stretching the imagination too far either.


Am I dumb here guys?  Why wouldn't this work?

Tom DeReggi wrote:


Charles,

I fully second your post.
Well said.

Tom DeReggi
RapidDSL & Wireless, Inc
IntAirNet- Fixed Wireless Broadband


- Original Message - From: "Charles Wu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "'WISPA General List'" 
Sent: Monday, December 12, 2005 9:25 PM
Subject: RE: [WISPA] INSURANCE NOW canopy prices



You would think it would work that way, but Volume Buying ends up eating
the organization and the organization becomes caught up in being a
volume club.


We all know that there's more to a WISP than just putting up an AP and
getting a T1 line

Having run both a WISP and a distribution company, I can personally 
attest
to the fact that there's more to distribution (which is what your 
proposing)

than breaking up a 500 pack amongst WISP

Have you considered all the risks / implications that the buying group
faces? For starters, there's the question of payment -- given that the
buying group has no / limited credit, chances are that any vendor will
require cash up front for the purchase

So, for example, say Motorola Canopy is the product WISPA chooses
Then WISPA / Buying Group needs to come up w/ $100k to purchase that 500
pack (at say, $200 / unit for simplicity's sake)
Then, WISPA / Buying Group needs to come up w/ a warehouse to store 
stuff
Then, WISPA / Buying Group needs to come up w/ a shipper/logistics 
guy to

repackage / ship stuff

On top of that, chances are, 50% of the WISPs who committed to 
purchasing
the packs will renege and/or delay their deliveries due to unforseen 
things
that always happen in deployments (e.g.,  lightning, customers don't 
sign

on, interference from competitor, DSL coming to town)

So now, WISPA / Buying Group needs to hire a sales guy to sell excess 
units


Now, you've added overhead (and you need to add an administrative fee /
margin to compensate)

In the meantime, either

1. Motorola to announce a 50% price reduction in their Canopy line, 
and all

WISPA members now wanting the new lower price (therefore causing a huge
loss)
2. Trango (or some other company) to come out w/ the new "flavor of the
month" and no one wanting the inventory anymore, sticking WISPA w/ $100k
worth of boat anchors

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Re: [WISPA] INSURANCE NOW canopy prices

[Brian Rohrbacher]

Basically what I propose (in a nutshell) is going to a the distrobuters 
and saying this.  I have ten or twenty or whatever WISPs and we all want 
to buy ten units of *insert brand here* and have them all shipped to 
different addresses and charged to different accounts.  What are you 
willing to do to accomidate us?   I know there are a number of 
distobuters out there.  Ones that do millions worth of gear all the way 
down to ones that operate WISPs and became resellers of the gear they 
use in order to get their volume up.  If ten people can install ten a 
month.  That is 1200 a year.  If we look, I bet there is a reseller 
somewhere who wants to increase volume by 1200 a year.  5k a year 
wouldn't be stretching the imagination too far either.


Am I dumb here guys?  Why wouldn't this work?

Tom DeReggi wrote:


Charles,

I fully second your post.
Well said.

Tom DeReggi
RapidDSL & Wireless, Inc
IntAirNet- Fixed Wireless Broadband


- Original Message - From: "Charles Wu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Monday, December 12, 2005 9:25 PM
Subject: RE: [WISPA] INSURANCE NOW canopy prices



You would think it would work that way, but Volume Buying ends up eating
the organization and the organization becomes caught up in being a
volume club.


We all know that there's more to a WISP than just putting up an AP and
getting a T1 line

Having run both a WISP and a distribution company, I can personally 
attest
to the fact that there's more to distribution (which is what your 
proposing)

than breaking up a 500 pack amongst WISP

Have you considered all the risks / implications that the buying group
faces? For starters, there's the question of payment -- given that the
buying group has no / limited credit, chances are that any vendor will
require cash up front for the purchase

So, for example, say Motorola Canopy is the product WISPA chooses
Then WISPA / Buying Group needs to come up w/ $100k to purchase that 500
pack (at say, $200 / unit for simplicity's sake)
Then, WISPA / Buying Group needs to come up w/ a warehouse to store stuff
Then, WISPA / Buying Group needs to come up w/ a shipper/logistics guy to
repackage / ship stuff

On top of that, chances are, 50% of the WISPs who committed to purchasing
the packs will renege and/or delay their deliveries due to unforseen 
things

that always happen in deployments (e.g.,  lightning, customers don't sign
on, interference from competitor, DSL coming to town)

So now, WISPA / Buying Group needs to hire a sales guy to sell excess 
units


Now, you've added overhead (and you need to add an administrative fee /
margin to compensate)

In the meantime, either

1. Motorola to announce a 50% price reduction in their Canopy line, 
and all

WISPA members now wanting the new lower price (therefore causing a huge
loss)
2. Trango (or some other company) to come out w/ the new "flavor of the
month" and no one wanting the inventory anymore, sticking WISPA w/ $100k
worth of boat anchors

-Charles


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Re: [WISPA] INSURANCE NOW canopy prices

[Tom DeReggi]

Charles,

I fully second your post.
Well said.

Tom DeReggi
RapidDSL & Wireless, Inc
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Sent: Monday, December 12, 2005 9:25 PM
Subject: RE: [WISPA] INSURANCE NOW canopy prices



You would think it would work that way, but Volume Buying ends up eating
the organization and the organization becomes caught up in being a
volume club.


We all know that there's more to a WISP than just putting up an AP and
getting a T1 line

Having run both a WISP and a distribution company, I can personally attest
to the fact that there's more to distribution (which is what your proposing)
than breaking up a 500 pack amongst WISP

Have you considered all the risks / implications that the buying group
faces? For starters, there's the question of payment -- given that the
buying group has no / limited credit, chances are that any vendor will
require cash up front for the purchase

So, for example, say Motorola Canopy is the product WISPA chooses
Then WISPA / Buying Group needs to come up w/ $100k to purchase that 500
pack (at say, $200 / unit for simplicity's sake)
Then, WISPA / Buying Group needs to come up w/ a warehouse to store stuff
Then, WISPA / Buying Group needs to come up w/ a shipper/logistics guy to
repackage / ship stuff

On top of that, chances are, 50% of the WISPs who committed to purchasing
the packs will renege and/or delay their deliveries due to unforseen things
that always happen in deployments (e.g.,  lightning, customers don't sign
on, interference from competitor, DSL coming to town)

So now, WISPA / Buying Group needs to hire a sales guy to sell excess units

Now, you've added overhead (and you need to add an administrative fee /
margin to compensate)

In the meantime, either

1. Motorola to announce a 50% price reduction in their Canopy line, and all
WISPA members now wanting the new lower price (therefore causing a huge
loss)
2. Trango (or some other company) to come out w/ the new "flavor of the
month" and no one wanting the inventory anymore, sticking WISPA w/ $100k
worth of boat anchors

-Charles


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Re: [WISPA] INSURANCE NOW canopy prices

[Travis Johnson]

Also, how much of a "real" savings are you going to see buying a 500 
pack compared with a 100 pack? I'm not sure how the pricing structure 
works with Moto, but with other places the biggest savings is from 10/20 
packs to 100 or 250 packs. Going from 100 to 500 yields very minimal 
changes ($10 per SM/SU would be my guess).


Travis
Microserv

Brian Rohrbacher wrote:

Well, I'm not a Canopy user, but am close to making the leap.  (would 
have done it long time ago if gear was a reasonable price)


Whoever buys the gear.  Group name or Joe Blow.
Attention Canopy users how are warranty issues handled?  If I buy gear 
on ebay can I send it into Moto for warranty?  Or is it void because I 
didn't buy from authorized reseller?


Brian

Travis Johnson wrote:

And, the other issue is the purchase will be made in the "group" 
name, so how do you handle warranty issues?


Travis
Microserv

Charles Wu wrote:



You would think it would work that way, but Volume Buying ends up 
eating the organization and the organization becomes caught up in 
being a volume club.



We all know that there's more to a WISP than just putting up an AP and
getting a T1 line

Having run both a WISP and a distribution company, I can personally 
attest
to the fact that there's more to distribution (which is what your 
proposing)

than breaking up a 500 pack amongst WISP

Have you considered all the risks / implications that the buying group
faces? For starters, there's the question of payment -- given that the
buying group has no / limited credit, chances are that any vendor will
require cash up front for the purchase

So, for example, say Motorola Canopy is the product WISPA chooses
Then WISPA / Buying Group needs to come up w/ $100k to purchase that 
500

pack (at say, $200 / unit for simplicity's sake)
Then, WISPA / Buying Group needs to come up w/ a warehouse to store 
stuff
Then, WISPA / Buying Group needs to come up w/ a shipper/logistics 
guy to

repackage / ship stuff

On top of that, chances are, 50% of the WISPs who committed to 
purchasing
the packs will renege and/or delay their deliveries due to unforseen 
things
that always happen in deployments (e.g.,  lightning, customers don't 
sign

on, interference from competitor, DSL coming to town)

So now, WISPA / Buying Group needs to hire a sales guy to sell 
excess units


Now, you've added overhead (and you need to add an administrative fee /
margin to compensate)

In the meantime, either

1. Motorola to announce a 50% price reduction in their Canopy line, 
and all

WISPA members now wanting the new lower price (therefore causing a huge
loss)
2. Trango (or some other company) to come out w/ the new "flavor of the
month" and no one wanting the inventory anymore, sticking WISPA w/ 
$100k

worth of boat anchors

-Charles


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Re: [WISPA] INSURANCE NOW canopy prices

[Brian Rohrbacher]

Well, I'm not a Canopy user, but am close to making the leap.  (would 
have done it long time ago if gear was a reasonable price)


Whoever buys the gear.  Group name or Joe Blow. 

Attention Canopy users how are warranty issues handled?  If I buy gear 
on ebay can I send it into Moto for warranty?  Or is it void because I 
didn't buy from authorized reseller?


Brian

Travis Johnson wrote:

And, the other issue is the purchase will be made in the "group" name, 
so how do you handle warranty issues?


Travis
Microserv

Charles Wu wrote:



You would think it would work that way, but Volume Buying ends up 
eating the organization and the organization becomes caught up in 
being a volume club.



We all know that there's more to a WISP than just putting up an AP and
getting a T1 line

Having run both a WISP and a distribution company, I can personally 
attest
to the fact that there's more to distribution (which is what your 
proposing)

than breaking up a 500 pack amongst WISP

Have you considered all the risks / implications that the buying group
faces? For starters, there's the question of payment -- given that the
buying group has no / limited credit, chances are that any vendor will
require cash up front for the purchase

So, for example, say Motorola Canopy is the product WISPA chooses
Then WISPA / Buying Group needs to come up w/ $100k to purchase that 500
pack (at say, $200 / unit for simplicity's sake)
Then, WISPA / Buying Group needs to come up w/ a warehouse to store 
stuff
Then, WISPA / Buying Group needs to come up w/ a shipper/logistics 
guy to

repackage / ship stuff

On top of that, chances are, 50% of the WISPs who committed to 
purchasing
the packs will renege and/or delay their deliveries due to unforseen 
things
that always happen in deployments (e.g.,  lightning, customers don't 
sign

on, interference from competitor, DSL coming to town)

So now, WISPA / Buying Group needs to hire a sales guy to sell excess 
units


Now, you've added overhead (and you need to add an administrative fee /
margin to compensate)

In the meantime, either

1. Motorola to announce a 50% price reduction in their Canopy line, 
and all

WISPA members now wanting the new lower price (therefore causing a huge
loss)
2. Trango (or some other company) to come out w/ the new "flavor of the
month" and no one wanting the inventory anymore, sticking WISPA w/ $100k
worth of boat anchors

-Charles


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Re: [WISPA] INSURANCE NOW canopy prices

[Brian Rohrbacher]

I have never done a group buy, but this is how I would approach it. 

First step.  Principal Members only.  You want a deal, fork over 200 
some bucks and support the industry.
Second step.  Find 10 people who want ten units.  (500 if possible, but 
prolly 100 pack to start)

Third step.  Go to moto website and look up resellers.
fourth step.  Call resellers and get quote.  Say "look here.  I have a 
buying group.  I want 100 SMs, charged to 10 credit cards and shipped to 
10 addresses.  Send me a quote to email"  Forward quote to next reseller 
and go from there.  Whoever is cheaper wins.  If they want the business 
of the buying group, they better figure out how to cut a deal.  Am I 
acting like a know it all Charles?  Would all the resellers say screw 
you if I approached like this?
If all resellers say we can't do this.then I would (big trust here) 
run all cards through paypal and pay with one lump sum and re ship from 
here.  Now add the 1.9% for paypal and add more for extra 
shippingdon't know what that would be, but it would be figured 
before hand.


I just made all that up, but it seems like it would work.  Only question 
is how warranty is handled.  By MAC addy or by who bought the radio.


Someone let me know if my approach is out of line.  Never done this and 
might be reinventing the wheel (I hope it rolls)


Brian

A. Huppenthal wrote:


Charles,

I know you don't support the idea of group buys. Enough said. Fact is 
I've done group buys with high-end equipment before - it wasn't 
difficult at all. If you are comparing a public distributor to a 
closed membership buying club, you aren't comparing apples to apples. 
I sure as hell don't want to create a distributor organization.


However, as our discussion continues, I might be willing to send Jim, 
George, Brian or whomever offers a group buy $2600 for 10 Canopy SMs 
if the buy is 100 units and we're all lined up. I don't need support, 
training, stocking, any of the services that distributors offer. 
Frankly, I don't need my distributor under cutting me to sell direct 
to customers. You have your pros and cons for going to distributors 
for *everything*. Certainly what's being discussed here isn't 
pretending to create a distributor that has *everything*..


Frankly I think the board with the exception of myself, uniformly 
doesn't support group buys.


The buyers create the relatonship for the purpose of the buy, it ends 
when the product is delivered.



Charles Wu wrote:



You would think it would work that way, but Volume Buying ends up 
eating the organization and the organization becomes caught up in 
being a volume club.



We all know that there's more to a WISP than just putting up an AP and
getting a T1 line

Having run both a WISP and a distribution company, I can personally 
attest
to the fact that there's more to distribution (which is what your 
proposing)

than breaking up a 500 pack amongst WISP

Have you considered all the risks / implications that the buying group
faces? For starters, there's the question of payment -- given that the
buying group has no / limited credit, chances are that any vendor will
require cash up front for the purchase

So, for example, say Motorola Canopy is the product WISPA chooses
Then WISPA / Buying Group needs to come up w/ $100k to purchase that 500
pack (at say, $200 / unit for simplicity's sake)
Then, WISPA / Buying Group needs to come up w/ a warehouse to store 
stuff
Then, WISPA / Buying Group needs to come up w/ a shipper/logistics 
guy to

repackage / ship stuff

On top of that, chances are, 50% of the WISPs who committed to 
purchasing
the packs will renege and/or delay their deliveries due to unforseen 
things
that always happen in deployments (e.g.,  lightning, customers don't 
sign

on, interference from competitor, DSL coming to town)

So now, WISPA / Buying Group needs to hire a sales guy to sell excess 
units


Now, you've added overhead (and you need to add an administrative fee /
margin to compensate)

In the meantime, either

1. Motorola to announce a 50% price reduction in their Canopy line, 
and all

WISPA members now wanting the new lower price (therefore causing a huge
loss)
2. Trango (or some other company) to come out w/ the new "flavor of the
month" and no one wanting the inventory anymore, sticking WISPA w/ $100k
worth of boat anchors

-Charles


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Re: [WISPA] INSURANCE NOW canopy prices

[Travis Johnson]

And, the other issue is the purchase will be made in the "group" name, 
so how do you handle warranty issues?


Travis
Microserv

Charles Wu wrote:



You would think it would work that way, but Volume Buying ends up eating 
the organization and the organization becomes caught up in being a 
volume club.



We all know that there's more to a WISP than just putting up an AP and
getting a T1 line

Having run both a WISP and a distribution company, I can personally attest
to the fact that there's more to distribution (which is what your proposing)
than breaking up a 500 pack amongst WISP

Have you considered all the risks / implications that the buying group
faces? For starters, there's the question of payment -- given that the
buying group has no / limited credit, chances are that any vendor will
require cash up front for the purchase

So, for example, say Motorola Canopy is the product WISPA chooses
Then WISPA / Buying Group needs to come up w/ $100k to purchase that 500
pack (at say, $200 / unit for simplicity's sake)
Then, WISPA / Buying Group needs to come up w/ a warehouse to store stuff
Then, WISPA / Buying Group needs to come up w/ a shipper/logistics guy to
repackage / ship stuff

On top of that, chances are, 50% of the WISPs who committed to purchasing
the packs will renege and/or delay their deliveries due to unforseen things
that always happen in deployments (e.g.,  lightning, customers don't sign
on, interference from competitor, DSL coming to town)

So now, WISPA / Buying Group needs to hire a sales guy to sell excess units

Now, you've added overhead (and you need to add an administrative fee /
margin to compensate)

In the meantime, either

1. Motorola to announce a 50% price reduction in their Canopy line, and all
WISPA members now wanting the new lower price (therefore causing a huge
loss)
2. Trango (or some other company) to come out w/ the new "flavor of the
month" and no one wanting the inventory anymore, sticking WISPA w/ $100k
worth of boat anchors

-Charles


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RE: [WISPA] INSURANCE NOW canopy prices

[G.Villarini]

Hey Charles ... long time no see ... any winog on 2006 ?

Gino A. Villarini, 
Aeronet Wireless Broadband Corp.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
www.aeronetpr.com
787.767.7466

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Subject: RE: [WISPA] INSURANCE NOW canopy prices


You would think it would work that way, but Volume Buying ends up eating 
the organization and the organization becomes caught up in being a 
volume club.


We all know that there's more to a WISP than just putting up an AP and
getting a T1 line

Having run both a WISP and a distribution company, I can personally attest
to the fact that there's more to distribution (which is what your proposing)
than breaking up a 500 pack amongst WISP

Have you considered all the risks / implications that the buying group
faces? For starters, there's the question of payment -- given that the
buying group has no / limited credit, chances are that any vendor will
require cash up front for the purchase

So, for example, say Motorola Canopy is the product WISPA chooses
Then WISPA / Buying Group needs to come up w/ $100k to purchase that 500
pack (at say, $200 / unit for simplicity's sake)
Then, WISPA / Buying Group needs to come up w/ a warehouse to store stuff
Then, WISPA / Buying Group needs to come up w/ a shipper/logistics guy to
repackage / ship stuff

On top of that, chances are, 50% of the WISPs who committed to purchasing
the packs will renege and/or delay their deliveries due to unforseen things
that always happen in deployments (e.g.,  lightning, customers don't sign
on, interference from competitor, DSL coming to town)

So now, WISPA / Buying Group needs to hire a sales guy to sell excess units

Now, you've added overhead (and you need to add an administrative fee /
margin to compensate)

In the meantime, either

1. Motorola to announce a 50% price reduction in their Canopy line, and all
WISPA members now wanting the new lower price (therefore causing a huge
loss)
2. Trango (or some other company) to come out w/ the new "flavor of the
month" and no one wanting the inventory anymore, sticking WISPA w/ $100k
worth of boat anchors

-Charles


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Re: [WISPA] INSURANCE NOW canopy prices

[A. Huppenthal]

Charles,

I know you don't support the idea of group buys. Enough said. Fact is 
I've done group buys with high-end equipment before - it wasn't 
difficult at all. If you are comparing a public distributor to a closed 
membership buying club, you aren't comparing apples to apples. I sure as 
hell don't want to create a distributor organization.


However, as our discussion continues, I might be willing to send Jim, 
George, Brian or whomever offers a group buy $2600 for 10 Canopy SMs if 
the buy is 100 units and we're all lined up. I don't need support, 
training, stocking, any of the services that distributors offer. 
Frankly, I don't need my distributor under cutting me to sell direct to 
customers. You have your pros and cons for going to distributors for 
*everything*. Certainly what's being discussed here isn't pretending to 
create a distributor that has *everything*..


Frankly I think the board with the exception of myself, uniformly 
doesn't support group buys.


The buyers create the relatonship for the purpose of the buy, it ends 
when the product is delivered.



Charles Wu wrote:



You would think it would work that way, but Volume Buying ends up eating 
the organization and the organization becomes caught up in being a 
volume club.



We all know that there's more to a WISP than just putting up an AP and
getting a T1 line

Having run both a WISP and a distribution company, I can personally attest
to the fact that there's more to distribution (which is what your proposing)
than breaking up a 500 pack amongst WISP

Have you considered all the risks / implications that the buying group
faces? For starters, there's the question of payment -- given that the
buying group has no / limited credit, chances are that any vendor will
require cash up front for the purchase

So, for example, say Motorola Canopy is the product WISPA chooses
Then WISPA / Buying Group needs to come up w/ $100k to purchase that 500
pack (at say, $200 / unit for simplicity's sake)
Then, WISPA / Buying Group needs to come up w/ a warehouse to store stuff
Then, WISPA / Buying Group needs to come up w/ a shipper/logistics guy to
repackage / ship stuff

On top of that, chances are, 50% of the WISPs who committed to purchasing
the packs will renege and/or delay their deliveries due to unforseen things
that always happen in deployments (e.g.,  lightning, customers don't sign
on, interference from competitor, DSL coming to town)

So now, WISPA / Buying Group needs to hire a sales guy to sell excess units

Now, you've added overhead (and you need to add an administrative fee /
margin to compensate)

In the meantime, either

1. Motorola to announce a 50% price reduction in their Canopy line, and all
WISPA members now wanting the new lower price (therefore causing a huge
loss)
2. Trango (or some other company) to come out w/ the new "flavor of the
month" and no one wanting the inventory anymore, sticking WISPA w/ $100k
worth of boat anchors

-Charles


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[Charles Wu]

You would think it would work that way, but Volume Buying ends up eating 
the organization and the organization becomes caught up in being a 
volume club.


We all know that there's more to a WISP than just putting up an AP and
getting a T1 line

Having run both a WISP and a distribution company, I can personally attest
to the fact that there's more to distribution (which is what your proposing)
than breaking up a 500 pack amongst WISP

Have you considered all the risks / implications that the buying group
faces? For starters, there's the question of payment -- given that the
buying group has no / limited credit, chances are that any vendor will
require cash up front for the purchase

So, for example, say Motorola Canopy is the product WISPA chooses
Then WISPA / Buying Group needs to come up w/ $100k to purchase that 500
pack (at say, $200 / unit for simplicity's sake)
Then, WISPA / Buying Group needs to come up w/ a warehouse to store stuff
Then, WISPA / Buying Group needs to come up w/ a shipper/logistics guy to
repackage / ship stuff

On top of that, chances are, 50% of the WISPs who committed to purchasing
the packs will renege and/or delay their deliveries due to unforseen things
that always happen in deployments (e.g.,  lightning, customers don't sign
on, interference from competitor, DSL coming to town)

So now, WISPA / Buying Group needs to hire a sales guy to sell excess units

Now, you've added overhead (and you need to add an administrative fee /
margin to compensate)

In the meantime, either

1. Motorola to announce a 50% price reduction in their Canopy line, and all
WISPA members now wanting the new lower price (therefore causing a huge
loss)
2. Trango (or some other company) to come out w/ the new "flavor of the
month" and no one wanting the inventory anymore, sticking WISPA w/ $100k
worth of boat anchors

-Charles


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