Mike -

Agreed, however, If I see no prices, this is a HUGE turnoff for me. Many
times much more then simply a high price. I have a set cost/benefit ratio or
simply a set cost in mind already (for example). Having to e-mail some sales
rep that gets back to me 3 days later with stupid questions, just to have to
send 4 e-mails back/forth to get a price sure as hell, 1) Isn't going to
make me happy, 2) change my already set cost/ratios. If it's $600 on the
site and I don't want it, at least I respect the company for giving me the
info I need NOW. If 5 e-mails later it's $600, that's not going to change
the fact that I still don't want to pay $600, and now I'm annoyed that took
20 minutes of my life to find out.

-J

(I live in the US btw)


On 7/9/07, Jewell, Michael <mjewell at law dot umaryland dot edu> wrote:
>
> Also,  it won't scare people away from the web site as fast if they show
> no price as opposed to a high price...  I know when I go somewhere and I
> see a high price,  I just leave :)
>
> -Mike
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: krt [mailto:kkrrtt at gmail dot com]
> Sent: Monday, July 09, 2007 1:38 PM
> To: Jimmy Bones (Mhottie)
> Cc: Monowall Support List
> Subject: Re: [m0n0wall] new WRAP board yet?
>
> "Price Secrecy", especially with small businesses, usually stems from
> how purchases are made.
>
> They don't usually keep things in stock, or if they do, it's in small
> batches.  Your purchase either applies to existing stock or future, but
> in either way you're likely going to be paying the retailer this:
>
> Cost of unit on day of sale (replace stock or acquire), + fees for
> running the business that was able to provide you with the right means
> to make the sale, plus whatever profit is there, if any is left +
> shipping/handling.
>
> This is very true on very small unit sales (what you see with specialty
> items such as the machines we all like to run m0n0wall on).
>
> Basically, it saves everyone a little money to do it this way.  The
> vendor that has stock sitting around for months at a time is going to
> have to charge you more for that same router or make less profit than
> the vendor that can acquire and deliver dynamically as need arises.
>
> If tech prices for gear stayed the same in addition to the economies
> that we all play in, none of this would matter.  Gear drops in price
> fast though, hence the "just in time" business philosophy winning out by
>
> providing a lower cost supply chain and therefore product.
>
> Then again, they could just be trying to bilk ya for all ya got ;-).
>
>
>
>
>
> Jimmy Bones (Mhottie) wrote:
> > Ok, what's with all the price secrecy here? Does anyone have the price
> for
> > these?
> >
> > -j
> >
> > On 7/9/07, Jakob Strebel <jakob at teamstrebel dot ch> wrote:
> >>
> >> Sergei,
> >>
> >> >
> >> > Have anybody checked LEX boards?
> >> >
> >> > http://www.lex.com.tw
> >> >
> >> > I have ordered one CV860A in fanless Light case, waiting for
> delivery.
> >> > They confirmed FreeBSD compatibility, and up to 800 MHz could be
> >> used in
> >> > fanless cases (if you will not order 1GBit LAN, but use 10/100
> >> instead).
> >>
> >> 1.231 is running on it! Take the generic image
> >> jakob
> >>
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