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Re: Calling all NANOG'ers - idea for national hardware price quote registry
From: Warren Kumari <Warren () kumari net>
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 14:53:44 -0700
On Sep 16, 2005, at 2:12 PM, Matt Bazan wrote:
-----Original Message----- From: owner-nanog () merit edu [mailto:owner-nanog () merit edu] On Behalf Of Sean FigginsYes, it would be great, however it won't work.Couple points. This is true typically in only the largest enterprisequotes. For the vast majority of medium and small business quotes NDAsare rarely used. And hey, if they are , that's why the process is anonymous ;-) Besides, in today's crap economy, is a vendor reallygoing to come down on a client for violating an NDA and throw away $ $$$? I personally don't have experience with this but I'm willing to bet thatmost NDAs are more bark than bite.
You might want to be careful there... A friend of mine moved from Company A to Company B and told his new employer what discount he had been getting from Vendor C (suggesting that new employer could get a better discount) . Vendor C promptly sued him for breach of NDA. AFAIR, the case was settled, but Company B had some fairly high legal bills...
The range of discounts that different customers get is quite surprising and often seems to change mainly upon negotiation skills and not necessarily amount of equipment purchased.
Warren. -- With Feudalism, it's your Count that votes.
Current thread:
- Re: Calling all NANOG'ers - idea for national hardware price quote registry, (continued)
- Re: Calling all NANOG'ers - idea for national hardware price quote registry Valdis . Kletnieks (Sep 16)
- Re: Calling all NANOG'ers - idea for national hardware price quote registry Sean Figgins (Sep 16)
- Re: Calling all NANOG'ers - idea for national hardware price quote registry Matt Ghali (Sep 16)
- Re: Calling all NANOG'ers - idea for national hardware price quote registry Sean Figgins (Sep 16)
- Re: Calling all NANOG'ers - idea for national hardware price quote registry Mike Hughes (Sep 17)
- Re: Calling all NANOG'ers - idea for national hardware price quote registry JP Velders (Sep 17)
- RE: Calling all NANOG'ers - idea for national hardware price quote registry David Hubbard (Sep 16)
- Re: Calling all NANOG'ers - idea for national hardware price quote registry Valdis . Kletnieks (Sep 16)
- RE: Calling all NANOG'ers - idea for national hardware price quote registry Matt Bazan (Sep 16)
- RE: Calling all NANOG'ers - idea for national hardware price quote registry Sean Figgins (Sep 16)
- Re: Calling all NANOG'ers - idea for national hardware price quote registry Warren Kumari (Sep 16)
- RE: Calling all NANOG'ers - idea for national hardware price quote registry Dave Hilton (Sep 16)
- RE: Calling all NANOG'ers - idea for national hardware price quote registry Matt Bazan (Sep 16)
- Re: Calling all NANOG'ers - idea for national hardware price quote registry Richard A Steenbergen (Sep 16)
- Re: Calling all NANOG'ers - idea for national hardware price quote registry David Ulevitch (Sep 16)
- Re: Calling all NANOG'ers - idea for national hardware price quote registry Valdis . Kletnieks (Sep 16)
- RE: Calling all NANOG'ers - idea for national hardware price quote registry Matt Bazan (Sep 16)
- Re: Calling all NANOG'ers - idea for national hardware price quote registry Charles Gucker (Sep 16)
- RE: Calling all NANOG'ers - idea for national hardware price quote registry Matt Ghali (Sep 16)
- RE: Calling all NANOG'ers - idea for national hardware price quote registry Matt Bazan (Sep 16)
- Re: Calling all NANOG'ers - idea for national hardware price quote registry Warren Kumari (Sep 16)
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