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Calling all NANOG'ers - idea for national hardware price quote registry
From: "Matt Bazan" <Mbazan () onelegal com>
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 13:23:29 -0700
I don't know about you, but how many times have you wanted to know the price of hardware vendor a, vendor b and vendor c's product offering only to find out that you have to contact one of their sales reps, give them all your contact & company info (I'm sure you know the drill) listen to a sales spiel (or two, or three) maybe a webinar, or conference call or..etc. before finally getting a quote some time later? Only to then be bothered by endless follow up sales calls? Wouldn't it be great if there was an online, updated daily, website that listed real quotes oraganized by region in the country and company size? That way, if you wanted to, say, know that latest prices for 2TB fibre channel SAN enclosures from company A and company B you pull up the site and boom, you have a nice fairly accurate idea of what you'll pay for a company of your size and location? I think so. Here's what I propose. I will design and host a web site to organize just such info. What I will need from all of you out there is your real time quotes (anonymously submitted is just fine, black out all the relevant personal/company info) and just include some general info on location (state for instance) and rough size of company. I'll take care of the rest. Comments? Matt
Current thread:
- 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 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)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- 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)
(Thread continues...)