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In article <GRUNWALD.94Jun26114949@kilt.cs.colorado.edu>,
Dirk Grunwald <grunwald@foobar.cs.colorado.edu> wrote:

>In article <2uk80dINNlo4@umbc8.umbc.edu> rdavis4@umbc.edu (davis robert) 
>writes:

>> What computer companies need to do is just print out lots of
>> catalogues and technically useful advertising literature, that

>This works if you know exactly what you want, but e.g., a small
>buisness setting up a transaction processing system may not know
>enough to order specific systems. That's where a techincal sales
>group is helpful.

Well, then let such companies hire a consultant or an employee who
does know about such things.

>> By the way, another thing that should be done away with, and the
>> sooner the better: the so-called "value added resellers".  The

>I disagree completely. In a recent bit on a package that DEC lists for
>$125,000, the local VAR bid was significantly lower than the
>University discount --- enough lower that I could buy a larger, more
>featureful system.

Here's what you need to remember: "value added resellers" are in
business to make a profit.  Just where do you think that profit comes
from?  It comes from the sucker, I mean customer, that buys computer
equipment through them.  They don't save you money, they take money
from you... actually, fleecing you is more like it.  The only place
where value added is the money they add to their pockets that they
take out of yours.

If computer companies sold equipment directly to customers for the
same price that they sold it to those con-artist middlemen, who
disguise themselves using the marketroidish term "value added
reseller", for, just think of how much money people and companies
could save!

Another annoying thing about "value added resellers".  They don't like
to deal with individuals... if you don't have a company name to give
them, they sneer at you and give you the brush off.  They call
themselves "computer professionals", thinking that they can hide what
kind of professionals they really are... however, they can't.  Many
people can see right through this thinly veiled disguise and do see
what kind of professionalls they really are: "professional idiots".

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