Re: Vendors that suck

In article <gdbuq5$2f74$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Steve VanDevender <stevev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

From a customer's point of view, all I ever seem to experience are Value
Subtracting Resellers.

Sometimes I have to wonder. When I buy stuff from $WeHaveABridgeToSellYou,
I usually end up getting quotes from three different resellers. One
of them is a "normal" VAR. One of them is Dull. The third is just a
straight-ahead reseller, no pretensions of any added value. For some
reason, the reseller behind door number three always seems to give me
the low bid. Sometimes I have trouble getting bids from the other two
-- I suppose they already know that they're going to be high bidders
and don't see why they should save me the effort of writing a
sole-source justification. Of course, I never tell them who they're
competing against, but I can't control what $WeHaveABridgeToSellYou's
inside sales is telling them.

-GAWollman

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Garrett A. Wollman | The real tragedy of human existence is not that we are
wollman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx| nasty by nature, but that a cruel structural asymmetry
Opinions not those | grants to rare events of meanness such power to shape
of MIT or CSAIL. | our history. - S.J. Gould, Ten Thousand Acts of Kindness
.

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