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You were never their target audience. There is never one price off the shelf pricing for this kind of hardware
by athorax 3y ago
You were never their target audience. There is never one price off the shelf pricing for this kind of hardware
- deprecative 3y agoGrift pricing denotes a grift. If there's no price then the price is made up.
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- __loam 3y agoI'd bet money there's thousands of b2b deals that look exactly like this.
- moooo99 3y agoConsidering most of the B2B deals are a huge PITA I’m not sure this is a good thing?
- martyvis 3y agoAll prices anywhere are "just made up". It's cost + taxes + profit margin you want to make on this deal. The market elasticity determines how often you want to move that price up or down.
- aaronblohowiak 3y agoAll prices are made up, except maybe “efficient” commodity markets..
- fnordpiglet 3y agoEnterprise pricing is absolutely a grift, but one where the grifted and grifters are promoted when they fall for the grift.
- CamperBob2 3y agoThat's what they told Michael Dell, too.
- bananapub 3y ago... dell famously doesn't have one price either.
- rcxdude 3y agobut they do generally have a price. Even if it's the super-high no-one-should-actually-pay-this price, it really helps with evaluating whether something should even be on the list to contact sales about.
- CamperBob2 3y agoOf course not. The idea was that you'd get a base price from the ad, then call Dell's 1-800 number to order and customize the system. That way you didn't have to waste time haggling with salesdroids if the price was 10x what you could afford. They didn't just "tell him," they laughed their heads off at him. Advertising prices and selling direct Just Was Not Done. Until it was, leaving a trail of bankrupt competitors that looked like that road in Iraq.