Razer and Corex 2-UP to bring gaming goodies to local gamers
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Weasley
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Why are you glad about Esquire?
Will frontosa still be selling Razer? or will corex be the sole supplier to SA?
Kuga
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ATIboy, is there an article as to where this news is?
I'm glad they lost it. They were selling to end users anyway, as well as advertising in the newspaper. All the cost prices were there.
You cannot be a disty and a retailer!
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As an end user, I would be happy that a distributor sells to me. It cuts out an additional markup.
Kuga
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As an end user, you buying from the distributor takes food out of my mouth.
If you aren't in the industry, you shouldn't even know about such things as a distributor.
I'm glad the other disty's don't pull shit like what Esquire does. Esquire basically shot themselves in the foot. If all the dealers boycotted them, they would go bang.
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The Joker
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I am not to sure whether Frontosa will still be selling Razer, I don't do much business with them. Will find out tomorrow.
Hey buddy
Nope no news on it, I was there when they had to remove all the Razer stuff from their shelves.
From what I understand, it happened because they sold to end users. Not sure how true that is though.
They have lost another big brand but I am not at liberty to say anything about that.
As for the guys buying directly from Distributors, you are actually hurting the economy and although its cool that you save a couple of rands here and there, you're messing with the retailers, there are shops (not mentioning names) that have incredibly small mark ups on distro prices and then they still lose because of places like Esquire. To make a quick buck they sell to end users, screwing over the resellers and retailers that buy from them to resell.
Why am I glad they lost Razer...Well as of late the service at Esquire has been terrible, Techies think they know better than you do (I have been building pc's for almost 17 years) They always have issues with warranty swap outs and on top of that they have now introduced a system for the following:
So lets say you buy a Graphics card for R2000, 5 months down the line, the card goes bang and you take it to get it swapped out. So they don't have stock on that card as it is EOL so they offer to give you a better card with a pay in from you're side, or they offer to give you credit. So you take the credit option...Oh but wait they now only give credit for 70% of the original purchase price...Yeah bunch of money hungry sharks.
Yeah I see your point, but you also have to look at is from the point of the consumer.
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Kuga, my question to you then is, what is the point of buying from a dealer rather than a distributor? Why should we as a consumer pay more for the PC and go through a dealer?
Some clarification: I am just a consumer. I don't know all the rules around being distributors or dealers or anything.
The only main thing I can really see is dealers could provide a service. They build the PC for you (at more charge), and they could handle warranty or returns for you as a consumer. ...
Except! Any time I've gone through a dealer, and had a warranty replace (2 hard drives died at separate times), they've pushed me off with a "The distributor doesn't want to replace." So if the dealer isn't taking care of me, why should I be paying more to take care of the dealer? They're just going to feed me whatever line the distributor would have anyway.
Now I'm not saying this is how you do business, I've never bought anything from you. But this is my experience of dealers.
Kuga, my question to you then is, what is the point of buying from a dealer rather than a distributor? Why should we as a consumer pay more for the PC and go through a dealer?
Some clarification: I am just a consumer. I don't know all the rules around being distributors or dealers or anything.
The only main thing I can really see is dealers could provide a service. They build the PC for you (at more charge), and they could handle warranty or returns for you as a consumer. ...
Except! Any time I've gone through a dealer, and had a warranty replace (2 hard drives died at separate times), they've pushed me off with a "The distributor doesn't want to replace." So if the dealer isn't taking care of me, why should I be paying more to take care of the dealer? They're just going to feed me whatever line the distributor would have anyway.
Now I'm not saying this is how you do business, I've never bought anything from you. But this is my experience of dealers.
ArchieChoke
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Pooky I agree with you totally here.
We all agree that its hard to be a retailer cause you have to move stock fast, however I dont think it gives them the right to mark up as much as they do.Sometimes if you look at actual cost of a part its about half the retail price.I cannot understand how people can complain about retailers dying off when the end user gets a product thats marked up by 100% almost.
At the end of the day, I almost get the idea its like the bread cartels.
This happens way too many times to me.
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The Joker
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You guys are missing the point, there are retailers that put a incredibly small mark up on their products, again I am not mentioning names, but you just have to google and you'll see. Also if you have retailer telling you that they won't swap a drive with some bullshit excuse, Use www.hellopeter.com and complain about it. Its you're own fault for just accepting it, fight for what's rightfully yours.
I add such tiny mark ups that I sometimes break even when building a pc, and I don't mind. I am happy that my customers get great service and great prices. Which almost always means more business from them or their friends and family.
ArchieChoke
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hellopeter has never giving me any good results. The supplier goes on boo hoo, sorry you had problems and thats it, doesnt improve doesnt fix my situation. Your right its my fault for thinking of giving a retailer a chance, cause half the time the websites are hardly maintained or even looked at. Half the time you phone cause you see there is stock but your going to phone cause retailers websites hardly reflect true stock calculations.
Well thank you then for making tiny markups, but then your 1 out the thousands retailers that are good out there. I personally do my best to go the retailers but when I see a GPU at R2000 at a distrubutor and R6000 at a retailer, im not going to bother doing more research on the net cause a retailer will probily nock off R100 or more than his competitor.
Lyt
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Rebeltech, sybatric, Titan-Ice, Prophecy, comx computers, people should know where to buy from and to avoid shit like incredible connection or matrixwarehouse.