Yeah - we as end customers drive some retailers into the floor, simply by trying to save every last dollar on the purchase price.
Even BCL (http://www.bcl.co.nz/) went the "cheap cheap PC" road, and hit the wall after 31 years of trading. -----Original Message----- From: Nick Rout [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 21 March 2005 10:36 p.m. To: clug Subject: Re: PC Sellers WAS Duelling Mice was Re: Howl!!! Urgent advice needed on Wireless Keyboards for Linux On Mon, 2005-03-21 at 17:09 +1200, John Carter wrote: > First notable is ComputerFuture and ComputerBroker seems to have > merged. IIRC the Computer Broker started in his garage in Westmoreland, I bought RAM from him for a 486, when the 486 was not too old. [1] He then moved into town and started selling new gear, metamorphosed into Computer Future. Spun off the Computer Broker to specialise in second hand gear - mainly ex-lease. Now moved them back into the fold. BTW I noticed recently that the PC Practice in Fitzgerald Ave has shut down. I hope no one has been stuck with warranty grief. Those guys grew quickly and were very competitively priced at times. When will people learn that you cannot compete on volume alone, the % rate of warranty return will be the same no matter whether you sell 10,000 units at $50 gross profit or 5,000 units at $100.00 gross profit. [1] I bought a hard drive from PC's Unlimited for the same box to make room for W95. *The Shame* . I guess that means that both those retailers have been around for the thick end of 10 years. -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
