Component distributors?

[Michael T. Halligan]

I know all this, thanks though. My real interest is more like a rating
of price & user interactiveness,  and a listing (where your site was
helpful, thanks! didn't know about some of those distributors)

On Mon, 7 Jun 2004, Alvin Oga wrote:

> 
> hi ya michael
> 
> On Mon, 7 Jun 2004, Michael T. Halligan wrote:
> 
> > One of my customers currently builds whitebox linux servers, and sells a few
> > per month to his customers as a value-added service.  He's currently
> > sourcing components through nextag, but I was thinking he could save
> 
> buying components from nextag/pricewatch/dealtime is a (very) bad thing:-)
> 	- i assume you mean mb, disks, cpu, memory, case, etc,etc
> 
> 	components to most distibutors are resistors, capacitors, 74xx,
> 	relays, switches  vs wires, cables, harness, etc
> 
> > himself some hassles by going through a reseller.. He's got a reseller's
> > permit.
> 
> if he has a resellers permit, he can buy direct from distributors and
> depending on number of different parts, he can easily beat any webstore
> prices for "all parts"
> 	the mom-n-pop webstore might have one part that is super cheap
> 	to get you into their place, which they might not even stock
>  	which you sometimes do NOT know about till after they have
> 	your credit card info
> 
> - if you buy direct from distributors w/ a reseller permit and do NOT
>   resell it, you can lose your reseller permit
> 
> - always asks a live person, if they have it in stock ( today ), and go
>   pick it up ( today ) to see if they have xxx part in stock at $xx.01
>   each  ( otherwise, you can buy everything from your favorite distributor
>   and get a better pricing from them cause you buy "everything" from them
> 	- i only care about what they have in inventory ...
> 	and i go pick it up and sometimes have them ship it
> 	cause we don't have time to run around the bay area
> 
> 	- yup, just got back from my daily errands picking up parts
> 
> - list of local distributors
> 
> 	http://www.Linux-1U.net/Distributors
> 
> 	- some distributors are better than others
> 	( they know what you want and what they have in stock )
> 
> 	- some distributors will sell to consumers and people with
> 	reseller permits ( in general a paperwork nightmare for them )
> 	- some distributors pricing is better than others
> 	- some distributors have a (hidden or obvious) online store 
> 
> 	- some big distributors will only talk to you if you have your
> 	sku part# ... and tell you go away if you tell um you want
> 	an intel p4-2.8G 800fsb 
> 
> c ya
> alvin
> 
> 

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