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"Ogden Johnson III" <oj3usmc@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> "Paul Schilter" <paulschilter@comcast dot net> wrote:
>
>>Ogden,
>> Actually I got this Dim 8400 on eBay. It was through a re-seller.
>> Brand
>>new sealed in the box and $400 cheaper than anything I could price through
>>the Dell site, including the large business section where I can go as an
>>employee of Ford's. It's even warranted through Dell. The only thing I can
>>figure is that it has the 3.0 processor which I don't see offered on the
>>8400 anymore. Just don't ask about the clone I bought on eBay from Dollar
>>Computers, I should have had my head examined to buy from this company,
>>the
>>name says it all.
>
> I hadn't intended to write a textbook, just to make a general
> comment. Whatever the relationship between an E-Bay or other
> venue outlet center with Dell, they will operate as an
> independent profit center. Buying Dell's surplus, generally I
> suspect on bids themselves, for $X, hoping to be able to sell
> them for at least $Y, and thus making up to $Z net profit before
> expenses.
>
> Under the law of supply and demand, if Dell itself is able to
> sell a comparable or better system for a spell at $Q, which is $P
> less than $Y, the outlet will have to reduce their price or their
> stock of surplus Dells won't sell. Worse, if that $Q pricing of
> Dell's is less than $X, the outlet is in deep kimchee and facing
> a serious loss, depending on how many computers they bought from
> Dell at $X.
>
> You obviously caught a bargain, and that your savings was as much
> as $400 seems to show that in this case the outlet's buyer
> guessed right when he bought that batch of 8400s and made the
> outlet company a net profit.
>
> In the situation Hummer described, the outlet guessed wrong, and
> right now the buyer involved is probably gulping Maaloxes and
> Tylenol like Tic-Tacs.
> --
> OJ III
> [Email to Yahoo address may be burned before reading.
> Lower and crunch the sig and you'll net me at comcast.]
Yeah. There's a guy selling (refurbed) Dimension 4400's up there ( "in
sealed box") for prices that are too high for P4 2GHz machines. He'd best
hope he moves whatever stock he has quickly, as he's already upside down.
Stew
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