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From: harverso@beastie.cs.und.ac.za (Tony Harverson )
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: disgruntled.. not a flame.. to cdrom.com
Date: 17 Sep 1995 12:23:45 GMT
Organization: University of Natal (Durban), South Africa
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: For a given title, you sell anywhere from 20-40% directly to customers and
: the rest through distributor channels.  These distributor channels are your
: lifeblood (no surprise there, considering the percentages involved) and
: they are VERY fussy about what they'll pay!  They order those kinds of
: volumes because they can sell them, and they can sell them because:  A)
: They sell them cheap.  B) They can still make respectable volume profit
: margins and are therefore _highly motivated_ to sell as many as they can.
: That's all distributors do, after all, they don't make things or do any
: sort of R&D investment, they just sell stuff.  Therefore, it hardly

This having been said, I was wondering if there was a list of dealers
who supply FreeBSD lurking around somewhere... I Want to buy the 2.1 CD when
it comes out,  But $38 translates into 120 Rand which is a little dear, and
if I could get a friend to buy it over there cheaper, It would be FAR less
of a strain on the pocket.  

Thanks

Tony



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