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- Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 09:35:26 -0500
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- From: "Terry Kennedy, Operations Mgr" <TERRY@SPCVXA.BITNET>
- Subject: Re: Info needed on CSLG and other TEI changes
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- Tracy S. Holt <HOLT@GMUVAX.BITNET> writes:
-
- > I attended the session with the announcements. There will be a revised
- > TEI program that Ellen said would be announced around mid-January, 1993.
- > My notes say that she will post the announcement to this list as soon as
- > she can.
-
- The problem is that we have funds that must be spent by the end of the year.
- Without having a price or knowing what discount, if any, is in place we can't
- place orders with Digital and will be forced to go elsewhere to get a firm
- price quote on "commodity hardware". Having gone elsewhere, we might discover
- that prices are lower, or delivery faster, or... It's a trend I'd rather not
- start, but I'm being forced into it.
-
- Some policies changed as far back as November 2nd (if not earlier). I find
- it hard to believe that we can't get a simple statement of what the policies
- _currently__in_force_ are...
-
- Further, Ellen writes:
-
- Date: 03 Nov 1992 15:00:37 -0800 (PST)
- From: ELLEN MINTER * 297-2461 * EDUCATION MARKETING <minter@MR4DEC.ENET.DEC.COM>
- Subject: Education Pricing Program 1
-
- [text deleted]
-
- You will no longer have to endure tedious, time-consuming price
- negotiations on discounts. And you will be assured that you are
- getting the best prices available to all education customers -- whether
- you receive them from me or from one of Digital's direct order
- channels.
-
- [text deleted]
-
- P.S. There will be a new U.S. TEI Desktop Price List distributed prior to
- the November 10, Alpha Announcement.
-
- [end included text]
-
- So, instead of "tedious, time-consuming price negotiations on discounts",
- I now get an honest "we don't know and we don't know how to find out" from
- both DECdirect and CCR. Sounds like a step in the wrong direction to me.
-
- [Again, I am _not_ complaining about price. I am long past that point - if
- Digital doesn't have a competitive price I'll go elsewhere. It's just not
- possible to find out _if_ Digital has a competitive price since nobody knows
- what is going on.]
-
- Terry Kennedy Operations Manager, Academic Computing
- terry@spcvxa.bitnet St. Peter's College, Jersey City, NJ USA
- terry@spcvxa.spc.edu +1 201 915 9381
-