Calling all NANOG'ers - idea for national hardware price quote registry

Warren Kumari Warren at kumari.net
Fri Sep 16 21:53:44 UTC 2005



On Sep 16, 2005, at 2:12 PM, Matt Bazan wrote:
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: owner-nanog at merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog at merit.edu] On
>> Behalf Of Sean Figgins
>>
>>> Yes, it would be great, however it won't work.
>>>
>>
>>
>
> Couple points.  This is true typically in only the largest enterprise
> quotes.  For the vast majority of medium and small business quotes  
> NDAs
> are rarely used.  And hey, if they are , that's why the process is
> anonymous ;-)  Besides, in today's crap economy, is a vendor really
> going to come down on a client for violating an NDA and throw away $ 
> $$$?
> I personally don't have experience with this but I'm willing to bet  
> that
> most NDAs are more bark than bite.
>

You might want to be careful there... A friend of mine moved from  
Company A to Company B and told his new employer what discount he had  
been getting from Vendor C (suggesting that new  employer could get a  
better discount) . Vendor C promptly sued him for breach of NDA.  
AFAIR, the case was settled, but Company B had some fairly high legal  
bills...

The range of discounts that different customers get is quite  
surprising and often seems to change mainly upon negotiation skills  
and not necessarily amount of equipment purchased.

Warren.

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