From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Feb 4 16:20:47 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id QAA17008 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 4 Feb 1996 16:20:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA17003 for ; Sun, 4 Feb 1996 16:20:44 -0800 (PST) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id RAA08837; Sun, 4 Feb 1996 17:16:58 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199602050016.RAA08837@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: Multi-Port Async Cards To: gerg@stallion.oz.au (Greg Ungerer) Date: Sun, 4 Feb 1996 17:16:58 -0700 (MST) Cc: jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com, terry@lambert.org, gerg@stallion.oz.au, hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <9602050935.aa29018@cluster.stallion.oz.au> from "Greg Ungerer" at Feb 5, 96 09:35:15 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > Well, oddly enough Stallion used to have price info in the web site. But the > sales folk removed it... The main reason is that it only listed US prices, > and this is not very useful for people outside of the US. Actually, it causes them to ask embarrasing questions, like "why does it cost more outside the US", to which there are no good answers. So it's easier to dodge the questions. 8-). Back when I was involved in the running of a small ($2M-$3M/year) software company, we had a continual "problem" of companies in the UK buying directly from distributors in the US after their quantity price break and selling directly in the UK (bypassing our signed distributors). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.