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IT's Most Outrageous Markups?

Posted by Cliff on from the insane-profit-margins dept.

masteritrit asks: "I have seen some really outrageous markups from IT companies. Cisco sells memory for a router I have for $1500 bucks and I bought it directly from Kingston for $56 bucks. I also had someone at storagetec accidentally reveal that their standard markup is 700%. What are some examples of this that others have seen and how do you feel about it?"

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  1. Most outrageous is... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Here...

    1. Re:Most outrageous is... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

      Or here too.

  2. The obligatory SCO post. by Jellybob · · Score: 2, Funny

    Would everyone who just though of mentioning SCO's markup of 699% please add their post below.

    And before the trolls turn up, I know 699% of nothing is nothing, but it was the best I could do at this time of night.

    1. Re:The obligatory SCO post. by deek · · Score: 1, Funny
      • Would everyone who just though of mentioning SCO's markup of 699% please add their post below.

      Actually, I was thinking that a markup of <ERR DIV_BY_ZERO>% was more appropriate.
  3. HTML is bad enough... by phraktyl · · Score: 4, Funny

    But XML markup is the worst!

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  4. What about the opposite? by Chris+Brewer · · Score: 3, Funny

    Here's an opposing view (Scroll down to the second-last letter - lucky b'stard).

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  5. IBM RAM upgrades... by MightyTribble · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...for one of our AIX RS/6000 servers. I forget the exact quote amount, but it was, I think, around $1,200 for 512MB. We bought the same RAM from Kingston for less than $400 (after the IBM rep almost blew his top arguing that if we didn't buy from him, we'd void the warranty).

    So we crack the case to put in the new RAM, and what do we find? The *exact same* Kingston RAM module is already providing us with our first 512 MB of memory. Priceless.

  6. HP/Compaq Spare Parts by wang33 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Just for giggles when a hdd in one of laptops crapped out, I went to HP's website to find out what they had to offer, i found this $1073.00 10 gig laptop hard drive.
    I just about fell off my chair laughing so hard. I think we bought an equivelant hdd through compgeeks for
    wang33

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  7. here's a good one by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    I actually paid $150 for a copy of Windows. Can you believe it? $150 for an operating system? It must've cost about $0.05 for the media, plus a few bucks for the programmer who copied the code from VMS, BSD, and MacOS.

    Believe me, I never made that mistake again!

  8. HP Heatsink - $972.00!!!! by seigniory · · Score: 3, Funny

    No lie - we needed an HP heatsink to replace one that was (ahem) "dropped". Turns out that the heatsink costs $3 more than the processor (P3 1Ghz) itself (which CAME WITH A HEATSINK).

    I just don't get it.

  9. Re:CompUSA Prices by the_other_one · · Score: 3, Funny

    Get your aleged girlfriend/wife to carry it out.
    Claim that she is pregnant.
    The father is a computer geek/Slashdot reader.
    Therefore the kid is going to be somewhat square.

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