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IT's Most Outrageous Markups?
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?"
But XML markup is the worst!
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Here's an opposing view (Scroll down to the second-last letter - lucky b'stard).
Consultancy: If you're not part of the solution, there's money to be made in prolonging the problem
...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.
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.
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.
134340: I am not a number. I am a free planet!