RE: BULK BUY FOR RIOs - Update

["Mark Harrison" <Mark.Harrison@xxxxxxx>]

Nikoka,

 

That's the idea ;-)

 

I should stress that the previous bulk buys have mainly been imports from the States, where there were substantial shipping savings to be made from bulk-shipping to a single UK point, then sending out locally, compared to individual shipments to each importer.

 

It's a model that probably only works in cases like this, where the vendor is already UK-(EU?)based.

 

Regards,

Mark

-----Original Message-----
From: Nikola Kasic [mailto:nikola@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 9 April 2002 16:05
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxxSubject: RE: [ukha_d] BULK BUY FOR RIOs - Update

And it has more sense to negotiate the price for purchasing directly. It should be cheaper, because we don't pay shipping twice and simpler, because buyers can deal with seller directly, there's no re-packaging involved etc. You just negotiate the price and supply the list of buyers to them.

If that works, maybe same model can be applied to future bulk buys?

Nik

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Harrison [mailto:Mark.Harrison@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 09 April 2002 14:10
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxxSubject: [ukha_d] BULK BUY FOR RIOs - Update

Dear all,

It looks as if there may be about 15-20 units wanted, based simply on those who've responded to the "Rio Purchases" email in the last couple of hours!

I'm going to leave it till, say, lunchtime tomorrow, before I approach Sonic Blue again, to see how many we've got interested.

As I said before, I'm happy to do the "bulk buy" negotiations (I am a corporate negotiator, after all), but realistically I don't have the time available to actual do the administration of a bulk buy.

However, I think it's only fair to say at this stage that I will only really push ahead with a bulk buy if we can get a price better than £130/item + shipping from the co-ordinator to the purchasers. Otherwise (taking into account the fact that items will be shipped twice, and the work required (based on previous ones), there just isn't any point compared to simply saying "buy them direct!".

The ideal is, of course, to arrange a "group discount" based on everyone buying directly from SonicBlue... this is what I'll put to them.

As such I think the process and timescales are:

- Today, tomorrow: Get outline numbers
- Wednesday, thursday: Get price/volume commitment from SonicBlue
- Friday: announce the appointment of the "Bulk Buy co-ordinator"
- Friday: announce the price/volumes officially, both to those who've responded, and to the UKHA_list

- Monday-Wednesday next week: Bulk Buy co-ordinator gets commitments (ie payment) from all those wishing to purchase
- Thursday next week: Place the order

- Mid week-after-next: Bulk Buy co-ordinator receives goods, distribute them
- Weekend-after-next (26th April): Purchasers receive goods


-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Harrison
Sent: 9 April 2002 11:44
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxxSubject: [ukha_d] BULK BUY FOR RIOs


OK.

Here's the deal.

If you are interested in buying a Rio Receiver (rebadged DDAR), then please send a message as follows:

To: Mark.Harrison@xxxxxxx             (NOT TO THE GROUP)
Subject: Rio Purchase                        (NO OTHER SUBJECT LINE)

Please include in the message how many you would like to buy.

Please do this EVEN IF you have already sent me (or the group) a message. The reason for this is that my automated rules are filtering any replies to the earlier message into my UKHA_D folder. I am going to set up a separate rule to filter messages about "Rio Purchase" into a dedicated folder, which I'm more likely to keep up-to-date with than my UKHA_D one ;-)

At this time, the bulk buy is NOT binding. The purpose of these emails is to gauge interest prior to approaching SonicBlue for a price.

Obviously, if enough people are interested to get a decent reduction, then we'll discuss who's best placed to co-ordinate the bulk buy. It may not be me... However, I'm happy to be the negotiator ;-)

Regards,

Mark


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