{"id":1203,"date":"2012-07-25T15:20:08","date_gmt":"2012-07-25T19:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/?p=1203"},"modified":"2012-07-25T15:20:08","modified_gmt":"2012-07-25T19:20:08","slug":"1203","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/index.php\/2012\/07\/25\/1203\/","title":{"rendered":"A great article Independent support"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jeff Klein, a long term customer of Zerowait&#8217;s, recently wrote an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techzone360.com\/topics\/techzone\/articles\/2012\/07\/24\/300192-how-americas-top-oems-trying-crush-third-party.htm\" target=\"_blank\">article for tech zone<\/a> about independent third party support and refurbished parts for legacy Information Technology equipment. It is a well written article and I think it is worth your time to understand the issues involved. Here are some interesting excerpts.<\/p>\n<p>* &#8220;The Federal Government spent $2,034,269,948 on new equipment while only spending only $9,114,676 on refurbished. A resounding 99.6 percent of Federal IT dollars was spent with OEMs and OEM authorized resellers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>* &#8220;Still others [OEMs] issue fictitious list prices. These can be a much as 200 to 300 percent higher than what they will charge a good customer, i.e., they can offer the perception of huge discounts to end customers while asking independents to pay much higher list prices for the same product or part.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Jeff&#8217;s article ends with this :<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The solution is simple. Corporate IT buyers must join with their independent suppliers to demand that manufacturers: 1. Stop their attacks on independents. 2. Call on the U.S. Department of Justice to commence hearings to determine if AGMA is in violation of anti-trust laws. Without coordinated action, competition will continue to be curtailed, prices will rise, choices will be limited and free trade in America will be a little less free. &#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.techzone360.com\/topics\/techzone\/articles\/2012\/07\/24\/300192-how-americas-top-oems-trying-crush-third-party.htm\">http:\/\/www.techzone360.com\/topics\/techzone\/articles\/2012\/07\/24\/300192-how-americas-top-oems-trying-crush-third-party.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeff Klein, a long term customer of Zerowait&#8217;s, recently wrote an article for tech zone about independent third party support and refurbished parts for legacy Information Technology equipment. It is a well written article and I think it is worth &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/index.php\/2012\/07\/25\/1203\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1203"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1203\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}