[access-uk] Re: In Touch: Why do we pay so much? Again!
- From: "Barry" <bbinc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 12:34:25 +0100
When I compare the cost of call out for I.T., then the RNIB are comparitively
cheap. So I assume that the same would go for the other products and services
offered by them. I've never had a gripe with the prices of their access
products although I would not buy any non-access products from them as the RNIB
just can't compete with the prices found on the internet.
Barry
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From: Wally.Harding@xxxxxxxxxxx
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2004 8:09 AM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: In Touch: Why do we pay so much? Again!
Barry
You're right, it wouldn't be wise or prudent for me to give figures but I
can tell you that our margin is nowhere near what the commercial sector
would add, it's not even half.
Wally Harding
RNIB Hi-tech support
-----Original Message-----
From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf
Of Barry
Sent: 28 July 2004 12:14
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] Re: In Touch: Why do we pay so much? Again!
I know there are some people on this list who work for suppliers of access
equipment. Can any of them tell us what profit margin they work to? I can
imagine it is more than their job is worth. Then again, if it is a
reasonable profit margin then, surely that would be a positive endorsement
of the company.
Barry H
----- Original Message -----
From: Wally.Harding@xxxxxxxxxxx
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2004 8:16 AM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: In Touch: Why do we pay so much? Again!
If the charity you're hinting at is the one for which I work, you are very
much mistaken, we are certainly not doing very well out of it, I know, I'm
in the middle of it all but don't make the decisions or have any powers to
change things.
It should also be remembered that when a supplier/reseller, like us, sells
a
product for which that supplier doesn't have sole distributorship of, the
price for which it is sold is determined by the manufacturer and we have
to
go with it or not supply it.
That's why jaws costs the same no matter where you buy it in the UK,
because
Freedom Scientific control the pricing of their product. This is also the
reason why there is almost no competition between companies/charities with
regards to access technology products.
Wally Harding
RNIB Hi-tech support
-----Original Message-----
From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf
Of Ray's Home
Sent: 27 July 2004 21:09
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] In Touch: Why do we pay so much? Again!
Hello again list.
Tonight's In Touch may appeal to those like me who feel we are
unjustafiably
paying over the odds for much equipment. Included is an interview with
Alan
Davis of Pulse Daae International.. See what you think of his defence.
There was a suggestion that the larger charities should campaign on this.
Could be that at least one of them is doing fairly nicely out of this,
thanks very much.
Go to:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/factual/rams/intouch.ram
To hear the latest edition.
Ray.
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