Best place to buy soft wares?
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Beside CDW, PCMall, SHI, Dell, HP, etc... where do you buy your soft wares for business?
I am looking into MalwareBytes for business right now and CDW quoted me a price which somewhere inside me telling me there is a cheaper pricing available somewhere else.
Volume licencing.<< -
Second question: Why is CDW so expensive??
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@LAH3385 said:
Second question: Why is CDW so expensive??
Either so they can give big discounts on everything, or because people were indoctrinated to only buy from CDW by one of their brainwashing (sales) people.
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Software pricing isn't set by the Vendor it's set buy your agreement with Microsoft, and the other companies. If you have an agreement with them that's the pricing you get.
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@LAH3385 said:
Second question: Why is CDW so expensive??
So expensive? They might be a little more than the competition, but generally not more than 10% and even so - why does it matter? are you forced to buy from them for some reason?
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@LAH3385 said:
Beside CDW, PCMall, SHI, Dell, HP, etc... where do you buy your soft wares for business?
I am looking into MalwareBytes for business right now and CDW quoted me a price which somewhere inside me telling me there is a cheaper pricing available somewhere else.
Volume licencing.<<We at @ntg use Softmart. They've been great for us.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@LAH3385 said:
Beside CDW, PCMall, SHI, Dell, HP, etc... where do you buy your soft wares for business?
I am looking into MalwareBytes for business right now and CDW quoted me a price which somewhere inside me telling me there is a cheaper pricing available somewhere else.
Volume licencing.<<We at @ntg use Softmart. They've been great for us.
I've been looking at setting up accounts at Softmart.
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@JaredBusch said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@LAH3385 said:
Beside CDW, PCMall, SHI, Dell, HP, etc... where do you buy your soft wares for business?
I am looking into MalwareBytes for business right now and CDW quoted me a price which somewhere inside me telling me there is a cheaper pricing available somewhere else.
Volume licencing.<<We at @ntg use Softmart. They've been great for us.
I've been looking at setting up accounts at Softmart.
Use Shannon, tell her we sent you :)
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I've been with Softmart for 2 years... overall, very happy.
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I can make an introduction directly to Shannon if you would like.
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They seem to be more expensive than provantge for hardware, list price anyway. About the same as SHI.
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@Jason said:
They seem to be more expensive than provantge for hardware, list price anyway. About the same as SHI.
They are not similar things. Softmart is a VAR, like CDW. They get from distributors like Provantage, IM, Tech Data. Distributors are always the lowest cost because they are the wholesalers.
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@Jason said:
They seem to be more expensive than provantge for hardware, list price anyway. About the same as SHI.
Prices on their website aren't what we get at all.
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Don't you typically have to be a reseller to get access to the distributors?
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@Dashrender said:
Don't you typically have to be a reseller to get access to the distributors?
You buy in volume and you can buy from distribution in most cases.
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@Dashrender said:
Don't you typically have to be a reseller to get access to the distributors?
"Typically" yes, but definitely not exclusively.
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@LAH3385 You can also look at Softchoice. That's where I get all my wares from shameless plug
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i use what is now PCM. Used to be global, then comp usa, then tiger direct, now PCM...
