[asterisk-biz] Why so many international customers ask for free samples

[Steve Totaro]

On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 1:58 PM, Trixter aka Bret McDanel
<trixter at 0xdecafbad.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-10-27 at 13:49 -0400, Steve Totaro wrote:
>> To an extent yes, but he is not selling minutes, he is selling
>> hardware (as far as I know).
>>
>> Using the terms "VoIP isn't a single sale" is misleading since he is
>> selling phones or whatever, which very well may be a single batch
>> sale.
>>
>
> oh its hardware?  that is even more likely to attract people who ask for
> samples.  Its a hardware engineering thing, call up mouser, digikey, or
> any of the other top 10 global component resellers, call up
> manufacturers such as Ti, they all have a samples department.
> Fortunately for me there was a Mouser right by the college I went to and
> their samples department basically gave me more than enough stuff back
> then to make some neat toys :)  So yes it does get abused, but generally
> its seen as a cost of doing business in such firms.
>
> However end user retail goods generally do not get samples the same way,
> for some its like Sun where you try before you buy, basically you clear
> credit and all that, and if you like the system after your term (90 days
> or it used to be) you had to send it back or pay for it.  Sure they run
> the risk of the type of crowd getting the big screen just before hte big
> game and returning it just after, but that is why sun runs credit and
> sees how many systems you can demo this way.
>
>
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I am not too sure how that would work across boarders and in
particular, the US and China if someone didn't keep up their end of
the bargain.

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