BULK BUY FOR RIOs - Update

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

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 Soni= c 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 t= ime 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 reall= y push ahead with a bulk buy if we can get a price better than =A3130/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 (b= ased on previous ones), there just isn't any point compared to simply sayin= g "buy them direct!".

The ideal is, of course, to arrange a "group discount" based on e= veryone 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 respo= nded, and to the UKHA_list

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

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


-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Harrison
Sent: 9 April 2002 11:44
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx Subject: [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        &nbs= p;    (NOT TO THE GROUP)
Subject: Rio Purchase          = ;              (NO O= THER 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. T= he 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 fol= der, 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 t= o 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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