RE: Bulk Buy, anyone?

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

Peter,

That would be fantastic if you could kick off proceedings...

As far as I'm concerned, if you want to do the full organisation of a BB,
you're welcome... but if you're not prepared to commit to that amount of
work, then handling the negotiation would be a superb help.

Note that I'm NOT committing to that amount of work either... I'm figuring
that if we can get an offer on the table, then a volunteer will appear to
organise it :-)

M.

-----Original Message-----
From: White, Peter [mailto:peter.white@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 21 October 2002 09:30
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Bulk Buy, anyone?


I've been doing a bit more digging.  From the sites linked from the
Roomba
site, 2 of them ship internationally...

http://www.hammacher.com/publish/66632.asp
want 16% shipping - about ?21 per
unit (stock levels not shown on web site)

http://www.sharperimage.com/us/en/catalog/productview.jhtml?sku=IR105
do
ship, but no prices or stock info available.

Brookstone do not ship outside of the US, but do accept international
billing addresses, so if anyone has a friendly contact willing to take
local
delivery and forward on....

It's runs on rechargeable batts (stating the obvious, it's hardly going
to
run on petrol!), but I've not been able to find any details on the
charger,
i.e. is it a multi-voltage jobbie - anyone know?

Mark - I've not emailed anybody to check stock levels and see what
discounts
would be available for a BB - do you want me to?  I suspect discounts
will
be low, just because demand is currently outstripping supply.

Pete


-----Original Message-----
From: White, Peter [mailto:peter.white@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 19 October 2002 18:20
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Bulk Buy, anyone?


That's exactly how I phrased the question (I quote "Can you let me
know if
you have a UK distributor for the Roomba cleaner, or whether you are
currently seeking a distributor?") partly with the thought in mind
that the
supplies section of the company I work for might want to look at this
type
of thing (they didn't!).

I only sent 1 email, so didn't try very hard, but judging from the
supply
problems they're having in the States, they've got their hand full just
supplying the local market.

Pete
-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Harrison [mailto:Mark.Harrison@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 19 October 2002 17:26
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Bulk Buy, anyone?


Pete,

I was thinking that we might position any approach to iRobot as "we'd
like
to BECOME a supplier" :-)

M.



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