Re: Bulk Buy, anyone?

["Paul Gale" <psghome@xxxxxxx>]

Looks like a great little gadget - but I'm really sceptical as to 
whether it really will pick up the hair from my dog! I'll await the 
review with interest.


--- In ukha_d@y..., "Mark Harrison" <Mark.Harrison@e...>
wrote:
> 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@b...]
> 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@b...]
> 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@e...]
> 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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