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Non-Tech : Any info about Iomega (IOM)? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Andrew Shih who wrote (40168)	12/16/1997 3:45:00 PM
From: dale velkovitz	Respond to of 58324

The problem with interpreting online inventory information is that many folks make a lot of erroneous assumptions. In this case, the error is that the inventory that ISN shows is NOT ISN's inventory, ISN is a virtual retailer and does not carry ANY inventory, what you are actually looking at when you see ISN inventory is the inventory of Ingram, the largest wholesale distributor of computer wares in the U.S. These same values show up in the online inventories of many Web vendors so one must exercise extreme care in interpreting these numbers. What virtual resellers do is simply show what is available at Ingram or another wholesaler, set their prices and process order paperwork , the actual merchandise is drop shipped to the end customer directly from Ingram. Ingram accounted for something like 15% of IOM's total sales last year according to the Iomega 10-K filing. <<http://www.css.isn.com The problem with ISN is that they've always had a large inventory of Zip drives. I did check their inventory in early November and even back then they had 20,000+ Parallel Port Zips. The main problem with ISN, however, is their pricing. They still sell Zip drives for $145.89. That's the main reason they're not selling that well. Who would pay $145.89 when you can go to your local retailer and pay $129 less? P.S. Speaking of inventory, they have around 3000 SyJets available. -Andrew>>