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To: Stewart Walton who wrote (50544)	7/10/1998 2:16:00 PM
From: Lancer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 176387

About local resellers. I can't tell about USA market, but IMO, and referring to the situation here in Italy, the greatest advantage that local resellers (and assemblers) have vs. Dell is the lack of information about this company. Generally, the fast service of small resellers is related to lacks in software installation, that generates malfunctions, or simply to inexperience of the customers. BTW: WHY Dell hasn't launched an advertising campaign also here in Europe? I think it could boost greatly Dell's sales. Sorry for my bad english, an my best regards to you and to all the thread. Luciano M. Trentadue

To: Stewart Walton who wrote (50544)	7/10/1998 5:33:00 PM
From: rudedog	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 176387

Stewart - Great question. In fact the fastest growing computer vendor is not Dell - it's WB (White box), the hundreds of thousands of small mom and pop outfits selling 2 or 3 systems a week. These outfits can get to very low costs since they buy unfashionable components on the spot market. To make the point to one of my clients I recently put out a quote to 5 of these outfits locally - it was a pretty fuzzy quote looking for a desktop computer and asking them for recommendations. The low bid was a 200MHz pentium MMX with 8X CD, 64MB memory, 2 gig HD, sound card and the usual ports. cost - $210. that's right, $210. These folks are taking the bottom out of the second tier players. Dell is taking the top out of those same second tier players. Dell does not currently compete in that market and could not profitably either compete with or supply the white box players. This is a fascinating topic, but not one I see impacting Dell any time soon.