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Politics : Ask Michael Burke -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Skeeter Bug who wrote (52200)	3/16/1999 2:08:00 PM
From: RealMuLan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

Some interesting quote from SI highlight page. "Dell Thread Goes Shopping " techstocks.com Some quote: <<William F. Wager, Jr. wrote about Gigabuys.. A PDA I bought recently for $600 is sold at the site for $965. They best get their pricing in order or sales will be slim.>> <<Dell has to get their components somewhere. And though the deal looks like a good fit, there is always the question of timing. IBM is also a boxmaker. Do they think that demand will soften so that they will have problems selling these components or using them for their own machines? Is the PC business becoming like a game of musical chairs, where every time the music stops, another chair gets taken away? One thing is for sure, PC makers are scrambling to make deals, branch out, restructure. The most peculiar thing about their initiative with the Gigabuys.com store, is that Dell, the manufacturer that is the undisputed champion of direct sales, is now lining up behind a host of other companies to become yet another online retail outlet for manufacturers of computer peripherals. All of these manufacturers of peripherals are looking at Dell's direct sales model and thinking that they should do the same thing themselves. Why don't we sell our products on our own? We can start online distribution. Heck, Dell is going to be selling 50% of their production on their Web site, soon. Why don't we do the same and cut out all the middle men? But in this case, the middle man is Michael Dell. >>