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Thanks for info, Jeff! That "fine line" between "unprofessional and immoral" vs. "anti-trust / illegal" has recently come up on MI list, also. Still thinkin' about that... Tough nut to crack, it appears. | -----Original Message----- | From: midrange-l-bounces+jt=ee.net@xxxxxxxxxxxx | [mailto:midrange-l-bounces+jt=ee.net@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Jeff Bull | Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2004 11:25 AM | To: 'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion' | Subject: RE: Tattoos & hugs: Malcolm's at it again! | | | my pennyworth ... perhaps an analogy ... | | The HAL Motor Corporation sell their cars via a dealership network; | The salesmen at the dealerships do their business and sell cars to Joe | Public, get their margin, make a profit and a living. | The dealer-salesman encounters a potentially lucrative little | deal selling a | couple of dozen HAL TurboVVTIs to a business in his patch who are | replacing | their company car fleet. | HAL get wind of the deal through the normal dealership | relationship, and see | the potential for cutting out the middleman and getting a bigger slice of | the cake, not only that, but also try to get the fleet manager to buy into | their car maintenance scheme, auto club membership ... | This is the kind of behaviour that can really wind up a | dealership, in more | ways than one. | | Have I personally experienced this? No, I can't say that I have, though I | have heard stories. Is it anti-trust / illegal? Ask a lawyer, but IMHO it | is unprofessional and immoral. | | This I'm sure we have all experienced ... HAL running a 'sale' of | it's cars | at less than the minimum price it has agreed with the dealership network. | | Kind regards, | | Jeffrey E. Bull | OS400 Software Support Consultant | | IBM Certified Systems Expert, iSeries Technical Solutions | IBM Certified Systems Specialist, AS/400 System Administration | | * +44 [0] 149 454 9533 swb. +44 [0] 149 454 9400 | mbl. +44 [0] 786 750 4961 fax. +44 [0] 149 454 9454 | web. http://www.itm-group.co.uk | | ITM Group Ltd, Latimer Square, White Lion Road, Amersham, Buckinghamshire, | HP7 9JQ, United Kingdom | | | -----Original Message----- | From: jt [mailto:jt@xxxxxx] | Sent: 03 March 2004 14:36 | To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion | Subject: RE: Tattoos & hugs: Malcolm's at it again! | | | | -----Original Message----- | | From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx | | [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Reeve | | Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2004 6:11 PM | | | And before somebody from IBM tells me it's my job to "improve the | | image" by | | educating customers, I want to know why tier 1 business partners | | show up in | | my big accounts with a bogus value-add as soon as the IBM | branch gets wind | | of the deal. And I want to know why tier 1 accounts can sell into my | | accounts but I can't sell into theirs. | | | | Doesn't anybody in IBM know how to spell "anti-trust" these days? | | I'm not that familiar with Taft-Hartley, other than know it | exists. I also | don't know about IBM's tier system of ISVs. I understand the problem, but | how is it related to anti-trust?? Or is it in quotes because this practice | causes such Negative-Trust amongst the ISVs?? (And read, last night, Mr. | Zollar like other iSeries Heads is Counting on ISVs and BPs to do MOST of | the hard work of GETTING iSeries some visibility.) | | Also, Reeve, do you know if this is a widespread problem or just something | you "happen" to run into (occasionally?)?? | | j | | | _______________________________________________ | This is the Midrange Systems Technical Discussion (MIDRANGE-L) | mailing list | To post a message email: MIDRANGE-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx | To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, | visit: http://lists.midrange.com/mailman/listinfo/midrange-l | or email: MIDRANGE-L-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx | Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives | at http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l. | | | ________________________________________________________________________ | This e-mail has been scanned for all viruses by ITM. The | service is powered by MessageLabs. 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