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Originally Posted by tlarkin
I've been in that biz before and I can tell you that your prices are way too high. For one, a company I used to work for, would custom build any system for parts + $100 labor. They could come in, pick out what they wanted or have us build it to spec and pick it up in a day, and it only cost them $100 on top of parts.
Your systems just plain are not worth it. I would recommend to anyone to buy from Dell over you. This is because I know they have a guaranteed warranty and if it breaks Dell can contract out someone locally to come out and fix it at their place.
I have said this a million times before, you don't make any money off of hardware sales. You make it all off of services and labor, and software sales.
If you really want to compete and make money you need to become a certified reseller of MS products as well as hardware companies, figure out a way to efficiently produce systems and sell them, and to top it all off offer some kind of warranty service.
What happens when someone buys a product from you and needs help to reinstall the OS, well they can't get online because they are crashed so chatting with you over the interwebs is not an option. I don't want them to call me and I recommended your product to them, and they have no way of calling you. I am going to say, just get a Dell and be done with it.
Just trying to give you perspective is all.
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Your right. Dells the best in the world!! I know you would love dell
People hello your forgetting something.
Dells and HP Cases are huge and are tower size. He should be selling them more because a dell pc with the specs he has would be 369 - 450$ and that be a big ugly tower that is brandmarked with dell all over it whilst this guys one is pretty cheap as hes putting all the hardware into a small case so IMO hes doing brilliant
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Suggestions:
1. If your trying to do media centre dont give them mobos with indergrated graphics or intel ones. I seen a mobo that gives ATI x700 prebuilt in one. If you can get them type it would be alot better.
2. Sell matching big 20 - 30inch monitors (sell in diff listings) with them as your going media centre and everone wants big monitors to watch the season finale of lost or greys anathomy.
3. Dont give them windows. Give them linux or Kubuntu and if they want windows pre-installed charge them the price of what windows your going to buy and add 5% onto it. (This also means you give them the cd/dvd aswell as the key (you have to stick it onto the case)