[osol-mktg] Re: EBay it was: OpenSolaris Source Study Blog

[Sara Dornsife]

Selling of hardware on eBay is outside of my sphere of influence. I can 
hand the idea over to someone and let them know that there is interest.

The concept of an "open source" selling model is interesting....
Sara


W. Wayne Liauh wrote:

>Al Hopper wrote:
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><It's a pity that Sun shutdown the Sun EBay site - or, more accurately, selling AMD based systems via the EBay site. I'd like to see Sun put the low-end AMD based products back on EBay *and* a full set of accessory items like disk drives, disk drive brackets, RAM, graphics cards, ethernet cards etc. EBay is now an accepted part of the Etail landscape and much more "user" friendly than Sun Store, especially to the low-volume customer. Having a La Carte product/accessory selection is one of the main reasons for Dells success.>
>
>Your are exactly to the point.  Sun's sales people are definitely not equipped (nor paid) to handle low-priced items like the x2100.  Perhaps Sun should re-think its marketing strategy and recruit a bunch of Solaris old-hands to serve as VAR sellers (through eBay, etc.)
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>I hate to see a great product gets flushed to the toilet due to ill marketing/sales mechanism.
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