Though it would be really interesting to see, if a company like Cisco or Juniper ever suffered a major data leak, what number of customers really do pay full list price for some stuff. "Yeppers, twenty 1310nm LX 10Gb SFP+ for $4800 each, sounds good. Where do we send the check?" On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 6:59 PM, Ricky Beam <jfbeam@gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, 18 Aug 2016 08:05:30 -0400, Tim Jackson <jackson.tim@gmail.com> wrote:
"As I'm sure you know, Arista is not the only manufacturer that has made this choice. Unlike our competition, we work to make our optics pricing competitive, but we'll never be as low as the "Taiwan specials" that you see floating around. I have another customer that was flashing white label optics that just made the decision to start using Arista labeled optics again because they were tired of bad quality."
I can't count the number of times I've seen this BS from vendors. I'm not buying crap made in a shack out in a rain forest. I'm buying the same f'ing optics from the same f'ing people as the vendor. (Finisar, Infineon, etc.) The only difference between my $10 optic and their $300 optic is the value in an EEPROM and the logo on the label.
(I know from experience, the numbers on the price sheet are inflated so sales can maintain the illusion of "deep customer discounts". As the saying goes, only an idiot pays list price.)