On Sep 16, 2005, at 2:12 PM, Matt Bazan wrote:
-----Original Message----- From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu] On Behalf Of Sean Figgins
Yes, it would be great, however it won't work.
Couple points. This is true typically in only the largest enterprise quotes. For the vast majority of medium and small business quotes NDAs are rarely used. And hey, if they are , that's why the process is anonymous ;-) Besides, in today's crap economy, is a vendor really going to come down on a client for violating an NDA and throw away $ $$$? I personally don't have experience with this but I'm willing to bet that most NDAs are more bark than bite.
You might want to be careful there... A friend of mine moved from Company A to Company B and told his new employer what discount he had been getting from Vendor C (suggesting that new employer could get a better discount) . Vendor C promptly sued him for breach of NDA. AFAIR, the case was settled, but Company B had some fairly high legal bills... The range of discounts that different customers get is quite surprising and often seems to change mainly upon negotiation skills and not necessarily amount of equipment purchased. Warren. -- With Feudalism, it's your Count that votes.