Wez Posted November 21, 2007 Share Posted November 21, 2007 Hey All, Posting this as couldnt believe it. We recently took delivery of 11 SUN v245 servers which had no DVD drives, we called SUN and ordered 11 DVD-RW drives, nice and quick service, they arrived today. I then asked how much we paid, over 200 quid each. This is the drive :- http://panasonic.co.jp/pcc/products/en/drive/internal/dmd/uj85j.html This is them for sale without a SUN face plate and box :- http://shopper.cnet.com/dvd-drives/panasonic-uj-85j-b/4014-3212_9-32309138.html Basically SUN have charged approx 175 for a plastic panel to match the front of the server and a SUN cardboard box. I am in the wrong job Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jake Posted November 21, 2007 Share Posted November 21, 2007 That's nothing; when I was at B&Q they paid IBM £3000 for a 1gb stick of RAM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedM Posted November 21, 2007 Share Posted November 21, 2007 That's nothing; when I was at B&Q they paid IBM £3000 for a 1gb stick of RAM Oh crap! How much should they be? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hiten55 Posted November 21, 2007 Share Posted November 21, 2007 That's nothing; when I was at B&Q they paid IBM £3000 for a 1gb stick of RAM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott Posted November 21, 2007 Share Posted November 21, 2007 In my work one of the printers powerpacks went down. We called in EDS as they are meant to deal with all this stuff and they sent out a quote in letter form. The cable was going to be charged at £185+VAT the labour would be £150+VAT for the first hour and £125+VAT for every 20 mins after that. We went onto the HP website to see about the powerpack and found it for £35. Bloody chancers! Scott =op Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michael Posted November 21, 2007 Share Posted November 21, 2007 Cisco do the same with flash memory, £200 from them, £5 from play.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hiten55 Posted November 21, 2007 Share Posted November 21, 2007 we had some turbo fitting traders on here a while back that did the same too (cant remember their name now ). they charged thousands to fuck an engine up when people could do that at home for free Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ark Posted November 21, 2007 Share Posted November 21, 2007 Cisco do the same with flash memory, £200 from them, £5 from play.com The stickers they put on them aren't free you know! And there has to be enough left over to pay for all those glass and steel offices in Bedfont Lakes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Class One Posted November 21, 2007 Share Posted November 21, 2007 This one time at Band camp....... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michael Posted November 21, 2007 Share Posted November 21, 2007 This one time at Band camp....... What happened? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carl0s Posted November 21, 2007 Share Posted November 21, 2007 Hey All, Posting this as couldnt believe it. We recently took delivery of 11 SUN v245 servers which had no DVD drives, we called SUN and ordered 11 DVD-RW drives, nice and quick service, they arrived today. I then asked how much we paid, over 200 quid each. This is the drive :- http://panasonic.co.jp/pcc/products/en/drive/internal/dmd/uj85j.html This is them for sale without a SUN face plate and box :- http://shopper.cnet.com/dvd-drives/panasonic-uj-85j-b/4014-3212_9-32309138.html Basically SUN have charged approx 175 for a plastic panel to match the front of the server and a SUN cardboard box. I am in the wrong job That's pretty standard practice really. IBM have similar markups for mini-pci wireless cards, DVDR/W drives, etc. All standard stuff. Dell will charge you £200 for a £70 hard drive. They will sell you a Quad-Core Xeon 2.whateverGHz server for £599 and charge you £599 for an additional processor of the same type as already included in the machine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustGav Posted November 21, 2007 Share Posted November 21, 2007 What happened? Not sure either, but if it involves a flute or a trombone I'm running... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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