Re: Livingston ethics?

Joe Sasek (sasek@livingston.com)
Wed, 13 Nov 1996 08:09:40 -0800

The official word on the ISP pricing is that nothing has changed for U.S. ISP's.
Livingston makes this program available internationally though our authorized
distributor channel. We failed to consider that in the international market
there
are issues relative to import duties (country specific) that weren't taken into
account, and for that I apologize. To avoid futher confusion of
international ISP's
we've taken our "North American ISP price list" off of the web page. Rest
assured
the pricing that was listed is in fact official and will absolutely be
honored for
North American ISP's. For international ISP's the price will have to add country
specific duty, and shipping charges which will effect the pricing on a
country by
country basis. We are asking that international ISP's contact your "authorized"
Livingston reseller for your country specific pricing. A list of these resellers
by country may be obtained via our web page at www.livingston.com/ I apologize
for any confusion this may have caused.

Joe Sasek

At 11:12 PM 11/12/96 -0500, Jon Lewis wrote:
>On Tue, 12 Nov 1996, Brian Rice wrote:
>
>> This did not happen. It is a communication error of some kind, but
>> no way, no how, did anybody at this company (ignore my whitestone.com
>> mail header, it's just my remote connection) tell you "Hey, we decided
>> not to sell it to you, just to US. Sorry." At least not in those words.
>> What, we want to commit international suicide? I don't think so ...
>
>I was going to suggest Jukka email bri...but I figured he reads the lists
>too.
>
>> > US List US ISP Local ISP
>> > 94.000fim 51.000fim 84.000fim
>>
>> I was unable to make sense of this ...
>
>My guess is he meant he got the following prices from www.livingston.com:
>
>US List US ISP Best price he could get from his nearest distributor
>$20434 $11,086 $18260
>
>I went to the Livingston web site to see if I could confirm these prices,
>but funny thing, the ISP price list on the PM3 series seems to be gone.
>Is Livingston going to dump the ISP special prices before the PM3's even
>ship? That would reak of Bill Gates vaporware. Hype the product/prices
>to hurt the competition, and then jack up the prices. I hope this is just
>a case of Megazone forgetting to put the ISP prices link into the new
>pages, or me just being unable to find my way back to that page.
>
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