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Old 06-26-2006, 11:27 PM   #11
SteveDallas
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Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Philly Burbs, PA
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Well I don't know that this is weird. Just stupid.

I needed to order some telephones. So I dropped an email to our sales rep at a particular company and he ordered them for me. (We have a special corporate account with this company. For reasons that make no sense to me our special corporate price is sometimes much higher than the prices in this company's retail stores; when this happens, I have to complain to our sales rep and he manually places the order some way that gets around this problem--what a stupid arrangement. Don't get me started. But that was the deal with these phones.) These are pretty generic basic $25 speakerphones, suitable for placement in a lounge, hallway, or other public area where they may be subject to vandalism or theft.

When my 8 telephones arrived today, they turned out to be non-basic four-line phones with built-in answering machines. At $185 a pop.

I swear, some days I want to lock all my vendors in a room and see who comes out alive.
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