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   LiQUiD PlASMA, 28 Nov 2005 @ 5:32pm

   
   

   yea..

   They've been doing this for nearly a year now, old news if you ask me.

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   Dwight Raley, 28 Nov 2005 @ 6:29pm

   
   

   Re: Dell Goes Retail? Is The Devil Buying Mittens?

   Not sure what you have in mind by using the term "channel conflict." Dell currently has none--they have no channel. Even this limited Costco line doesn't constitute a channel.
   
   Dell won't be running into the traditional channel management problems. Few (if any) companies have started by selling directly, and _then_ tried to grow a channel organization.
   
   Odds of Dell doing it successfully? 40-1 against.
   

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   Jimmx2, 28 Nov 2005 @ 6:38pm

   
   

   dell retail....

   ok....i dont get it...theres been a DELL STORE....as in like a cell phone strore type place in our arera for a few years.....and costco been selling them here for years too....!

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   Mike (profile), 28 Nov 2005 @ 6:50pm

   
   

   Re: Dell Goes Retail? Is The Devil Buying Mittens?

   Right. That's the point. They don't have any channel conflict by doing it this way.

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   heather, 28 Nov 2005 @ 8:32pm

   
   

   Re: yea..

   actually since at least 2003 maybe 2002, i used to work at dell and had customers call and say "i can get a better deal at costco"

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   Anonymous Coward, 29 Nov 2005 @ 2:00am

   
   

   Read TFA

   "Costco has resold Dell systems on its Web site in the past, and has promoted Dell products with in-store displays in Costco stores, Maher said. But now customers can take Dell PCs right off Costco's store shelves and bring them home, an expansion of the existing relationship between the two companies, he said."

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   kingmanor, 29 Nov 2005 @ 3:20am

   
   

   Less of a human being??

   OK I know this site embellishes a bit and that's part of why I read it as opposed to the many many many other tech news sites. So I read your post update and saw that NONE of the comments were as bad as you made them out to be. They just meant you should do some research before you claim a company is doing something new, and you know what? They're right, you should! It can't be that difficult considering you link to your own old posts all the time. ::sarcasm alert:: Real professional way of dealing with criticism. Do you react that way on your paid Coporate Intelligence? What are you 10 years old now? I really expected better of you.

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   Mike (profile), 29 Nov 2005 @ 3:41am

   
   

   Re: Less of a human being??

   Heh. Apparently I can't win either way. :) The update note was a joke, but I sometimes forget how hard it is to get that across.

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   devboy00, 29 Nov 2005 @ 3:51am

   
   

   Re: Less of a human being??

   Pfft. Well *I* still like you.
   80)

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    kingmanor, 29 Nov 2005 @ 4:09am

    
    

    Re: Less of a human being??

    Yeah I didn't mean to pounce but you couldn't tell if you were being playful or just brooding and pissed off. Thats one of the drawbacks of communicating in just text, mainly that its sometimes difficult to determine the tone of voice the author meant. I try to put that ::sarcasm alert:: if I want to make sure I'm not misunderstood, but it would be easier if I didn't have to.

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    Anonymous of Course, 29 Nov 2005 @ 10:34am

    
    

    Re: Less of a human being??

    Sarcasm is lost on the very young- and Americans.

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