What about proposing a minumum purchase level before the discount becomes applicable? Such as "For all Tier 2 members who buy more than X amount per purchase, they will be entitled to a discount of Y%"
This works well at my company and would be beneficial to all parties. Just MHO. ~Mike On Wed, 2005-07-09 at 15:54 -0600, Jarrod Major wrote: > On Wednesday 07 September 2005 3:13 pm, Shawn wrote: > > I was in Memory Express today and they informed me that they no longer > > offer CLUG members a discount. This was news to me, and I let them know > > that I'm the guy who should really know these things... > > That's too bad, I had hoped this would work out for them and us. > > > So, a phone call was made to one of the owners to confirm this. So, > > effective immediately, we no longer get a discount. They say the margins > > just aren't there anymore. > > This was the main reason why the discount was so small in the first place. I > had hoped that once members started purchasing stuff from them, they could > see how much our members were affecting their bottom line. Perhaps they did > but in a negative way. I always tried to plug them as a sponsor at meetings > so they got at least that much advertising out of us. > > > We may do something with them in the future, but they want us to come up > > with a proposal and submit it to them. The exec will put this right at the > > top of our priority list.... maybe... maybe not.... :) > > I hope that this does not end up as a backlash against Memory Express. They > were not obligated to give us any discount and it was a damn nice thing they > did. I hope that those that were able to take advantage of the discount will > let Memory Express know how much it was appreciated. > > This is one of those "burning bridges" things. If this results in negative > sentiment about MemX, then I think it would be safe to say that they won't > ever deal with us again. However, if we are able to pitch this the right way > with enough incentive to do it, maybe we can swing something in the future. > Something like a group purchase of some hot ticket hardware item. > > Anyway, I thought this needed to be said. Our sponsors don't get much from us > except patronage. The more we can do this the more sales they can make off > us. It irks me that some people believe that these discounts are owed to > them. It was always meant as a bonus for our Tier 2 members. And I know that > some of our sponsors have no regard for Tier level at all, if you mention > CLUG they will give a discount regardless. That's a really nice thing that > they do. > > Don't take them for granted... > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
