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A Little Help Finding the Best Laptop Deals |
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I can often see a lot of laptop deals being advertised in the
newspapers. However most of these are bogus deals made by unscrupulous
dealers. You have to be careful with these laptop deals because you may
get a laptop that is barely functional.
Now, I’m not saying that good
laptop deals do not exist because you can identify some real good deals
if you have the patience to look around. These deals can give you the
best prices on good quality laptops. You can take advantage of the best
deals if you win the war of prices.
However, I have wondered why the market prices of laptops are far
lesser than when the laptops are bought from the dealers themselves. I
decided to find out how these laptop deals work. I was able to get some
understanding of laptop deals through Dell. Dell is considered as the
original company that brought us laptop deals. They were able to do it
by eliminating one segment of the supply chain.
They eliminated the segment that had the maximum overhead, minimum
direct association with the product and ate up the most profits. This
segment that is more commonly as the middleman is the retail segment in
industry terms. Inventory management and the need for an army of
retailers and their associates became redundant with the disappearance
of the retail segment.
This is how the retail segment works. The manufacturers are in a
position to pass on most of the savings from the retail segment to the
end consumer when they begin dealing directly with the consumer. The
manufacturer sends across merchandise to the distributor in a
conventional distribution set up. The distributor then adds a small
margin that depends on the demand for the product and passes it on to
the retailer or dealer.
The dealer will then add inventory charges, stock keeping charges and
yet another small margin that inflates the original price. As a result,
the product becomes far more expensive than the manufacturer intended
it to be when it finally comes into the hands of the end consumer. You
will have a quick and ready formula for great laptop deals if you
eliminate this part of the supply chain.
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