Team Buying for crack racks?

[Train]

If you ever noticed most computer catalogs the price goes down after a certain quantity, and if you buy a dozen, it starts to save a lot of money?

what if we get like a dozen people (or more), agree on a rack, and buy each part in bulk, saving everyone money?

anyone interested?

 

[dkappos]

I don't know the shipping costs in the USA but I suppose that if you add the cost of another one shipment then you won't save that much.

 

[blade47]

I've notice at alot of places when you add items to the shopping cart the shipping prices don't go up that much. As long as they aren't heavy. Example would be like having 6 cpus instead of 1. The weight and size of the package isn't going to be much more so alot of times the shipping won't be much higher.

That's just what I think. I'm sure Russ can tell you for certain.

 

[dkappos]

I am not talking about this. The company that you are going to buy from will send all the goods to one recipient who (ar anybody else) then will pay again to send the parts to the other members. If you buy CPUs or memory then it is ok but for anything else..

 

[blade47]

Ok I see your point. Still I'd like to know if it would save everyone any money or not.

 

[Train]

it depends on the amount of the discount, youd have to figure it out for each item, if it is a big discount for each item, you could justify buying it then redistributing it, if not, have everyone buy that part seperate.

or if you buy a lot of items together, say like 12 mobos with 12 cpu's and 12 cheap vid cards, and all that came in one big box, you should probably have saved enough to move 11 of them into seperate packages to redistribute, and still having saved over each person buying seperate.

 

[NakaNaka]

I'll be in on a dozen T-Birds

 

[LeBlatt]

LOL ! Distributed Shopping !

 

[Slahr Dzhe]

Makes sense.. this is the Distributed forum. =P

SD