fluffypony
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So one of our clients (the guy is an absolute chop, but they have more money than brains) has just moved into a new office. We've delivered a stream of new PC's and donated their previous generation of PC's to schools in the Western Cape. The reason for the Big Revamp (tm) is to impress prospective clients - so the whole place is flooded with 21" and bigger LCD's, sleek black and chrome, etc. Now they want us to kit their two "chill rooms" out with big screen TV's (56" or so), surround sound, etc. so they can watch movies and cricket (they're BIG cricket fans) and for general stuffing around during the day. They also want their main boardroom and 3 sub-boardrooms to be kitted out with video conferencing kit. Pinnacle has us sorted for the video conferencing, and they could actually sort us out on the rest, but I want to know what our options are.
I don't want to stick Logitech Z5500's in, as the client is willing to pay for discrete audio (NAS, Yamaha, Sony, whatever), but I do want to make a little money. Most of our money comes from the labour with this client, as they are very shrewd and WILL shop around, so I have to come in at the same price as retail and online stores. This begs the question, then, where do Audio Vision Concepts and Foto Cats and all of the retail stores get their AV equipment from? Surely there must be an AV importer/distributor market like the PC importer/distributor market?
I don't want to stick Logitech Z5500's in, as the client is willing to pay for discrete audio (NAS, Yamaha, Sony, whatever), but I do want to make a little money. Most of our money comes from the labour with this client, as they are very shrewd and WILL shop around, so I have to come in at the same price as retail and online stores. This begs the question, then, where do Audio Vision Concepts and Foto Cats and all of the retail stores get their AV equipment from? Surely there must be an AV importer/distributor market like the PC importer/distributor market?
