Is this cheap or what?

Corsair TW3X4G1333C9 , XMS 3 , with heatsink , 2 x 2Gb/2048mb kit , ddr3-1333 ( PC3-10666 ) , CL9 , 1.6v - 240pin - lifetime warranty

2 x 2gb/2048mb gives it away.

Enjoy your 2gb stick :D.
 
CranialBlaze said:
What they doing is a CSV like import directly off the suppliers price list, if you open those up they have 2 different product codes, Sybaritic seems to be getting lazy as their unsorted list just gets bigger and bigger.
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Yip. Thing is, that product can be found for R700 less elsewhere anyway. :)

These suppliers need a webservice offered to clients where we can query pricing directly.
 
TheRift said:
Yip. Thing is, that product can be found for R700 less elsewhere anyway. :)

These suppliers need a webservice offered to clients where we can query pricing directly.
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That would be useful but the problem is the suppliers only update the price list every so often, the most recent prices are on their systems, so if you were to query a price then they would have to contact the suppliers first to make sure the most recent price list is giving the most current price.
 
I'm talking about the likes of Frontosa, Rectron, etc, having that service. I'm not talking about them simply putting the price list information online through a webservice, I'm talking about them quoting pricing directly from their stock software/database.
 
TheRift said:
I'm talking about the likes of Frontosa, Rectron, etc, having that service. I'm not talking about them simply putting the price list information online through a webservice, I'm talking about them quoting pricing directly from their stock software/database.
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Thatsa great idea, but good luck getting them to do something like that, not to mention the shear volume of bandwidth that would use, not exactly a great cost effective idea, especially for frontosa their xls file is already almost 8mb, imagine the size of the database that you wold be accessing for such information plus the network jam you wold encounter if many other stores are accessing that database at the same time.

A spreadsheet may not be the most accurate method but its still the most cost effective and simplistic method, especially considering online stores use different shopping carts, the stores would then need to write scrips to then work with this webservice, increasing server load for the site and increase load and bandwidth consumption with the suppliers.

Then you gotta consider that the supplier use different POS software so they have different databases so webserivices would need to be written for each POS and something like that would be in the 10's of thousands to setup, from a business point its simply stupid to even try and near impossible to get ever single supplier to comply especially a company as stuffed as rectron.
 
I wouldn't judge the bandwidth off the size of a excel file.

You're snowballing. If one offers a webservice it doesn't all of a sudden mean every single thing in the world has to suddenly change. Those who want the webservice have to change their stuff, those who don't just don't.

I think you're taking one of those long approaches to the solution.
 
TheRift said:
I wouldn't judge the bandwidth off the size of a excel file.

You're snowballing. If one offers a webservice it doesn't all of a sudden mean every single thing in the world has to suddenly change. Those who want the webservice have to change their stuff, those who don't just don't.

I think you're taking one of those long approaches to the solution.
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Not a long approach, a real world approach, the idea only works if at least a majority of the suppliers go with the idea, if only 1 does then their is no point in it, for stores that would only help with certain products then and with brands like Asus that you can get at almost all the suppliers and at different prices your still going to end up calling around to compare prices and check for stock.

If online stores want to take full advantage of it then a webservice api directly linking into their product database would be the best.

Your biggest problem still remains the suppliers willing to spend money on something that from their point they don't need, its an extra expense that gives them little to no short term or long term benefits or even any extra income. They already have email, phone and instant messenger, so from their point how does it benefit them to spend 10's of thousands on a service that will effectively only end up costing more money int eh future and hinder other services like email and msn unless they put it on a dedicated internet line which again is another expense.

In practice is a great idea, in the real world its simply a waist of money that could be better spent on other things.
 
Points taken, but what I'm getting at is that you must be able to see the benefit in it if it was available?
 
TheRift said:
Points taken, but what I'm getting at is that you must be able to see the benefit in it if it was available?
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As i said its a great idea, and the benefits would be awesome, the ability to never worry about confirming prices, prices always being accurate, stock levels readily available without having to call and ask, it would be awesome, would save up so much time with updating prices allowing you to spend more time doing other things like adding stock, helping customers and whatever else and hey if the suppliers do set it up i will be from the 1st in line to test it out.

The biggest advantage of that would be the stock, CMS stores can be set to disable the selling ability of a product out of stock and replacing add to cart with a notify request button, so no more wasted orders, if the suppliers out of stock the end user cannot elect o order the product and you do not have to email them saying "sorry out of stock, would you like something else" if the supplier does not have it they cannot add it to their cart and if they really want only that they can then elect o be notified of when stock does return or just choose something that is in stock.
 
Wrong country for it to be practical though, but dreams are dreams. Another really sweet benefit is that darn telkom bill having to call several suppliers to find something. :D

Either way, Telkom's getting richer. :D

The stock thing would be fantastic, not even for just online purchasing. Customers on the phone, the best you want to do is make that sale on the call, but you have to hang up or switch and put the person on hold in order to call around to confirm stock. In the time it sometimes takes to tell someone you'll call them back to the time one gets back to them is enough to probably find the product available in another store.

The other advantage maybe for the supplier is less lines waiting, more throughput.

But, ja, probably the wrong place to build something like this, but anyway.
 
TheRift said:
Wrong country for it to be practical though, but dreams are dreams. Another really sweet benefit is that darn telkom bill having to call several suppliers to find something. :D

Either way, Telkom's getting richer. :D

The stock thing would be fantastic, not even for just online purchasing. Customers on the phone, the best you want to do is make that sale on the call, but you have to hang up or switch and put the person on hold in order to call around to confirm stock. In the time it sometimes takes to tell someone you'll call them back to the time one gets back to them is enough to probably find the product available in another store.

The other advantage maybe for the supplier is less lines waiting, more throughput.

But, ja, probably the wrong place to build something like this, but anyway.
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What would be a good cost saving effort and i'm sure the supplier could afford this would be the VOX service, normal house unit is R49 per month and a PABX unit is R449, but with that if you and you client have VOX units calls between the 2 are free so you could call the suppliers as much as you want for as long as you want for that R49 per month and visa versa, but again the implementation sit eh problem.
 
There are many VOIP solutions available, but as with the other solutions it comes down to bandwidth and cost of it. It still needs a ADSL solution. We currently run a few fixed 2MBit lines at the office to cover our call volume and this costs a fortune.
 
Dudes, here's what i sent to Graeme

"hi, before making payment i'd like to confirm that it is in fact a 4GB kit (2x2GB)"

And he replied

"yes, that is indeed the case"

So i did the transfer, let's see what it is when it arrives
 
Definitely let us know. If that's the price then I'm buying a few kits for myself.
 
Oh, and let's hope Graeme didn't confirm by looking at the description on his own site.
 
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