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>On Jun 21, 2:02pm, Robert Dewar wrote: >} In the case of disks, >} providing a multi-year guarantee is in itself very expensive, and markups >} of this type are pretty much standard. >}-- End of excerpt from Robert Dewar > >I know squat about disk pricing, so this discussion is interesting to me, >but I think the above point is frequently overlooked (judging by how often >I overlook it myself). The level and length of support that IBM provides >is one reason why many of us have bought this "overpriced" hardware in the >first place. Does anyone have an educated ballpark figure regarding the >mean per pad cost for support over three years? > >Eugene Fiume. > > I just investigated this on a customers behalf, the cost of onsite IBM warranty for a tp360cse was about 10% of list price. John John Allman Plexxus Technologies Inc. Markham (Toronto), Ontario