On Tue, 7 Feb 2012 18:46:10 -0500, "Existential Angst"
wrote:

Awl --

Ie, discounts....

If the base price of a machine is $90K, with about $15K in options (rigid
tapping, larger carousel, renishaw, programmable coolant, etc), how much
wiggle room is there in the bottom-line price?

How does one gracefully, visavis combattively, negotiate a discount?

Big machine vendors, like Haas, have substantial educational discounts, and
I would think that "we" could get at least a piece of that.

Iny thoughts?


Hey EA,

Can you wait until mid-September. IMTS2012 will see a LARGE selection
of HAAS product, and they love to have a SOLD sign on a lot of it
really early in the show to have other prospective buyers feel "Well,
at least one other buyer liked this model." And they have to pack it
all up after th show, so shipping may be another price reduction.

www.imts.com/

Good luck.

Brian Lawson,
Bothwell, Ontario.