VOIP Phone Suppliers
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Who do you guys use when looking at buying phones?
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Calling @JaredBusch
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amazon
and now we wait to see who points out that VoIP is a protocol and not hardware.
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For small orders of phones: Amazon
for larger there is a member here that I for the life of me can't think of his name right now that sells larger orders of stuff. -
Bite me.
VOIP Phone Suppliers
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Looking at bulk orders.
For a one off Amazon would work just fine, but they often have a hell of time with orders more than a dozen.
Plus Yealink's site says orders from non approved vendors may void warranty support.
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I just ordered a bunch of phones from Balticnetworks.com
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@dustinb3403 if Yealink what model and qty?
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We used to use VoipSupply.com but we are reviewing that as they were recently purchased by Sangoma.
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@bigbear said in VOIP Phone Suppliers:
@dustinb3403 if Yealink what model and qty?
At the moment 1, looking at over 100 "soon"
T48G or T48S
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@brianlittlejohn said in VOIP Phone Suppliers:
I just ordered a bunch of phones from Balticnetworks.com
Baltic is the cheapest I've seen. We used voipsupply when we bought all of our phones and didn't have any problems at all. Only used them because I didn't know about Baltic.
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Someone needs to talk to Baltic and get them participating here
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Voip Supply drop ships from Texas distributor that is not allowed to sell direct to end users (I asked them a week ago) I'm almost certain Baltic uses the same distributor but would have to ask @JaredBusch or someone who buys from them if it's a Texas address.
There's always over 200 of those on hand. I think every reseller gets there stuff from 1 of two places in the U.S.
Rather than inviting resellers I'd rather find a way to make things cheaper that are commonly promoted on ML.
I'd thought about charging a set markup and showing the wholesale price, then inviting actual distributors to offer a best price for easy sales.
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@bigbear Baltic Networks says they ship directly from the manufacturer in Texas.
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Same would go for Ubiquiti gear I reckon. We need to leverage community buy power. Distributors have restriction in place and can only sell to resellers, who have overhead and sales people that waste time and money.
I'd rather be paying $170 or less for a t48 than the $195 to over $200 they same to be going for everywhere. Just needs to be a shell company to broker orders and keep negotiating buy power.
I'll buy a pallet or two usually, leave it at the distributor and have then drop ship as I sell them. Getting maybe a 5% return is sufficient, I usually make 15% when selling direct to customers and still save them a little money.
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@dustinb3403 lol it's just a distributor, definitely same one VOIPSupply uses. The manufacturer is in China.
It's possible ALL heir stuff at Baltic comes from Texas distro, they are big. You'd never know there name. They aren't just IT.
They won't sell you anything unless it's high volume. Baltic is just drop shipping.
I could setup and do the same but really I would like to do something more transparent and community driven. I had posted about this a few weeks back.
You're not allowed to show the wholesale price but you could commit to a set markup. I think @JaredBusch liked this idea when I posted about it.
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@bigbear said in VOIP Phone Suppliers:
Voip Supply drop ships from Texas distributor that is not allowed to sell direct to end users (I asked them a week ago) I'm almost certain Baltic uses the same distributor but would have to ask @JaredBusch or someone who buys from them if it's a Texas address.
There's always over 200 of those on hand. I think every reseller gets there stuff from 1 of two places in the U.S.
Rather than inviting resellers I'd rather find a way to make things cheaper that are commonly promoted on ML.
I'd thought about charging a set markup and showing the wholesale price, then inviting actual distributors to offer a best price for easy sales.
Baltic has a large warehouse at their headquarters in the NW suburbs of Chicago, but yeah they also ship direct.
My clients in St Louis get next day ground shipping if it is in their warehouse.
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@jaredbusch so they stock Yealink there too?
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@bigbear said in VOIP Phone Suppliers:
@jaredbusch so they stock Yealink there too?
Did not check shipping on the last order.
