Well... it was about time. They stopped producing 7" laptops (known as NetBooks) as people prefer brands with a slight larger screen size. Most makers are coming out with 10" netbooks which are more convenient to use and with a more proper keyboard and screen size. The Netbooks market was evolutionary, but unfortunate for us - the retailers - was a disaster. Imagine selling a netbook with a profit of ~€15 (believe it or not). I registered some netbooks on my website when their profit was around €60 but when i saw Netbooks being sold at local kiosks (that's not a joke) for €20 on top of the wholesale price, i took them off and desided that i am not into that kind of miserable business. However, this trend happens to shift even to high end systems as shop chains sell "boxes" without any hassle about setting them up, installing additional software and delivery - so they reduce their margin to supermarket levels. I manage to survive in this crewel business as new laptops need to be "serviced" to be fully functionable - meaning that you have to remove all the bogus software which come in the form of adware on each new laptop and to be replaced by proper software. Each laptop/computer goes thru a 2 hour programming sequence before delivered. That's what keeps my old clients away from 'mass sales'. Even with strong competition, due to respect to towards my clients, i figured an extremely low percentage to keep my website prices way lower than chained shops - with all the consequences towards me. As sales price is very close to wholesale price, additional requests for software will not be covered for free as part of sale. I'll be charging something like €80 on top of laptop/computer price for setup+delivery reasons or if not needed, the client will get the laptop boxed for him/her to setup :)I am just finding ways & motives to keep the quality of service to the desired levels :) Feed me back !
Read more about netbook sales at: http://www.internetnews.com/hardware/article.php/3824236
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