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Let Someone Else Take The Low Margin Deals Just Like CDW Does Or You Will Rapidly Discover That They Will Very Quickly Put You Out Of Business

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Undisclosed Integrator #1
Dec 21, 2021

Ultimately it is up to the integrator to decide what business is profitable and what they should take. Very often a manufacturer will bring us an opportunity that requires installation but has either no product margin or very little product margin and increasingly we are being forced to turn the business down.

There are many aspects of running an integration business around physical security that the manufacturers do not understand and they include licensing, permit, bonds, insurance and in some cases significant insurance requirement or long payment terms and if we are making 10 points on an install that will take 90 plus days to get paid on we will probably walk away from the opportunity.

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JH
John Honovich
Dec 21, 2021
IPVM

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UM
Undisclosed Manufacturer #3
Jan 31, 2022

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Daniel S-T
Dec 21, 2021

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JH
John Honovich
Dec 21, 2021
IPVM

******, *** ******* ***** ********** ***** pricing ** **** *** ******** **** thinks *** ********** ** ******* ****, i.e. *** ******** ******* ******* **** pay *** ********** ******** **** ******** relatively ***** ********** ****** *******.

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UI
Undisclosed Integrator #2
Dec 21, 2021

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Adam York
Jan 11, 2022

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** **** ** ***** *** ***** slammers, ************* **** ****** **** ** sell ******.

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* *** **** *** *** ****** that **** * ***** **** ** equipment (** ***** **** ***** ** both *********. *** *** ******** ****** have ***** ** ** ***** ****** too) **** ****** *** *** ******** if ****** ***** ***** *********. ***

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Rob Pearson
Jan 31, 2022
IPVMU Certified

*****\*** **** * *** ******* ********** find ***** ************* *** ******** **** the *************?

JH
John Honovich
Jan 31, 2022
IPVM

******* ** * ****** ****** *** leads *** *** ******* ** ******* integrators. ********* ***** ***** *** *** viewed ** ****** ********** ****** ** value *** *********** ** ****** ***********.

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