When do you start looking?

[tim123]

Just trying to encourage people to get on the gravy-train while they can.

SAP is the market for the future.

Too bloody true.

Went to a sister company last week. Has 250 (white collar) people and makes a dozen sepecialist products that sell in the thousands. Only about 20 of that 250 are development engineers (8 writing software). (Manufacturing is outsourced to a third wold country)

I wondered what the other 230 did and blagged a trip round the building. Got to a cubicle of 6 people and was told, "this is our department for SAP training". WTF there are nearly as many people training the sales/marketing/accounts/CS staff how to use a frigging computer program than there are developing new products.

I'm in the wrong game.

tim

[tim123]

Do they make vacuum cleaners by any chance?

No. Surely they sell in the hundreds of thousands. (I meant thousands literally, as in less than 10,000)

tim

[Ardesco]

Millions, I would think.

Judging by the number of dead Dysons at the Civic Amenity Site...

They aren't that robust are they, we are on our second one now and it has nearly given up the ghost. Still works well but all the bits are starting to fall off it now.

[Ardesco]

well with no bags to flog to the unsuspecting consumer they have to reduce the bild quality of the hoover so that they can flog replacement hoover parts instead!!


Simple business economy and hats off to the man that invented a vacuum that works better than your standard bag one, yet gets the company even more revenue than the ones needing bags because you have to buy replacement parts that are more expensive than bags and are only manufactured by the company that made the damn thing in the first place!!!!

(selling it as a cheap but better option because it needs no bags was genius marketing too, if only your poor average consumer knew the real cost of keeping one of these things going...)

[tim123]

don't you mean more expensive but better.

How many other vacuums cost over 200 notes?

tim

[Ardesco]

I didn't pay that much for mine, was about £140.


You need to shop around a bit

[tim123]

Of the 12 Dyson (sic) that Argos sell, only 3 are under 200 quid (one by one penny). The only one under 175 is a cylinder and I was instructed to buy an upright.

So yes, you can get a Dyson for under 200 quid, but only just.

tim