[ale] Anyone used Servers Direct?

[Mike Harrison]

On Fri, 3 Apr 2009, Jim Kinney wrote:

> 7.68% savings over the local supplier plus no local parts for later.
> If the savings was much higher (over 12%) then I would go with the
> mail order. Local supplier wins out most times for me.

In this case, I got my local dealer involved closer than I could with 
servers-direct, got a better config comparison and got some
bogus Intel "1st time customer (for a mod server) rebate"
and bought local: http://www.mtxsystems.com
from great guys I've been buying from since the early 1990's.
Which made my partner impressed that they were responsive
and clueful.

Off list I got 2 e-mails saying (re: Servers Direct)
"they'll ship you exactly what you order and pay for.. but are clueless"

I'll pay a little extra for a clue. Especially a local one.