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Soon I plan to possibly open a custom built PC business but could anyone show me a few places they've had experiences with? I'd like to see where to set the prices for competition
It's a tough biz. Prices competition is dangerous. I've been selling white box and parts to retail stores and engineering companies for years. (1K+ range) Make sure your inventory management and prepare your warranty and support. Good luck to your biz.
If you want to get out of the herd then I think you should put higher prices and give new things to the customers. There are lots of people who would like to spend money on their PC.
I think if you can offer expertise and good service to your customers that might be more attractive than competing by price. Maybe try to think of ways you can add value and charge a bit more for it.
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I think people would be willing to spend extra for their computer if they percieve there is value for their money. For example I think one of the best services you could offer is for your customers to realize you are working for them to experience trouble free computing. Most people who have even limited computer experience know what a headache it can be to troubleshoot computers, and most people value their time. One idea...maybe you could have a list of options for people to choose from, as to how they want their computer set up...not as an added charge, but just to show you offer more personalized service...for example one option on the list might be to set up the C partition on their hard drive for the operating system only, ...change the default mail folder and internet explorer favorites folder to a different partition so no data is stored on the C drive. Explain this method allows a customer to easily restore their C drive without losing any data. All the customer has to remember is to store data on the other partition. Some of the people new to computers might not understand everything you offer, but they will understand if they shop elsewhere, they might be missing out on an option that could result in a better computing experience. Another idea might be to offer to install a copy of Norton Ghost on the customer's computer with a backup of the C drive already stored on that same computer, and with easy instructions on how a customer could use Norton Ghost to make regular backups of their C drive as they add more programs to it so if they have to restore their C drive they won't have to go back as far. Anyway, the main idea is instead of competing on price, offer services to set you apart. That will probably be less of a headache than trying to compete with the others on price. Do a search on google for "perceived value" http://www.google.ca/search?num=100...alue%22&spell=1
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If you're targeting gamers, or high end users then you'll be fine.
Most branded gaming PC are expensive, so you can compete with XPS, or alienware, or ibuypower, etc.
But, if you trying to target regular home or office user, you're not going to do well
Most low end branded PC are a lot cheaper then the cost of custom built up with the same hardware specs.
They (company such as DELL, HP, Acer, Toshiba, etc) got subsidy from software companies like Symantec, M$, AOL to get their trial OEM installed
