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In recent years there has been increasing demand from our customers to receive our purchase and sales agreements via email. You will be familiar with this paperwork from when you have either purchased equipment from us or we have bought your redundant gear. This paperwork is produced from a contract system which runs on our [...]
We at Computer Merchants, especially in the System i team, would like to sincerely thank each and every one of our customers who purchased a new System i 5xx from us. At the recent IBM Business Partner Awards, IBM awarded two very prestigious plaques to Computer Merchants. The first one being “Distributor Business Partner of [...]
Computer Merchants take a lot of pride in showing our Suppliers that they are valued by all of our staff. One way of showing this is how we strive to pay all of our suppliers before their payment terms. Very often this means we are paying for the equipment we sell to you before we [...]
Have you just replaced or upgraded your server? Are you changing platforms? Make sure you offer us computer hardware you no longer require – even if you think it won’t be worth much! We’ll be able to give you a quick answer on what your equipment is worth. We’re in regular contact with thousands of [...]
You can purchase pretty much anything IBM through Computer Merchants. And that includes IBM’s extensive range of Education courses. The courses can be done: in a classroom environment; via a DVL (Digital Video Library) in your own time; or via a course that is specifically tailored to suit your needs. Topics include IBM hardware and [...]
In August we sent out a “Specials email” to a few of you. As much as anything, the purpose of the email was to let you know that there are other products you can purchase from us aside from the midrange, mainframe and storage products we focus on. The products featured in the email included [...]
It was nice to catch up with so many familiar faces at Interaction 2006. This was the third year in a row Computer Merchants hosted a stand, displaying *noMAX, High Availability Software for the System i. The team from Computer Merchants put in a huge effort over the 3 days of the conference – thanks [...]
It was Wednesday morning and a customer in Fiji urgently needed a part that had to be installed that weekend. The part they needed was in our stock but when we checked all of our regular channels, no freight company could guarantee delivery to Fiji by Friday. Success Story About 6 years ago, we used [...]
Brendan comes initially form IT and wholesale distribution of IT products. More recently, Brendan was involved in direct sales and moved on to the sales management of a naitonal office machine supply and service company. He has joined our System i team and looks forward to meeting and helping people from the System i community. [...]
Pricing does NOT include the following: GST Delivery Installation Plain English Terms and Conditions Apply. Subject to prior sale. Call us on 1800 777 111 and quote “IBM Specials” for more information on the following items. IBM Complete Systems IBM 9406/820, 35/2000 cpw OS5.3 16GB Memory, 1.4TB disk, 5074 tower, redundant power, Ethernet/Raid/Twinax $29,600 IBM 750/750 [...]
Every 6 months, Computer Merchants have an offsite conference that we like to call “Kick-Off”. This is an excellent time for each of our internal teams to present what we have achieved over the last 6 months, our current goals, and what we are aiming to achieve in the next 6 months. It is a [...]
As you may know from previous newsletters, we can accept credit card payments. In order to do this though, a credit charge surcharge is applicable. We keep this surcharge as low as possible. Paying by Visa, Mastercard or Bankcard, there is a 2% surcharge on the total of your invoice including GST. Paying by American [...]
Pricing does NOT include the following: GST Delivery Installation Plain English Terms and Conditions Apply. Subject to prior sale. Call us on 1800 777 111 and quote “IBM Specials” for more information on the following items. IBM BladeCenter IBM 88524X BladeCenter H Chassis with 2x2900W Power Supplies – $5,200 IBM Blades IBM 8853L1M Dual Core [...]
Pricing does NOT include the following: GST Delivery Installation Plain English Terms and Conditions Apply. Subject to prior sale. Call us on 1800 777 111 and quote “IBM Specials” for more information on the following items. IBM Notebook IBM / LEN 065862M R60E Thinkpad with Celeron M processor 1.6GHz, 512MB Memory, 40GB HDD, CD-RW/DVD-ROM Combo, [...]
Have you had the air conditioning serviced lately? What happens if it fails? How will your insurance cover you? Cautionary Tale Recently while talking to a customer, I was told about a situation you never want to be in. The air conditioning system had failed in the IT room and yes, you guessed it, had [...]
Where do you go when your old parts fail? Sit back and have a think of what would happen if a server or tape library, or just a piece of older hardware fails. Success Story Recently a customer contacted Computer Merchants because they had a failed power supply on one of their machines. Within one [...]
Just like you, we rely on our IT systems to support our business objectives Without these systems we may as well turn off the lights and go home, as it is almost impossible for us to operate without them. In the mid 1990′s we decided that we needed to implement a Disaster Recovery plan. We [...]
Do you currently have Sun hardware you’re no longer using? Is it sitting in the corner and you’re wondering what to do with it? Or are you about to migrate to newer equipment and need to plan for the timely removal of the older hardware? Call us on 1800 777 111! We are always looking [...]
It’s a classic scenario – you’ve just upgraded your production system and one of your team suggests that you keep the old server for development. Of course, it’s a solid, reliable performer and hasn’t caused you much pain for the 5 or so years that it’s been running your production applications. It makes sense… until you [...]
In our last newsletter, we featured a number of Sun Specials that included system boards for larger Sun Fire machines. Quite a number of our customers were intrigued by the prices we had these system boards listed for. One customer even thought we had made a mistake with our Specials! Not only do these system [...]
Computer Merchants are always thinking of, and discovering, new and better ways to package and ship our products The way we pack our products is vital to us, to make certain that your equipment arrives to you in the best condition. We understand that lost or broken equipment can lead to costly downtime for you. [...]
Trivia According to research, the most productive workday is Tuesday. The least productive is Friday. The chairman of IBM in 1943 predicted that there would probably only be a world market for 5 computers. In 1970, chip maker Intel purchased a pear orchard to build their corporate headquarters on. In 2001, the 5 most valuable [...]
Hi! My name is Prue Gibson and I have been working at Computer Merchants for 6 challenging and enjoyable weeks. In this time I have had the opportunity to introduce myself to most of you and I look forward to saying hello to the remainder of you in the near future. Over the last 10 years [...]
Pricing does NOT include the following: GST Delivery Installation Plain English Terms and Conditions Apply. Subject to prior sale. Call us on 1800 777 111 and quote “Sun Specials” for more information on the following items. Sun Server Sun FIRE 3800, 4 x 900 Mhz CPU, 1xi/o board, 8 GB Memory 2 x FC Host [...]
Pricing does NOT include the following: GST Delivery Installation Plain English Terms and Conditions Apply. Subject to prior sale. Call us on 1800 777 111 and quote “IBM Specials” for more information on the following items. IBM pSeries Memory IBM #4452 IBM 2048MB (4x 512MB) DIMMs 208 Pin 8NS DDR SDRAM – $800 Suitable for [...]
