{"id":14365,"date":"2013-03-19T19:07:56","date_gmt":"2013-03-19T19:07:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=14365"},"modified":"2013-03-19T19:07:56","modified_gmt":"2013-03-19T19:07:56","slug":"non-usa-including-irish-businesses-can-bulk-order-microsoft-surface","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=14365","title":{"rendered":"Non-USA (Including Irish) Businesses Can Bulk Order Microsoft Surface"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mary Jo Foley has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/microsoft-now-allowing-business-customers-to-buy-surfaces-in-volume-7000012817\/\" target=\"_blank\">reported<\/a> (lots more information there than here) that businesses can now <a href=\"https:\/\/microsoftedweblive.com\/sites\/BHO\/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">buy<\/a> (direct from Microsoft) a bulk number of Surface devices.&#160; The choices vary by country:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/image36.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"image\" style=\"border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left: 0px; display: block; padding-right: 0px; margin-right: auto\" border=\"0\" alt=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/image_thumb36.png\" width=\"604\" height=\"74\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the USA you can buy the RT and Pro Surfaces.&#160; In Ireland you are restricted to the Surface RT:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/image37.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"image\" style=\"border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left: 0px; display: block; padding-right: 0px; margin-right: auto\" border=\"0\" alt=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/image_thumb37.png\" width=\"504\" height=\"385\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Note that when you add our VAT (a whopping 23%) then the Surface RT bulk order for business price is exactly the same as the consumer price (at least for the 32 GB RT tablet).<\/p>\n<p>The Pro is the one businesses will want so I don\u2019t see too much biz here for partners outside of the USA\/Canada until the Pro model spans other markets.&#160; There is no distribution channel that I know of for partner reselling so it won\u2019t really happen \u2013 what partner will buy at retail price to resell at uncompetitive prices?&#160; I expect HP\/Lenovo to dominate there until Dell has a suitable Intel model (their new one does not fly IMO).<\/p>\n<p>Go check out Mary Jo\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/microsoft-now-allowing-business-customers-to-buy-surfaces-in-volume-7000012817\/\" target=\"_blank\">article<\/a> if you want to learn more.<\/p>\n<div id=\"scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:efe48adc-6326-4a20-9a84-1ac4934f38f9\" class=\"wlWriterEditableSmartContent\" style=\"float: none; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px\">Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Hardware\" rel=\"tag\">Hardware<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Windows+8\" rel=\"tag\">Windows 8<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mary Jo Foley has reported (lots more information there than here) that businesses can now buy (direct from Microsoft) a bulk number of Surface devices.&#160; The choices vary by country: In the USA you can buy the RT and Pro Surfaces.&#160; In Ireland you are restricted to the Surface RT: Note that when you add &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=14365\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Non-USA (Including Irish) Businesses Can Bulk Order Microsoft Surface&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[180,109],"class_list":["post-14365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hardware","tag-hardware","tag-windows-8"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}