Anything else you buy for yourself is a minimum of 10 points over cost. Members are required to waive their commissions on personal purchases, but the total dollar amounts do count toward the Member's total sales numbers. Visa, Mastercard, American Express and Discover. You are responsible for preparing your orders with the appropriate product names, part numbers, the price to charge your customer, the bill to and ship to information, shipping preference and billing information. You also have to sign and return a commission report after we pay you, but that's it.
Margins vary widely according to situation.
There are times when you simply must compete with mail order to get in a client's door. In those cases, neither of us is probably making much money, but it is sometimes necessary and we do understand that. Due to unprecedented growth in the organization over the last 18 months, most historical data on this topic is now largely worthless. We can help you in the unlikely and unfortunate event that something were to go wrong with a piece of hardware or software that you sell. We also offer financial planning services through a special arrangement with Merrill Lynch.