Re:Ask HN: What to do about key supplier TRIPLING their pric...
by brudgers on Friday October 28, 2016 @12:58AM
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To me, the place to start is with the consideration that if a key vendor isn't turning a healthy profit then that key vendor is likely to go away. The second thing to do is run the numbers and determine if the new pricing means shutting down your business, seriously impacts the odds of future success, or is rounding error.
The third thing, is to act on the results of your analysis and if it's not time to shutter the doors come up with a plan for mitigating the effects of the dependency.
From the vendor's point of view, your company wasn't pushing a renewal deal through and therefore the vendor's revenue stream has been uncertain. It is also possible that over the past year the vendor has repositioned itself toward a different scale of customer and is taking their product in a different direction.
The third thing, is to act on the results of your analysis and if it's not time to shutter the doors come up with a plan for mitigating the effects of the dependency.
From the vendor's point of view, your company wasn't pushing a renewal deal through and therefore the vendor's revenue stream has been uncertain. It is also possible that over the past year the vendor has repositioned itself toward a different scale of customer and is taking their product in a different direction.
Maybe the cost can be passed along: http://jacquesmattheij.com/Double+your+price+%28and+no%2C+I%...