TAIT members meet to discuss FAIITA proposal

 As per the directives from FAIITA on the proposed protest to refrain from purchasing fresh stocks effective from December 15th 2014 onwards, TAIT convened a meeting with its members to have a discussion on the issue. K. R. Chaube, TAIT President briefed the members about the predatory pricing at which e-commerce portals are selling their goods. Champakraj Gurjar, Regional Representative, - India West, FAIITA updated the members on the series of dialog FAIITA had with the Vendors, National Distributors at National level.

The meeting concluded that TAIT will reaffirm its stand to support proposed refrain from purchase from 15th December 2014 and will commit to show solidarity on the issue with the fellow IT associations across the country. It was also opined by the advisory members that Debit note will not be raised on T1 Channel Partners (National Distributors) by the T2 (Sub distributors, Regional distributors) / T3 & T4 (Dealers, System Integrators, Retailers) on the price disparity of their stocks.
There will also be efforts to convince T1 Channel Partners to take back their unsold stocks by OEM/Vendor due to these concerns. The companies from which purchase will be refrained are Apple, Dell, Lenovo, HP, Acer, Asus, Toshiba, Canon, D-Link, Ricoh, Epson, Brother, Samsung, A DATA, IOMega, Seagate, WD, Hitachi, SanDisk, Transcend, Kingston, BenQ, LG, Viewsonic, AOC, Logitech, iBall, Intex, F&D, TPLINK, Netgear, Sennheiser, Cooler Master, Sony, Digilink and Portronics. The members are also advised to share the names of OEM/Vendors that have predatory pricing issue for their products through e-commerce portals.

TAIT members who are the Sub-Distributors, Regional Distributors are advised to defer their payments to National Distributors. A discussion with National Distributors led by Parag Shah and Pravin Dhoka will soon be followed.