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Subject: Wholesale source for Bose electronics
Category: Business and Money
Asked by: eyeman-ga
List Price: $15.00
Posted: 14 Aug 2002 13:06 PDT
Expires: 13 Sep 2002 13:06 PDT
Question ID: 54640
As an Internet retailer, where can I get access to Bose (bose.com)
electronics at wholesale?  I do have a MI tax reseller license.
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Subject: Re: Wholesale source for Bose electronics
Answered By: journalist-ga on 14 Aug 2002 19:49 PDT
 
Greetings!  To get access to Bose products wholesale, I would suggest
you contact the Bose Corporation directly to inquire about their
wholesale programs.  While they may not offer one on the Wave Radio,
they may offer them on other products.

The Bose site gives customer service contact information only so I did
a domain registration search to find their corporate address and the
registrant is listed as:

   Bose Corporation
   The Mountain
   Framingham, MA 01701
   US

Also, in perusing the Bose site (www.bose.com), I chose the
"Employment" link which took me to "Careers."  In that section I
clicked on directions to find the corporate center is located on
Mountain Road because a regular search of online directories did not
produce a corporate phone number.  The directions also stated the R&D
Center was located on New York Avenue and the Reservoir facility was
located on Pennsylvania Avenue.  Armed with this information, I did a
search for an alternate phone number for Bose.  I found more than a
few using the Mountain Road search:

Bose Customer Service, 1 New York Ave.Framingham, MA 01701-9168 USATEL
(508) 766-1900 FAX (508) 766-1919

User Interface Design
Bose Corporation
The Mountain
Framingham, MA 01701-9168
 Phone: (508) 766-6950
Email: david_aurelio@bose.com

Bose Corporation
100 The Mountain
Framingham, MA 01701-8863
508-879-7330

Bose Corp. (R03122)
The Mountain 
Framingham, MA 01701-9168, 
USA 
Tel:508-766-6083
Fax:508-872-6541

Bose Corporation
Mountain Road
Framingham, MA 01701
Phone: 508-879-7330
Fax: 508-766-7083

Bose Corporation
The Mountain   Framingham, MA 01701
phone:  800-999-2673

As you can see, there are many numbers for the Bose Corporation.  In
an article I found titled "At Bose Corporation, Quality of Service is
Music to the Ears" there was mention of wholesale:

"According to Rob Ramrath, director of Corporate Information Services
for Bose, the shipping system is mission-critical as it drives all of
the operations at the company's distribution centers located in South
Carolina and Arizona. The system receives customer data from Bose's
SAP ERP system that is generated in Massachusetts and transfers it to
the shipping manifest system. The shipping system then couples with
Citrix®MetaFrame® to transfer customer order data through a wide area
network to the distribution centers. Then client terminals and
printers at the distribution centers automatically receive customer
order data. Once this data is received, pick lists are generated,
shipping labels and packing receipts are printed, orders are
filled,and the finished product is placed on trucks for delivery to
wholesale and retail customers."

So, they do wholesale, it's simply a matter of you contacting the Bose
corporate center and requesting a sales representative.  I also
noticed in many of the searches that there were "paid keyword" links
to other online shopping places that sold Bose products so, unless
there would be some reason you did not meet the Bose retailing
criteria, you should be able to apply as a wholesaler of their
products.

Most of the phone numbers above should get you to the corporate
offices where you may request to speak with a sales rep who should be
able to answer all your questions concerning how you may purchase Bose
products wholesale.  Good luck in your quest.


SEARCH TERMS and LINKS:

bose   [Google search]
://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=bose

Bose® Home Audio, Speakers, Home Theater, Music Systems, Wave ... 
http://www.bose.com/

Careers [link on Bose site]
http://www.bose.com/careers/

Directions [link on the Careers page in left column]
http://www.bose.com/company/directions/


Bose Mountain Road Framingham phone  [Google search]
://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=Bose+Mountain+Road+Framingham+phone

Bose Media Mate Computer Speakers
http://216.239.51.100/search?q=cache:aNDZKcbZ8R0C:mirror.bose.com/owners_support/owners_guides/og_mediamate.pdf+Bose+Mountain+Road+Framingham+phone&hl=en&ie=UTF-8

Alumni
http://www.tufts.edu/as/stu-org/hfes/alumni.html

Home and Garden Television
http://www.hgtv.com/HGTV/project/0,1158,BDRE_project_19416,00.html

Audio Equipment Manufacturers' Directory
http://www.candisc.com/ranger/manufac1.htm


Bose Mountain Road Framingham sales representative phone  [Google
search]
://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=Bose+Mountain+Road+Framingham+sales+representative+phone

Suppliers and Servicers
http://www.beaveramb.org/CoachAsst/Suppliers.htm

other
http://test.ieatpe.org.tw/trade_chance/other.htm

Bose Framingham wholesale
://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=Bose+Framingham+wholesale

At Bose Corporation, Quality of Service is Music to the Ears
http://216.239.33.100/search?q=cache:aUnI6ZznsggC:www.sitaranetworks.com/PDF/bose.pdf+Bose+Framingham+wholesale&hl=en&ie=UTF-8

Clarification of Answer by journalist-ga on 14 Aug 2002 19:53 PDT
On the last two links in my answer, I missed dividing the search by an
extra space and also neglected to add the second-to-last was a Google
search.  It should read like this:

Bose Framingham wholesale [Google search]
://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=Bose+Framingham+wholesale
 
At Bose Corporation, Quality of Service is Music to the Ears 
http://216.239.33.100/search?q=cache:aUnI6ZznsggC:www.sitaranetworks.com/PDF/bose.pdf+Bose+Framingham+wholesale&hl=en&ie=UTF-8


My apologies for the error.  : )
Comments  
Subject: Re: Wholesale source for Bose electronics
From: sublime1-ga on 14 Aug 2002 18:05 PDT
 
eyeman...

As an avid fan of the Bose Waveguide Radio, I have watched
Bose for some time now. It is my belief that they do not
wholesale to other dealers, as evidenced by the fact that
I have never seen their products in a retail store other
than their own. If you use the store locator on their website,
the only stores returned are 'Factory Outlets' or 'Showcase'
stores, run by Bose. They also do invitational showcases
of their products at hotels, and seem to rely a great deal
on direct marketing via mail and their website.

I hope you are able to find an answer in the affirmative,
as I shall then press you to obtain a discounted price for
a Waveguide Radio.....  :)

sublime1-ga
Subject: Re: Wholesale source for Bose electronics
From: readersguide-ga on 14 Aug 2002 18:16 PDT
 
I'm not an expert in Bose equipment, however, I did see about 3 to 5
Bose models at Best Buy last week, so I'd have to disagree with
sublime's comment above. That said, I wonder if you've tried
contacting Bose directly?

Bose "contact us"
http://www.bose.com/contact_us/

Best Buy Search for "Bose"
http://www.bestbuy.com/search/sr01.asp?m=0&SC=site&SV=Bose

Good luck! I have to say their two speaker surroundsound system was
amazing--but at a thousand bucks, a bit too pricey for me at this
time! :)

Regards,
readersguide
Subject: Re: Wholesale source for Bose electronics
From: stockzguy-ga on 14 Aug 2002 22:14 PDT
 
Bose products are also available @ The Wiz in NJ/NY area. I also am a
huge Bose fan and have tried to find refurbished speakers, etc., from
them, nothing doing. I even tried their website, but nothing is there.
I wonder what they do with all the returns, I hope they don't throw
them away. If anyone spots refurbed Bose products in Damark, etc,
please post a link, thankz.

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