Latest Grey Market articles

Avaya axes VARs' right to MDF in quality drive

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Partners must prove they deserve marketing moolah as vendor lines up to expel 500 EMEA resellers

04 Nov 2011

NVIDIA sounds grey-market alarm

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Chip maker warns VARs against sourcing products from unauthorised suppliers

02 Sep 2011

Fraudsters are cleaning up

Microsoft sues US employee over "$2m fraud attempt"

Channel incentive abuse costing vendors billions

A briefcase full of cash

Research from AGMA suggests abuse of channel incentive programmes is bigger problem than previously believed

28 Apr 2011

AMD joins anti-grey fight

Warranty fraud battle begins

Tough Avaya eyes grey market clean-up

Vendor pulls no punches at annual EMEA partner get-together

12 Nov 2010

Cisco squares up to unauthorised market

After suffering £12m fraud, vendor's European channel head says partners are demanding a tough stance

14 Oct 2010

Cisco rocked by £12m warranty fraud

Channel shocked at scale of scam as fraudsters are brought to book

07 Oct 2010

Pivotal Oracle trademark case set for court

Independent reseller M-Tech prepares for showdown with vendor giant after the Court of Appeal orders trial

07 Sep 2010

M-Tech given Court of Appeal boost in Sun row

Trademark battle set for trial in landmark case for the industry

24 Aug 2010

AMD joins anti-grey fight

Chip maker becomes latest big-name vendor to join AGMA

11 May 2010

Big Blue fights the grey matter

IBM sees progress as it uses price harmonisation to tackle grey market

23 Mar 2010

Second-hand tape storage security risk

While used tapes may offer budget benefits to IT departments, the security risks could cost firms in the long haul

09 Nov 2009

Warranty fraud battle begins

Vendors urged to take a tough line with VARs and end users abusing warranty and services entitlements

26 Oct 2009

Kyocera launches attack against third-party toner

VARs tempted back to branded toner with range of new initiatives

04 Aug 2009

An interview with the VAT man

A solicitor’s viewpoint for resellers that find their tax situation under scrutiny

03 Jul 2009

Waste not, want not

Anja Ffrench responds to Dell's move to forbid exports of defunct computer equipment to non-OECD countries

27 May 2009

Grey is the new green

Secondhand should not be second-best in the eco-friendly race

29 Jan 2009

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BYOD: balancing IT risk and productivity

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Dave the dealer

Life's a beach

With a triumvirate of VARs getting into sporting sponsorship, Dave runs the rule over the brand-building opportunities

View from the channel

Views from the Channel

Why Apple wants bigger bite of channel

Latest distribution sell-through figures indicate a softening in Apple's stance towards the channel, says CRN deputy editor Doug Woodburn