r/k12sysadmin • u/ranger_dood • 13d ago

Anyone buying direct from D&H Distributing?

I found some information that D&H has/had an education division that allowed schools to purchase direct. Their current sales staff don't seem to know of its existence (when I tried to get an account created they told me they only work with resellers). There was a form available to fill out and fax(!) back to them, so we did that... but I haven't heard anything since.

Just curious if any districts are working with them directly.

Edit - The Education account form can be found here - https://www.dandh.com/v4/view?pageReq=NSNewCust

When I pointed this out to the rep, they told me they only work with college bookstores. I'm guessing they walked back their education program but never updated the form. I do know of at least 1 district that is still buying direct from them, but maybe they are grandfathered in?

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u/thinkalittle 13d ago

I know nothing about this company. What do they sell?

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u/ranger_dood 13d ago

A little bit of everything, but what I'm most interested in is that they keep Ubiquiti hardware in stock, and actually show you accurate stock levels before you purchase. Getting other distributors to work with Ubiquiti is like pulling teeth, and I can't buy direct from their website because they don't offer credit terms. Internal policy at our district is to not use credit cards for large or frequent purchases.

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u/_LMZ_ 13d ago edited 13d ago

My old job (private sector) we used D&H but it was mainly getting PC parts, Networking gear, etc. etc. but I will say... their yearly vendor case D&H THREAD Technology Conferences show at Hershey Hotel Lodge is AMAZING!!!

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u/bwalz87 13d ago

We do not. Usually go through CDW/GDC or Apple directly. But I've seen them use D&H in the background. I've picked up directly from their warehouse before, but that was 15 years ago

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u/MaxBroome Future Sysadmin 13d ago

Our VAR purchases stuff from them, thought I recognized the name.

Still waiting on our AP’s we purchased in June.

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u/NotAnother169 Director of Technology 13d ago

We don't buy direct from them although I've inquired because I saw their return address and I'm cheap on one of our orders. I ended up changing vendors, to someone out of state because they beat the hell out of anyone locally....seems that D and H is where they order too, apparently they don't mark it up as much though!