Cisco Spares With Different Prices From Primary Part?

Probably most of them, except that Cisco has an internal confusion about items which are upgrades (e.g. licenses for things that did not previously exist) and tends to mark them as spares.

Because it is very common in industry to have a lower price for 'original equipment' than for spares. Original equipment factors in overall profit for a grouping of components -- e.g., if you get a Cat4500 new then you are going to need to get *some* supervisor card, and the pricepoints of reasonable groupings of new components together are tweaked for psychological or competitive reasons.

But once you have something and it breaks, then charging a pretty penny for the replacement quite common. Sometimes it is a matter of a calculated gouging of a captive market, and sometimes it is a matter of pricing so as to entice you to buy entire new bundles instead of repairing. ("It'll be faster, it'll have more features, it'll have a warrantee, it won't be as worn...")

Just a cursory glance through the list only turned up about 1000 cases out of 100,000 where the spare and primary had different list prices. Most of those seemed to be around a few product families.

But wouldn't it all be much clearer to absorb these ideas into the discount level extended? Don't destroy the product catalog with totally different list prices for the same thing. Extend more aggressive discounts to first time buyers, or when you buy the original equipment, and then extend less aggressive discounts when the user upgrades or adds on. Trying to codify that logic into list prices only makes it unclear what the price is, and inevitably means people look for ways to game your system and develop loopholes.