What antivirus are you currently re-selling?

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Just curious :)

I'm thinking about re-selling either Bitdefender or Eset...but I'm not fully decided yet.
 
Another vote for kaspersky here. I buy them relatively cheap, say £4.50-6.00 pr disc, and resell at £25.00. In combination with mbam pro, I have not had a issue or a virus return.
 
I used to resell the boxed antivirus for a pretty hefty profit. Then I noticed I wasn't getting many second year renewals. That changed when we started selling Viper thru our RMM dashboard. It has also led to other Managed Services, because they're already connected to our RMM.
 
A few months ago, there was a coupon stack that let you buy unlimited copies of BitDefender Internet Security 2013 for $.13 a copy...yeah, thirteen cents. I was already selling Kaspersky and occasionally MBAM Lifetime, but I went ahead and bought 100 licenses.

Turns out each license is good for 3 installs.

300 installs for $13, single install license retail is ~$25, 3-install ~$49.

I've been selling them at $20 w/ bulk discount and that's going very well, it's also very nice software.
 
For the long run, as a professional business, it's better to get setup with a reseller account, than purchase 1x off discount boxed software from various "who knows what" sources.

When you first get setup with a reseller account, yes at first your discounts will not be that large. But as you build volume, you start getting deeper and deeper discounts. You also have the ability to renew the same licenses, track expiration dates, purchase and track all the various different types of software (important as you move into supporting SMBs from home users)...as you can now employ that volume you've sold towards reseller the SMB/Enterprise versions of the antivirus product to your business clients.

1x stop tracking of all your sales, history.
Access to marketing materials and training materials, you get SWAG, promotional stuff to put up in your store, and mailouts/promotions.
Access to superior reseller support
Access to sales reps to help you in bids

In the long run, there are SOOOO many reasons to take this approach that help you come out ahead.
 
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YeOldeStonecat said:
For the long run, as a professional business, it's better to get setup with a reseller account, than purchase 1x off discount boxed software from various "who knows what" sources.

When you first get setup with a reseller account, yes at first your discounts will not be that large. But as you build volume, you start getting deeper and deeper discounts. You also have the ability to renew the same licenses, track expiration dates, purchase and track all the various different types of software (important as you move into supporting SMBs from home users)...as you can now employ that volume you've sold towards reseller the SMB/Enterprise versions of the antivirus product to your business clients.

1x stop tracking of all your sales, history.
Access to marketing materials and training materials, you get SWAG, promotional stuff to put up in your store, and mailouts/promotions.
Access to superior reseller support
Access to sales reps to help you in bids

In the long run, there are SOOOO many reasons to take this approach that help you come out ahead.
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Agreed. Me = looking for partner for this.

ATM, just selling KIS, BidDefender and NIS off the shelf.

Spoke to BidDefender Australia, but they seem really only interested in relationships with business resellers. They will work with us, but there's no kickback for renewals so not much point working with them.

I have approached Kaspersky a couple of times, but they dont seem interested - probably an issue of scale? dunno. no luck with them.

Will watch this thread with interest.
 
Hey Jim.
I found these guys for kaspersky. Best Price I've found. Like you I only get palmed off to one of the companies distributors when I approach them.

Sms Etechnology. If you want prices I can look them up when I get back in.
 
Panda Cloud Office Protection or the Advanced version. What i like, i get my own console which shows me my clients consoles, so if i'm looking after a client that has 5 to 50 Pc's i can easily see their status customise scans etc from any Internet Browser, much like a lot of end point protection offerings out there but no software (other than the end point) on site

It's almost like a step in the direction of managed services and it's easy to get a trail going to see what it's like
 
Eset.

Have been a reseller since V2.7.

We get good margin on all sales and we get all the renewals as well as our customers are all listed in our reseller portal login.
We contact customers when they have about a month left to run on their sub to ask if they want to renew.
If they happen to renew online we get credit for it as well as their Eset username/password is linked to us.
 
Just signed up as a Bitdefender reseller last month. So far all is going good, I get decent discounts and access to their whole software line.

I am also a VIPRE reseller, and have no complaints. I started reselling Bitdefender since it is consistently evaluated very high. I hated answering the question "is VIPRE the best?"
 
FWIW, my large purchase was direct from BD, not from a random third party, and as long as reputable third parties (newegg, for example, for MBAM) can beat the best prices the parent company offers resellers, I feel that these remain the best choices for small shops.
 
No mention of AVG or Avast? Anybody using either? Just signed up for reseller accounts with both, just using the trials on PCs around the shop for now to test.
 
I normally sell Anti-Virus though my RMM software. Though I have been trialing symantec.cloud endpoint protection. I used to sell endpoint protection a long time ago but dropped it when 11 came out. I have to admit though, I'm not totally revolted by symantec.cloud. The resource usage seems fine and it's easy to manage from the back end. My only complaint so far is it lacks the fine tuning you get from an on premises solution. From what I have seen though, that is true for most cloud based anti-virus solutions.
 
We've been reselling Norton Antivirus to end users. We typically get copies from our vendor for about $18, and turn around to resell it for the MSRP at $39 (which is still $10 cheaper than what Norton lists on their site.)

However, since Norton AV only offers basic protection, we've had quite a few re-infections after a few months of repairing the customer's PC.

Needless to say, we're looking into some other name brand options to install in place of Norton. We've heard good things about Kapersky, but I'm interested to know what other people resell, what their cost is, and the cost they mark it up to for the end user.
 
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