Hi Everyone,

My name is Kirk Chisholm. I'm the founder of SupplyStream. It's great that you started this thread, we really want the feedback. This system is all about the dealer. I'd be glad to answer any questions you may have. To get things going and address some of the initial comments though...

Our Mission
"Our mission is to build the world's most complete, intuitive and industry-specific product database. A place where resellers can find anything they may need for their business' and order online with ease."

Team
We are 10 full time staff comprised mostly of developers and data specialists. We have a full time employee (Kyle Roy) who's dedicated to interfacing with dealers. We are fully committed to making a go at this and are well funded. This is not a DB that was hacked together over a weekend and will soon be out of date. You will be able to meet us all at Cedia this year, we have a booth (close to Snap).

Cost
True the system will cost $29 a month after the 60 day free trial, however don't expect to have to pay anytime soon. While we are in beta and working things out, we can't in good conscience start charging you guys. The system you see right now is an initial release, we are constantly updating it and will be launching a much nicer and cleaner design within the next week.

Selection
We have worked very hard to seed the system with over 70,000 items, 850+ brands and 50+ distributors. We receive requests every day for new brands and suppliers so if there is something you need just log in and use the request form (in the brand/supplier filter). It will automatically create a ticket for us in the background and shoot it to our entire data team. We'll get your data (for free).

Pricing
"Mario", about the MSRP on the Denon receiver... That is flat out a mistake and we apologize. By the time you read this it should be updated to $2499 ([Link: mysupplystream.com]). The problem we are trying to tackle is a massive one. In a perfect world you would expect manufacturers to just send us all the current pricing. They are, but just not fast enough. So we took it upon ourselves to go out and manually enter MSRP pricing based on research. With so many items to check, some will fall between the cracks. Going forward we have made it quite easy for you guys to submit feedback for issues you see in real time. That function will be available on the new build.

Estimates
"GotGame", good thinking. We are working on that actually. You will be able to use the database to add items to a web-based proposal. It's going to take some time to complete it though, we have several other things we want to release first. It may have an additional cost (we havent decided yet) but it will be worth it. It's going to have some very cool features (hint: live notification when your client opens and starts viewing the proposal on the web)

Passport
Our big improvement coming out for Cedia is going to be our SupplyStream "Passport" and "Buy Instantly" program. We will certify you once as a legit industry dealer and then assign you a passport. This passport will give you access to see stock levels, shipping times and instantly buy new products from distributors with a credit card.

Thanks for checking us out guys. Open for questions...