Something is worth whatever someone will pay for it.
Eight years ago, contractors were building nice homes in a nice new
area, next to a golf course. They would build it for $600k (total cost
for everything) and then turn around and sell them for $1.2 - $1.4
million. Were people getting screwed? I think so. Did they still buy
them? Yes.
Travis
On 8/22/2016 8:01 PM, Eric Kuhnke wrote:
This is not a WISP that competes with me in any way...
It's actually a family member's new last mile connection, where the
bill looks like:
NRC
$several hundred dollars - CPE radio
$165 - new customer one time installation fee
$80 router purchase
MRC
$85 monthly for a reasonably high quota service
I think that the price disparity between the actual market value of
the router ($11 to $15 on ebay with free shipping included in the
price) and what they sold it for is so wide that it's just /wrong/.
I can see buying a $75 basic 802.11ac router and selling it for $100,
or even $110... But not this.
On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 6:23 PM, Trey Scarborough <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
I agree if they are selling the router along with installing it
for $80 and they are not selling it as a new router I don't see
the problem. Its a $10 plus say $10 for shipping and $60 to
install it. If that was geek squad the bill would probably come
out to $300...
I agree if this is a competitor just sell a better faster router
for less with install.
On 8/22/2016 8:07 PM, Lewis Bergman wrote:
If this is your competition, I encourage you to forget about
it. Nothing
productive will come of it.
On Mon, Aug 22, 2016, 7:33 PM Josh Luthman
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
<mailto:[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>>> wrote:
That doesn't really answer the questions though. Sounds
like the
second one kinda...
Josh Luthman
Office: 937-552-2340
Direct: 937-552-2343
1100 Wayne St
Suite 1337
Troy, OH 45373
On Aug 22, 2016 7:47 PM, "Eric Kuhnke"
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
<mailto:[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>>> wrote:
A CPE radio was installed and aimed, ubnt PoE injector
put in
place, and the router connected to the LAN side of the
PoE...
The CPE radio installation was its own installation
service
charge and equipment fee separate from the $80 line
item for the
router.
On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 4:00 PM, Josh Luthman
<[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>
<mailto:[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>>> wrote:
If it's sold as new? That's wrong.
If it's sold as a service (go to house, install
router,
leave)? That's fine.
If it's sold as a used product? That's fine.
Josh Luthman
Office: 937-552-2340 <tel:937-552-2340>
Direct: 937-552-2343 <tel:937-552-2343>
1100 Wayne St
Suite 1337
Troy, OH 45373
On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 6:57 PM, Eric Kuhnke
<[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]> <mailto:[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>>> wrote:
Many WISPs rent routers or sell home wifi
routers to
their customers.
Some routers are used pulls from other
customers, get
factory defaulted and configured for new
customers.
Nothing wrong with this.
If you saw a WISP that was taking used routers
from
customer pulls and re-selling them to another
customer
at $80/piece, and that router was this exact
model:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/NETGEAR-WNR1000-WIRELESS-N-N150-WIRELESS-ROUTER-RANGEMAX-4-PORT-SWITCH-/171392676852?hash=item27e7ccb3f4:g:D8sAAOSwKPNTzDRY
<http://www.ebay.com/itm/NETGEAR-WNR1000-WIRELESS-N-N150-WIRELESS-ROUTER-RANGEMAX-4-PORT-SWITCH-/171392676852?hash=item27e7ccb3f4:g:D8sAAOSwKPNTzDRY>
Would you consider it to be ethically
questionable? I
could not in good conscience sell such a feeble,
obsolete $10 router for $80.
This is not a 'rented' router, this was an actual
purchase line item on a customer invoice.
