>Taken out of context, completely. In no way was that post in support
>of your position, but was instead about the possibility of
>Tucows/OpenSRS offering expanded services that would dilute the
>distinction between RSPs, and thus make price the ONLY issue.
>
>My post there was on a vastly different issue, Tony, which in context
>would have been clear.
>
>Friday, February 23, 2001, 11:04:57 PM, Tony wrote:
>
>
>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>>[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of William X. Walsh
>>>Sent: Friday, February 23, 2001 10:42 PM
>>>To: Tony
>>>Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>>Subject: Re[2]: Domain registrations ?
>>>
>>>
>>>Hello Tony,
>>>
>>>If you can' meet his needs, that's pretty much all you have to saw :)
>>>
>>>Each RSP will price differently and for different reasons.
Oh I don't really have a position William. I'm just weary of people getting
whaled on and smacked on lists for silly crap like top-posting/bottom-posting,
accused of spamming when they're not, accused of larceny when they're just trying
to make a buck by selling a bit of code. So I whaled on someone who wants something
for nothing. Big deal. Most all of us pay 10 bucks per rcu. If someone wants 50 rcus
from me and wants some hosting services to go with them hell I'll eat the ten bucks.
But asking for solo rcu's at barely above a buck apiece ain't worth anyone's RSP time.
No one and absolutely no one is giving me anything for 10% above cost. The stuff
I have to buy to keep my business alive cost double what it did a year ago. Ala carte
SysAdmin
time used to be $150/hr. Now it's $250. etc etc etc etc.
My SRS system sat broken, useless and idle for 3 months because the contractor who
took my
$500 and never delivered what he promised--a working credit card module, disappeared
into thin
air without the professional courtesy of replying to e-mails or returning phone calls.
Just 'poof'..
gone. $500 down the toilet. Insignificant amount? Yes compared to corporate Dot.com
friends telling me
of $600,000 software licenses, $10,000 per seat client licenses,
$100,000.00 content management systems etc etc etc etc etc when us 'mom & pop'
operations have to
spend 1 hour on the phone with a potential whiny customer justifying the price and
value of a $49.95/mo turnkey e-commerce service
that
comes with a free domain.
But then again I could get my 500 bucks back if I take our friends offer of $12 per
domain...At a dollar
per domain I'll only have to charge up my reseller account to $5000 and wait to rake
in the dough.
And I can't wait to tell my customers to buy my $99 Tucows certs that I'll have to
install for them for
nothing and make a big wonderful ZERO percent markup. I already spent the $30 bucks I
made with the last
Equifax cert I sold for $99.
Rant over. It's waaay too late. I'm outta here.
Tony
