Re: [isp-bandwidth] Om Malik supports throttling, gets flamed [Cogent rant]

["Scott Granados" <gsgranados@comcast.net>]

It absolutely was marketing.;)  Anyone that says they are the "Jeff Gordon" 
of anything is clearly trying to engage the BS generator.  Next thing my 
paradigm is going to be shifted or something!  I'm just waiting for the tier 
1 is better than tier 2 argument.  Besides, NASCAR is for the weak, it's all 
about Formula I!


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "KingBloom" <lists@kingbloom.com>
To: <isp-bandwidth@isp-bandwidth.com>
Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2008 1:11 PM
Subject: Re: [isp-bandwidth] Om Malik supports throttling, gets flamed 
[Cogent rant]


> Another on that top five list..
>
> Anyway, I don't think that was a marketing/sales pitch, but rather a 
> response defending a statement made by someone about Cogent... I can  only 
> expect that any other person here would be equally endowed the  necessity 
> to respond to a similar poke at their own company.
>
> On Apr 30, 2008, at 2:52 PM, James Dogopoulos wrote:
>
> > Enough with random Cogent marketing/sales pitches here. Everybody on 
> > this
> > list knows Cogent is there. I didn't mind your cheap bandwidth, sure  it
> > has some weird hiccups and little trouble-shooting ability or packet
> > filtering/management for their customers. But hey, its cheap and 
> > generally
> > works!
> >
> > Now, the problem comes with your billing and other customer
> > service/management. Support did its job but in regards to their  contract
> > negotiations and billing I received bad faith dealing and was  treated 
> > like
> > crap and I'm not alone with this on this list. They dealt with me in  bad
> > faith.
> >
> > Commercial real estate is similar, slumlords treat their tenants  like 
> > they
> > are expendable because the landlords assume they can't afford to go
> > anywhere better. This was the way I was treated by Cogent.
> Regards,
> Bob Costas
> PR Director KingBloom.Com
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