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Old 02-09-2011, 09:37 PM
Pumpercloggs Pumpercloggs is offline
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gotta love cogent


I love how these guys try to poach clients from hosting companies 1 week, then the next they try to sell you bandwdith,

This is an email forwarded from one of our loyal customers:

#######################################################
Hello,



I'd like to speak with you about the server environment for
xxxxxxxxxxxxxx and the connection with (our company). I work with Cogent
and consult with many adult sites and Tube clients such as yours. I was
following your website stats on Alexa.com and although ranked high #20,149,
your upload speed is slow 2.564, with 78% of sites being faster. I'd like
to speak about possible synergies between our groups and have the ability to
assess your bandwidth requirements to see if we are a good fit for your IP
Transit/ Hosting requirements.



Are you available for a brief call this week?



Best Regards,

Chris Waters





Christopher Waters

1015 31st St. NW

Washington DC, 20007

Phone: 202-295-4321

Fax: 877-224-9856



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Old 02-09-2011, 09:46 PM
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It's the part of the world of sales. They're just doing their job.

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Old 02-09-2011, 09:51 PM
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Oh don't get me wrong, I get that, I just think they should choose between stealing your clients and selling you BW.

It would be like me supplying your convenience store with food then opening a grocery store right next door, unethical.

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Old 02-10-2011, 12:09 AM
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Doesn't their sales staff have such insane turnover that there's no point replying with "never talk to me again"?

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Old 02-10-2011, 02:56 AM
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Just to play devil's advocate here, maybe they actually researched your client's website and came to know who they're hosted with and other details. This is pretty much Outbound and/or Acquisition Sales, how else would they contact customers? Pretty much everyone is a client of some Company or the other.

Unless, they contacted all your clients somehow, then that would be stealing clients. Or if the employee worked with you, now jumped to a different Company and that Company were contacting your clients to get them to switch over.

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Old 02-10-2011, 04:29 AM
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Doesn't their sales staff have such insane turnover that there's no point replying with "never talk to me again"?
^ this is right!

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