[asterisk-biz] DIDs For Sale

Alex Balashov abalashov at evaristesys.com
Wed Sep 10 16:48:38 CDT 2008


Jai Rangi wrote:

> 1. Yes we have this full rate center.

Which full rate center?  You mean, you have the full list of rate 
centers available that you claim to have available?   If so, that is not 
a singularity.

> 2. What are my volume commitment with my carrier, how many customers I 
> have? Who will write those in a mailing list?

Nobody is asking you to reveal that information.

> 3. Yes, we can sell you $6.99, and this is the future of VoIP. DIDs has 
> to be that cheap for businesses to make some money.

How are you going to sell me $6.99?

> Last but not least, I am offering TRY before BUY, and pay only when you 
> are satisfied with the quality and service.

And I am supposed to give you my credit card information afterward?

I hate to break it to you, but either for lack of reading comprehension 
skills, or deliberately, you seem to be failing to notice that you are 
being accused of being a scammer, and failing to establish credibility 
in this community.

Things that don't augment your credibility:

- Your web site is full of orthographic errors, arbitrary noun 
capitalisation techniques, and awkward, naive turns of phrase.

- It is also characterised by a conspicuous absence of any information 
related to your company, any technical details of your offering, or any 
clear and distinct avenue for customer service or sales inquiries other 
than a "contact us" form.

- Complete lack of any established and asserted corporate identity.

- Complete lack of any information as to your sign-up and provisioning 
process.

- The phraseology of most artifacts of your web site sounds a lot like 
something from Borat.  Or worse, a pompous, gassy caricature thereof. 
This is epitomised by things like:

"You no longer need to buy by the T1/E1 or DS3. We provide DID's from 
over 2500 US rate centers."  ("The T1/E1 or DS3?"  "DID's?")

"We have great plans for DID originations."  ("We are make a service 
providings - happy time?")

...

Anyway, the point is that there are few things that telecom people are 
more afraid of than whimsical, fly-by-night operations with no business 
processes, quality control, or reliability in place.  However, that is 
precisely the impression that information about your operation -- to the 
extent that it exists in any manner whatsoever -- conveys.

If you are actually trying to be a legitimate origination/termination 
reseller, you need to clean up your act.  Or at the very least, hire 
someone who speaks passable English to rewrite your web site. 
Personally, I suspect the underlying intentions are far worse than the 
result of simple naivete, ignorance, and Philistinism.

-- Alex

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Alex Balashov
Evariste Systems
Web    : http://www.evaristesys.com/
Tel    : (+1) (678) 954-0670
Direct : (+1) (678) 954-0671
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