[asterisk-biz] DIDs For Sale

Barton Fisher bart at icpage.com
Wed Sep 10 16:55:20 CDT 2008


hee, I love this newsgroup :)
Well said!

B
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Alex Balashov" <abalashov at evaristesys.com>
To: "Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion" 
<asterisk-biz at lists.digium.com>
Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2008 2:48 PM
Subject: Re: [asterisk-biz] DIDs For Sale


> 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
>
> -- 
> Alex Balashov
> Evariste Systems
> Web    : http://www.evaristesys.com/
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