[Asterisk-Users] Pricing for DS3000P

[trixter http://www.0xdecafbad.com]

On Sun, 2005-06-05 at 09:09 -0400, Andrew Kohlsmith wrote:
> Now mind you we do some "advanced" logins too...  the top 1% of our userbase 
> in terms of minutes used are actively booted off and disallowed login during 
> busy times (these are the campers, they're on 24/7).  This really does help, 
> and if they get pissed off enough to leave it really doesn't affect us 
> negatively.  In fact it helps.
> 

That was a policy we did not adopt, something about using the word
'unlimited' and then not wanting to fill it with a ton of qualifiers
like 'its unlimited unless you actually use then then we will limit you,
but if you never use it then ...'  :)

That single fact can help your ratio considerably.


> Typically in terms of complaints we tend to hear from the old grannies and 
> casual users who can't get on during busy times, and our active kickoff of 
> the campers has almost eliminated that, which indicates to me that we're 
> close to "optimum".
> 
close to optimum by eliminating a class of users, I think one that
should properly be factored in rather than booted off. Its a business
decision, and depending on finances one that may be required.



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