Re: cogent - Sales practices

[Glenn Kelley <glenn@connectivity.engineer>]

Today while negotiating with Cogent for connectivity in the WOW 226
Datacenter I sent a copy of the original email and told them I will NEVER
use Cogent for my customers due to this kind of activity.

Imagine if everyone else follows suit.

When they go low - make sure others know you are unwilling to use them.

-- When they do call my cell and I know it is them I answer with

Thank you for calling the Mental Health Hotline.    If you are dislexic
please dial 696969696969  ;-)


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On Fri, Aug 5, 2022 at 4:25 PM Jon Sands <fohdeesha () gmail com> wrote:

> Cogent getting involved in absolutely obnoxious and shady sales tactics
> that they'll seemingly never address or do anything about? Why I never
>
> On 8/5/2022 4:20 PM, Dennis Burgess wrote:
>
> So we just got an email from cogent, we have told them time and time again
> to stop calling and stop emailing.  We tell them are good on bandwidth and
> we don’t need any of their services.. They then sent us a e-mail stating
> that they saw us coming though one of their customers networks from us, and
> figured we would want to buy direct instead of going though one of their
> customers. Yes COGENT stated this; well at least one of their sales reps.
> Sounds underhanded, shady, and unethical to me.    Just figured I would
> post about it; see if I am making a mountain out of a mole hill 😊
>
>
>
> Here is the e-mail:
>
>
>
> *"Hey (redacted) ,*
>
> *Maybe there is a misunderstanding. (ISP’s name removed) is a cogent
> customer who we provide upstream to.*
>
> *My initial inquiry was to see if it makes sense for Link Technologies to
> be utilizing our network instead of through (ISP’s name removed). That way
> we could be a direct network for you.*
>
> *Would that be at all something that interests you?*
>
>
>
> *Eric Gogerty | Global Account Manager | AS 174*
>
> *Cogent Communications | Minneapolis, MN (United States Of America)|
> www.cogentco.com <http://www.cogentco.com>*
>
> *Contact: 612-217-5506| email: egogerty () cogentco com
> <egogerty () cogentco com>*
>
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