This is not a WISP that competes with me in any way... It's actually a family member's new last mile connection, where the bill looks like:
NRC $several hundred dollars - CPE radio $165 - new customer one time installation fee $80 router purchase MRC $85 monthly for a reasonably high quota service I think that the price disparity between the actual market value of the router ($11 to $15 on ebay with free shipping included in the price) and what they sold it for is so wide that it's just *wrong*. I can see buying a $75 basic 802.11ac router and selling it for $100, or even $110... But not this. On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 6:23 PM, Trey Scarborough <[email protected]> wrote: > I agree if they are selling the router along with installing it for $80 > and they are not selling it as a new router I don't see the problem. Its a > $10 plus say $10 for shipping and $60 to install it. If that was geek squad > the bill would probably come out to $300... > > I agree if this is a competitor just sell a better faster router for less > with install. > > On 8/22/2016 8:07 PM, Lewis Bergman wrote: > >> If this is your competition, I encourage you to forget about it. Nothing >> productive will come of it. >> >> >> On Mon, Aug 22, 2016, 7:33 PM Josh Luthman <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >> That doesn't really answer the questions though. Sounds like the >> second one kinda... >> >> Josh Luthman >> Office: 937-552-2340 >> Direct: 937-552-2343 >> 1100 Wayne St >> Suite 1337 >> Troy, OH 45373 >> >> >> On Aug 22, 2016 7:47 PM, "Eric Kuhnke" <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >> A CPE radio was installed and aimed, ubnt PoE injector put in >> place, and the router connected to the LAN side of the PoE... >> >> The CPE radio installation was its own installation service >> charge and equipment fee separate from the $80 line item for the >> router. >> >> >> >> On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 4:00 PM, Josh Luthman >> <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >> If it's sold as new? That's wrong. >> >> If it's sold as a service (go to house, install router, >> leave)? That's fine. >> >> If it's sold as a used product? That's fine. >> >> >> Josh Luthman >> Office: 937-552-2340 <tel:937-552-2340> >> Direct: 937-552-2343 <tel:937-552-2343> >> 1100 Wayne St >> Suite 1337 >> Troy, OH 45373 >> >> On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 6:57 PM, Eric Kuhnke >> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >> Many WISPs rent routers or sell home wifi routers to >> their customers. >> >> Some routers are used pulls from other customers, get >> factory defaulted and configured for new customers. >> >> Nothing wrong with this. >> >> If you saw a WISP that was taking used routers from >> customer pulls and re-selling them to another customer >> at $80/piece, and that router was this exact model: >> >> http://www.ebay.com/itm/NETGEAR-WNR1000-WIRELESS-N-N150- >> WIRELESS-ROUTER-RANGEMAX-4-PORT-SWITCH-/171392676852?hash >> =item27e7ccb3f4:g:D8sAAOSwKPNTzDRY >> >> Would you consider it to be ethically questionable? I >> could not in good conscience sell such a feeble, >> obsolete $10 router for $80. >> >> >> This is not a 'rented' router, this was an actual >> purchase line item on a customer invoice. >> >> >> >> >> >> > >
