Yup, that's the way it goes unfortunately.. Cisco are into price gouging in a big way.
Maybe not the place for this but thought I'd post the info for others. I purchased a cisco 7960 off ebay and needed to convert to SIP for *. I know * supports SCCP but I wont go into that here. I'd read on voip-info.org that a contract could be purchased for approx $8 to allow me to download the firmware. I though, being in the UK, i'd get one through a reseller in the UK. What a shock! Apparently, the $8 ( �5 ) contract is no longer available and the cheapest contract they provide with firmware download access is about �56 ( $104 ).
It took me nearly 2 months to get the contract setup as well (& a nasty email to the dealer who was clearly only interested in the 'big' contracts to give mine any time).
They ask for your serial number - if you're not the first user of the phone (mine was boxed/sealed when I bought it) then they may try to get another �150 dollars for a software license too.
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