We shall see. If they raise prices for resellers, we'll be getting on board with entrust/tucows certs. We'll have to wait and see about the thawte's chain cert too. A verisign sales person told me they were not going to renew it. (of course I don't take everything a sales person says as gospel) Ken Pacific.Net
Sergei Kolodka wrote: > > Hello William, > > I think that there are few hidden reasons for pricing changes, > it's not just a way to capitalize. > > Yes, QuickSSL for $119 can't compete with cert from Thawte > for $125, but same QuickSSL for $69 from reseller is much > more attractive offer. Same about eBusinessID. > But they keep rise prices, more then $100 per cert in > less then 5 months and same time they rise market share. > How ? > > As for me they just changed their market strategy to strong > reseller-centric model and high retail prices is nothing > else then way to force end users deal with reseller. > There are few signs that can confirm this - special resource > for reseller with sophisticated order tracking mechanism > launched last month it's one of them. > > It's look very like Entrust-Tucows cooperation. If you want > cert directly from Entrust you have to pay more then $200, > but same from Tucows cost only $99. And i guess that Tucows > sell much more certs then Entrust himself. > > I think that such strategy can help to survive both Entrust > and GeoTrust, i mean first of all inevitable renewal of > Thawte's chain certificate, and avoid open price war with > Thawte and Verisign on their own market. > > -- > Best regards > Sergei Kolodka > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > WXW> I have to say that I am very disappointed with the course Geotrust > WXW> appears to have decided to take. > > WXW> Here was a company with the perfect opportunity to shake up the SSL > WXW> Cert market, and they instead have become really no better than any > WXW> other's in the business with their excessively high pricing for a > WXW> service that really should be priced under $75 retail to the end user. > > WXW> Now they have set the QuickSSL product at $119 retail, and the > WXW> eBusinessID product at $199 retail. That eBusinessID product was a > WXW> $75 product when Equifax had it. > > WXW> Someone needs to get in and shake this market up. Instead they come > WXW> in with low prices to draw in the initial sales, and then capitalize > WXW> themselves on the artificially inflated prices the virtual monopolies > WXW> have permitted to occur. > > WXW> I think the pricing changes were a very bad move for Geotrust.
