Be careful or they will remove you from the list. Although I send e-mails in the utmost humor but yet serious, it seems too many people take them as I am a complete jerk and that is not the case at all... But, I too get aggravated just the same and we are in the process of removing that aggravation and gaining other and offering a reseller service ourselves....
-- Mike Allen, 4CheapDomains.Net [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.4CheapDomains.Net Need Advertising? Try DeerSearch.Com http://www.DeerSearch.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Dean" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "WebWiz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "discuss-list" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, January 18, 2003 8:38 PM Subject: Re: Referral List > I echo your sentiments. How Tucows are doing reseller referrals is not > only deliberately obfuscating, obviously deliberately discriminatory and > massively arrogant, I am about to shift to godaddys.com who give me less > cost, a private feature I can sell and a lot less bull. And Tucows can > stick their referral list where the sun don't shine, which is where the > public see it. > > WebWiz wrote: > > >Mike (et. al.), > > > >Do you honestly believe that being on the referral list > >is going to send you boatloads of customers?! Have you > >looked at the referral list recently? It took me forever > >to even FIND the darn thing; it's buried quite deep on the > >OpenSRS webpage. And to be perfectly frank, there's no > >telling how many resellers are listed...it shows three at > >a time at random. > > > >How many prospective domain registration customers do you > >suppose find themselves on the OpenSRS website to begin > >with? Wouldn't the vast majority of people on the OSRS > >site be ones that are looking to set up a reseller account > >to do larger quantities? Maybe I'm wrong and somebody can > >correct me and tell me they get lots of their business from > >the referral list...but I doubt it. > > > >There's so much rhetoric swirling around this issue, and > >everybody's got their panties in a wad, but frankly, I just > >can't conjure up any physical model of the universe where > >I'd want to go trolling for customers who happened to land > >on the OpenSRS website...it's just not what I would consider > >"fertile ground". > > > >(FWIW, I don't know if we would qualify to be listed, and > >I haven't taken the time to determine for sure or contact > >OSRS about it, because I believe it to be a waste of my > >time.) > > > >Regards, > >Eric Longman > >Atl-Connect Internet Services > > > >+-------------------------------------------------------+ > >| Atl-Connect Internet Services http://www.atlcon.net | > >| 3600 Dallas Hwy Ste 230-288 770 590-0888 | > >| Marietta, GA 30064-1685 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | > >+-------------------------------------------------------+ > > > > > >----- Original Message ----- > >From: "Mike Allen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >To: "Russ Goodwin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "discuss-list" > ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Sent: Saturday, January 18, 2003 5:48 PM > >Subject: Re: Referral List > > > > > >What! We already spend enough on advertising, the least 2Cows can do is show > >our name on a referral list (Like they did before they got this bright idea > >of just the top so many sellers get listed) without pay-per click. If they > >do that, we will defiantly liquidate and get out of the domain business with > >2Cows as I don't see how this is helping the small guys to succeed. > > > > > >-- > >Mike Allen, 4CheapDomains.Net > > > ><snip> > > > > > > > > >
