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Yea, thats a good business model. Take one time payments. What if new signups goes to 0, how can they keep the lights on? Can't be much value in a such plan.
Are you going to sell it at LET price of $7 or why not create an auction?
This post reminds me that I also have similar things at their service :-)
10
$10.01
Will offer $15 for you to keep it. Don't spread disease.
looks like jar started the weekend
+5$ from me ... so 15 +5 ... good price
How much will you offer for my penis?
21
Shipping costs too high.
Status update: @perryoo11 with 21$ :P
This is WSS, not Nekki. Could easily fit in a flat rate small.
$21.5
ill offer 30
31
Unbelievable. People actually bid for something completely worthless from a top s**t provider. Coming up next, we can bid for the possibility of one special neverending domain that contains a rounded dot forever, with one-time payment.
To be fair, if we just need sth for development and just need to create some VMs and use in a short period, it's fine. I have service there more than a year ago, and randomly created/destroyed/created VMs every other months for testing/dev purposes and it's fine. The fun thing is that VMs will be randomly turned off and you cannot know when they will be.
Do not need to give more information about network and IO as it is easily to find topics here.
Just want to share some of my experience and usage of their service so that bidders have more insight :-)
I thought "cloud at cost" would go out of business before 2016, but seems they are still going strong. How on earth is this kind of business model sustainable ??
Forevercloud has better pricing and also from terrahost which is much more reliable. it seems they are out of stock !! https://www.theforevercloud.com/
left change somethings:
BID Your Price
Minimum Increment: $1
Auction Ends: 13 FEB, 2017 - 17:00 Hrs
https://www.timeanddate.com/countdown/taxday?iso=20170213T17&p0=16&msg=cloudatcost+server+sell&font=cursive&csz=1
Status update: @perryoo11 with 31$
The pricing and the specs are surprisingly close to the rickroll in your sig.
Jewish model of business..
Suggest donate to clarity instead.
If you don't believe me: https://imgur.com/gallery/rdklj
Theres a lot of gullable folk in the world, and iirc they delete people's accounts when they don't log in to their panel for a few months -- which will keep overutilisation at bay.
A typical retention period for a monthly vps is average ~5 months, and their prices are approximately 5x the monthly cost you'd expect elsewhere. I presume this is how they make their money, they're gambling on the fact 50% of people dump their vps by 5 months in.
Edit: looks like after 7 days inactivity they do (or did) shut down services. So that's 20x quicker than I thought, but not termination.
Did anyone ever remember the bug in their system they had where you could sign up for a trial account and change some of the site's code to just keep adding packs onto your current package
Yea. Some skids even used to sell it as an "unlimited VPS method" on HF
Double post, delete me.
I was bored so I tried to make a calculation of the true value of this offer: It's $62.4 (if not paid through PayPal, read below) in my opinion.
How? By combining Cloudatcost's pricing of such specs, risks in this deal, and above all their often HUGE discounts.
Price:
2.5 times of their Developer CloudPRO 4 plan (priced at $140) gets us 10 CPU cores, 10GB RAM and 150GB SSD. So far that's $350 .
If I try to calculate what would be their relative price of remaining 5 cpu cores and 10GB SSD I'd say it's $25.
So that's a total of $375, sticker price.
Discounts:
Cloudatcost very often have %80 and even %90 discounts which makes their full price almost a joke. %80 is very common to find and for %90 people would need to wait a bit longer and act faster.
I think in this case, since we're offered an immediate provision and we don't have to wait few weeks for an official discount, it would be fair to calculated a discount of %75 .
So, after reducing %75 from $375 we're left with $93.75
Risk:
We don't know the history of seller with Cloudatcost . He could be a good user, but what if he's selling his account after getting some kind of last warning from them for repetitive violations? What if they don't really like the idea of selling accounts and they finds out later, maybe ask for ID? etc. There is a risk factor we can't predict and can't ignore.
In this regard PayPal comes to our favor and gives us 180 days of protection. So I'm assuming buyer will pay using PayPal and in this case the risk factor will be %17. Without PayPal risk factor will almost double to %33.33.
So that brings us to final value:
Through PayPal: $77.8
Other unprotected payment method: $62.4
Those would be fair prices. Anything below those prices will start to be a good deal.
Perhaps you'd like to explain what you mean, because I'm sure you didn't mean to use an insulting ethnic stereotype...
I assume that he is complaining about haggling over a price where some other person may "offer" more money over private message, rather than it be some sort of ethnic slur. As @Nekki said- "He thinks he's funny, but he's wrong."
IMHO pretty obvious intention was to mock the Jews. "instead" means the practices he attributes to them are kinda negative/inferior. Lets not dance around. Attempts to be funny don't make racism passable either. Rules are rules.