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Strongly urge moderation of false advertisement posts!!!
Strongly urge moderation of false advertisement posts. The titles promise promotions but inside they are just fake giveaways, purchase limits, or out-of-stock claims, wasting time. Also, VPS services costing dozens of dollars per year have no reason to advertise here. This space is for finding discounted VPS, not regular-priced offers. Save everyone’s time and preserve the original purpose of this site.
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@allthemtings why you make us clicky clicky and no stok
Oh no! Not a 24 dollars per year! Too much!
VPS services with more than 64MB RAM have no reason to advertise here.
https://lowendbox.com/blog/yes-you-can-run-18-static-sites-on-a-64mb-link-1-vps/
real fun
Oh the ancient times where people actually spent some time optimizing for lower memory use. Nowadays they either spin up more instances of their bloated node.js app or gamble OVH for at least 64 GB RAM.
Do those VPS providers not know that Google Cloud and Oracle offer VPS for 4.5 and 5 USD? Their ads are garbage.
10 day old account holder misses the old time on LET
If you are an elderly person you should know that browsing and purchasing do not require registration.
Hello, MJJ!
Per month?
everyone’s time wasted has been doubled
Agree on the importance of clear and honest offers. Transparency helps both buyers and sellers, and keeps the forum useful for everyone.
@vpsceo how about strongly moderate the urge to strongly urge moderation?
Stock is finite. Deals are usually created to fill unsold stock or custom attractive plans may be created to fill imbalances on the provider's hardware.
Something not being in stock isn't false advertising. It's just you're reading an old thread that keeps getting bumped up.
A provider's offer is made usually to get rid some limited older stock, give some heavily discounted vps in limited quantity to promote his business, have some unrealistic offer to make you see his other products etc. Usually, those offers will disappear in days or even hours, if they are really good. When a business owner give some givaways or some heavy offers, he does it not because he is a good man that wants to help others, but as a plan to keep his store viable.
I really cannot understand what you want: Some lower than cost offers that are offered for an infinity stock and period? Why? Is this what you expect from a big discount super market? If promote an offer, this should be forever and in unlimited stock?
And there are some other pretty good offers that are still available, even after months from the post. Those are not so heavily discounted. In LET you can find anything you want.
All those offers are not a false advertisement - except some shady ones that LET community will bash anyways in seconds!
I really cannot understand what you want to be moderated...
No, this space is a community for lower priced hosting services. To talk, argue, find offers, get some tips, gain knowledge in topics. And for discounted vps. The vast majority of offers are discounted vps.
$1/yr unlimited stock. Pls give. I spent all my money on a real life companion doll with AI
Wait? You're paying oracle?
Advertised consumer goods must be available with reasonable stock quantity to satisfy reasonable demand.
https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb1469?ys=2013RS&search=True
1~10 units: unreasonable.
50~100 units: acceptable.
Purchase limits? Fuck off, reseller.
I am here.
Well, that's your interpretation of quantity. And of the applicability of this law to online transactions...the language seems more oriented towards brick and mortar retail.
If it's applicable, in theory, every provider should list quantities available or offer rainchecks, or be able to legally defend that they've stocked to satisfy reasonable demand.
That's in theory. In reality, who gives a shit about a pissant state like Maryland.
He's not wrong that it seems like some providers are playing shitty games, but I dunno how you'd prove it. Generally if I decide some provider is fucking with me, I just put them on my list of hosts I badmouth to anyone asking my opinion.
Shitlist them and move on shrug.
The OP clearly doesn't know what they're talking about.
Impose limits on whom? As far as I know, companies pay to be here and offer what they can and want to offer. It seems like you want to ‘impose an invisible dictatorship’ like an invisible state, if you will.
Of course you want cheap VPS and servers, but the vast majority end up going wrong. After a few months, they start to be slow to respond to tickets, uptime, etc. It's simply not sustainable for a company to sell VPS servers for €10 or €7 a year. It is possible when there is a lot of stock available. Or when there is a stock limit to be used. But always controlled.
It is not beneficial to offer very cheap promotions. This works for new companies. Other companies end up ‘dropping the service’ because they simply get tired of receiving abuse, support tickets, demands, requests, complaints, and congestion on overly cheap Black Friday plans.
So the vast majority of them don't even last two years and the company ends up simply ignoring you. No one wants to deal with customers who demand performance, speed, tolerate abuse, ignore certain types of behaviour for €7 or €20 a year. It's not profitable. Only if it's very limited, then I agree.
Buy and then complain about the £7 or £20 per year VPS. That's what usually happens in many companies.
Now set prices? Units that companies can advertise? Lol.
Good luck!
I dont agree, at least, not completely. If offer is extreme (e.g. 2vcpy 3gbram 50gb ssd for 10$/y , it is obvious that will have a limited stock. I think those are usually the kind of offers that disappear quickly on LET forum. And those offers usually come in very limited stock. It would be good, although, for the provider to say the quantity of the offer.
A lot of ppl do.
A lot.
Knowingly and unknowingly
It's a fair point that some providers are a little sneaky in their posts, but I agree with @zed to note it and move on. Buyer beware.
A long time ago this forums was more about how to make a 128mo ram vps work and optimize the usage. Now it's more how to get the most resource at the best price as possible. Time change.
We don't overdo it with rules here at LowEndTalk. That's part of what makes this community interesting.
That said, I don't like it when providers do a deep discount with an allowed qty of only a few orders. Spread the fun around please!!
10+ at a minimum, know what I mean?
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