Question for Jannie

[Voldemort]

Chill dude, No need to insult some ones parents. Its rather rude and disgusting. So he has an opnion about your company that's not favourable. I appreciate that you represent your company here (unless I'm mistaken) and as such a little professionalism would be much appreciated.

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He as a human being has a breaking point to, we are by no means robots brother, even though we are virtual voices

 

[MightyMuffinMan]

He as a human being has a breaking point to, we are by no means robots brother, even though we are virtual voices

Yeah but one should remember that on a forum not everyone gonna be your friend nor have a similar opnion. Not saying the priick who was poking him is right just saying there are alot of them. Anyhow another discussion on another time.

OP: you knwo there was a time when hands down I would have suggested Vodacom as the Cell Network for business users (I used to be a fan boy about 3 years ago) and I would forgive the expensive prices but these days thier Quality of service has fallen so much taht it just does not seperate them from the herd. jannie please let ypur bosses know this.

What makes the currently Cell C offer so impressive was not only the price but the real attempt on the companies side to provide customer support. They sent over there head engineer to fix my dongle issues and he did. That's customer service. Bring it back and we'll love you...don't and we want you to sell the same "cheap" product everyone else is selling at the same price. we gonna question the prices and the motives behind them.

If you want to be Woolworths of Cellular than you got to provide the incentive for me to pay those prices.

 

[Speedster]

Thanks Jannie - never meant for this to get personal. I respect that the views expressed here are those of VC, not necessarily your own. Similarly criticism should be directed at VC and not at you in person.

 

[Antonf]

You know what Antonf? I've patiently tried to debate the various topics with you and others on this forum but I've had it with your attitude and your constant attacking myself. It's childish and immature and really just shows your lack of a decent upbringing.

You chose to attack people (my parents) who you've never met, yet you ignore my request to explain the discrepancy between bulk buying of nails and broadband (more ought to be cheaper, as inferred by yourself). I expected more from someone obviously mature and well-educated. They both had more integrity than the company paying you could ever hope to have.

If I posted something nearly as objectionable as this morkhans would have sent me an infraction hours ago. So be it.

In conclusion:
1. Grow a skin.
2. If you care to waste the time, find those "attacks" - I don't recall any personal attacks on you, but a compliment or two, as recently as last week (on the Cell C forum).

I haven't been on this forum as long as you've been - but I think it's served a purpose for me.

Time to move on.

 

[bobby23]

Relax and take a chill pill Jannie. Nobody is insulting you personally. People are going to be critical of Vodacom and rightly so. If you are attacked it's only where you make statements on your own opinion without being able to substantiate it. On the other hand I have seen you directly attacking some people here so no wonder people are making remarks about your reputation which I'm starting to get an idea of myself.

Please then Mr Broadband Vendor, kindly explain the cost/Gb of bundles larger than 2.3Gb, based on your comprehensive explanation of sliding scales, bulk buying, etc.

A point of contention for the last 4 years since those prices were launched. It seems to be a symptom of Vodacom's bean counters insisting on sticking a 89 in there rather than looking at real costs and value. Must be the new "in" number at VC instead of the 666.

Data ranging from R2048/GB to R169.13. Nowhere in any other industry will I get a discount of 91.74% for buying in bulk. That would only mean one thing, that I am charged 1210% extra for buying in single units. So either VC is making huge profits on those smaller units or losing on the larger ones. I go for the former. My only conclusion is that VC wants to discourage people from using cheaper data while they should be able to cater for it with the larger sums of revenue from these users. It also doesn't add up with the "1MB always costs nearly the same" statement.

 

[r00igev@@r]

Wow! You guys have a lot more fun in this forum! (Not as good as mud wrestling, but close!) So in the spirit of good craic here is my opinion.

In reality buying bandwidth is like buying vegetables. You might buy cabbages by the kg, and not by freshness but complain when it not fresh. However, the market price is set by weight and not freshness which implies weight is more important than freshness? For me I'd rather have a fresh cabbage than a rather large rotten cabbage.

Thus broadband providers lack dimensioning in their prices (mainly because the bean counters are aggregators and not formulists). So we are debating weight (cost pe MB) when we really want freshness (availability) [I think there was a load of cabbages on a jacknifed truck in Midrand yesterday?]

So her is my view on what makes a product:

This implies that there is more than just weight and freshness.

 

[bobby23]

I don't like cabbages so much so I'll rather use bananas in the analogy. At a premium of R10 a banana sure I'm going to complain if it's not fresh enough. Drop the price to R1/kg however and I'm only going to complain if I have to throw away more than 90%. What internet providers are forgetting is that while we are paying a premium we will complain if we don't get our premium's worth. Make it dirt cheap as it would be if it wasn't run by greedy money hungry gluttons and we will only complain if it's unusable.

Btw VC's gprs IS unusable yet we pay a premium for it. What about the unusable blackberry that people still had to pay subs for. There's plenty of examples how we are getting screwed. Cell C is giving an out and all the others can say is that's it's unsustainable. Iow "we will wait for standard pricing from Cell C if this ever happens to see how much we can screw you" when we actually want to hear "we are looking at the situation"

 

[jannievanzyl]

Time to move on.

Editing posts to remove comments and deleting others completely and then claiming you never said something just ads cowardice on top of it all.

 

[r00igev@@r]

I don't like cabbages so much so I'll rather use bananas in the analogy. At a premium of R10 a banana sure I'm going to complain if it's not fresh enough. Drop the price to R1/kg however and I'm only going to complain if I have to throw away more than 90%. What internet providers are forgetting is that while we are paying a premium we will complain if we don't get our premium's worth. Make it dirt cheap as it would be if it wasn't run by greedy money hungry gluttons and we will only complain if it's unusable.

Btw VC's gprs IS unusable yet we pay a premium for it. What about the unusable blackberry that people still had to pay subs for. There's plenty of examples how we are getting screwed. Cell C is giving an out and all the others can say is that's it's unsustainable. Iow "we will wait for standard pricing from Cell C if this ever happens to see how much we can screw you" when we actually want to hear "we are looking at the situation"

Bubbles loves bananas! Bananas are yellow so wrong colour! Cabbages are red!

I love red cabbage, hence the name. After a few of these puppies you better watch out...

 

[Madhawk]

Rotten tomatoes would've been a better example, perfect for Vodacom red.

 

[morkhans]

This thread has served its purpose.