Uncapped ADSL bandwidth auctioned

“I have never seen spare capacity being auctioned off in the ISP space and we thought it quite a nice idea for the customer to determine the price,” says Cybersmart CEO Laurie Fialkov
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The customer does not determine the price when you have retarded bidders who push the price up just so that they can win.

What's the difference between 10GB at R454 with Cybersmart, and paying the same price (or less) at another ISP? Just so that the dude can walk around saying ooooh I won the auction. It's not a prize in a competition.

Please rather sell off spare capacity in a fair manner, even if you have to limit the number of accounts.
 
Everyone drops prices, but cybersmart tries to squeeze the highest price possible out of clients...

If the seller and auctioneer are one and the same, especially selling bandwidth or data, it is a terrible joke...on their poor clients.

And he wonders why no one has done it in this industry...
 
It's good to see some of these guys trying to do something even if it is only getting press for selling 10 gigs at R45/gig after three days of bidding.

Just do note that our R500 uncapped is not a discounted or loss leading product.

We still argue vehemently amongst ourselves about whether we should launch a R15/gig product, but our philosophy of 'bandwidth not data' usually wins out.

All the other 'big' guys are seriously quiet at the moment. Is that a good thing?

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“There have been a couple of silly prices on offer recently, where new entrants in the market are attempting to buy market share with loss leading products"

- I'm thinking, this woman said this, cause those "new" entrants, were lucky enough to get contracts with Seacom, whereas Cybersmart, must stick to SAIX/Is until their contracts run out. Shame.
 
kwaggawerner said:
“There have been a couple of silly prices on offer recently, where new entrants in the market are attempting to buy market share with loss leading products"

- I'm thinking, this woman said this, cause those "new" entrants, were lucky enough to get contracts with Seacom, whereas Cybersmart, must stick to SAIX/Is until their contracts run out. Shame.
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Cybersmart was making use of Seacom capacity provisioned by Neotel's backhaul, but opted out as the service was not good enough.

Yes, they are currently on SAIX, but in no way tied into them that they cannot move away from them.

Check your facts and then come again ;)
 
"This auction is restricted to Cybersnmart subscribers who.. " you spelt Cybersmart wrong, :) > http://forum.war3.co.za/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=33319 I once saw someone win a bid for 15gigs for something like R1050 when it only costs you R945 for the exact same thing :rolleyes: (R189(3gigs) x 5 = R945)

kwaggawerner said:
blah blah blah....were lucky enough to get contracts with Seacom, whereas Cybersmart, must stick to SAIX/Is until their contracts run out. Shame.
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http://forum.war3.co.za/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=32679&hilit=cybersmart ...read and get educated, thanks :)
 
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Kosmik said:
I dunno, this idea\concept actually makes me feel :sick:
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Using cybersmart intelligently can get you the cheapest broadband (R19/GB), but this concept is just festering off stupid people - fool and his money are soon parted.

Personally, it's far to much maintenance - to actively bid sucks - just sell it to me for cheap.

It could be scammable, for example: cybersmart will always "counterbid" until it reaches the default price, of which it will always make a profit there on in as others bid.

Lastly, it's completely inconsistent - I want to know i have 10G this month and every month there after.

PS. Also, it exposes your cybersmart email address.

PPS.
"Auctioned gigs will be available for use 2 hours after close of auction."

10G in 2 hours? Yeah...
 
The only thing that bothers me is what stops cybersmart employees from bumping up the prices by placing "competing bids" during the auctioning.......Im not saying it's happening just felt like mentioning it as some of the bidders seem a bit clueless :/
 
Now this is just plain bizarre!!!!!
Especially sitting next to 100Mbps line for R97 in HK headline.
 
She smells shill bidding by the cybersmart shore :D...
 
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Uninformed bidders in a bidding frenzy ! :D

Now they can sey "Hey... we give you good pricing !" :o
 
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