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Re: Should Altopia just claim bankruptcy?

#119
From: thorn
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 07:50
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Chris Caputo wrote:
 
>thorn <thorn@usenet.> writes:
>>Chris Caputo wrote:
>>>Non-customers: Would it increase your chances of joining us?
>>
>>Never in a million years, chris.
>>Prices for a subscription are ridiculous and unattached from reality.
>
>How so?  $6/month is ridiculous?

128,000bps/ 8.8 days of retention is a complete joke for six bucks.
Bet the number of subscribers to this plan can be counted on your
twelve toes.
>
>>Feel free to get acquainted with the plans that other services are
>>offering and join the rest of us, on planet Earth in the 21st Century.
>
>Unless you are getting a better deal than what is offered on your 
>provider's web site, it looks like our offerings are less expensive.

Au Contraire, oh peanut counter.

Access is granted to the unwashed masses for a paltry sum of ~13.00 -
20.00 a month from numerous sources. And through the Grace Of God,
manage to deliver a steady newsfeed that saturates a 15meg connection
whenever the user decides to logon after paying such an idiotic fee.

Then there are prices for those who just fell off a banana boat:
    128,000 bits per second max - US$6.00/month
--
    2,048,000 bits per second max - US$96.00/month

Which equates to ~720.00 a month to receive the same level of service
that is delivered for 15.00 from this provider.



	You must have rocks in yer head, sonny boy. 
>
>Chris Caputo
>President, Altopia Corporation
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