cogent - Sales practices

Fri Aug 5 20:24:34 UTC 2022

Cogent getting involved in absolutely obnoxious and shady sales tactics 
that they'll seemingly never address or do anything about? Why I never

On 8/5/2022 4:20 PM, Dennis Burgess wrote:
>
> So we just got an email from cogent, we have told them time and time 
> again to stop calling and stop emailing.  We tell them are good on 
> bandwidth and we don’t need any of their services.. They then sent us 
> a e-mail stating that they saw us coming though one of their customers 
> networks from us, and figured we would want to buy direct instead of 
> going though one of their customers. Yes COGENT stated this; well at 
> least one of their sales reps.  Sounds underhanded, shady, and 
> unethical to me.    Just figured I would post about it; see if I am 
> making a mountain out of a mole hill 😊
>
> Here is the e-mail:
>
> //
>
> /"Hey (redacted) ,/
>
> /Maybe there is a misunderstanding. (ISP’s name removed) is a cogent 
> customer who we provide upstream to./
>
> /My initial inquiry was to see if it makes sense for Link Technologies 
> to be utilizing our network instead of through (ISP’s name removed). 
> That way we could be a direct network for you./
>
> /Would that be at all something that interests you?/
>
> //
>
> /Eric Gogerty | Global Account Manager | AS 174/
>
> /Cogent Communications | Minneapolis, MN (United States Of America)| 
> www.cogentco.com/
>
> /Contact: 612-217-5506| email: egogerty at cogentco.com/
>
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