Good afternoon, The NANOG list is not an appropriate place for speculative critiques of the business models of individual companies. Furthermore, this thread has gone completely off topic. Please take it off-list. For the nanog list administrators, Chris Malayter TDS Telecom - Network Services Data Network Engineering chris.malayter@tdstelecom.com Phone: (608) 664-4878 FAX: (608) 664-4644 -----Original Message----- From: Mark Radabaugh [mailto:mark@amplex.net] Sent: Friday, March 25, 2005 12:51 PM To: nanog@merit.edu Subject: Re: "Bandwidth Advisors" - www.bandwidthadvisors.com

For those that don't know... I am now the COO of UnitedLayer. It sounds like, since I am not going to pay the "extortion" fee to Bandwidth Advisors, that their consultants won't know about our pricing and services. Even if I did pay the fee, that means that their clients can't get the best deal as I need to raise my fees to client to cover the "small residual payment" going to "Bandwidth Advisors".

Tim

Tim, Your completely free to hire your own sales people and advertising agency - if they do a good enough job you won't need someone like "Bandwidth Advisors". Of course those people are going to want some money - and nearly all sales people work on some type of base + commission basis. It's up to you to decide what is less expensive and better for you. Either one is going to cost you something. Sitting around waiting for people to come to you can also be pretty expensive if you have any kind of fixed expenses. Mark Radabaugh Amplex