[178980] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Comodo
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Blair Trosper)
Fri Mar 20 16:04:49 2015
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <550B3948.6010401@lcrcomputer.net>
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2015 15:04:46 -0500
From: Blair Trosper <blair.trosper@gmail.com>
To: Lyle Giese <lyle@lcrcomputer.net>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
Seconded. They were blocked two weeks ago on my many numbers after I filed
a complaint with the FTC here in the US...quite a fall from grace indeed.
On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 4:02 PM, Lyle Giese <lyle@lcrcomputer.net> wrote:
> This is a one off message and I will not reply to any public posts. But
> it's gotten to the point that I am quite angry by the underhanded sales
> tactics by a company that I once considered reputable.
>
> I have available discounted SSL certificates via a small reseller account
> with SRSPlus. I get a very good price via this service on Thawte's ssl
> certs.
>
> Comodo sales droids are now calling my customers to offer them discounted
> SSL certificate renewals. However they are quoting them retail prices. I
> am paying well under posted retail prices and generally sell them to my
> customers at about 50% of what Comodo is claiming to be a discounted price.
>
> Comodo is cold calling business owners that have no idea what a SSL cert
> is for a website and trying to sell them something they know nothing
> about. My customers contact me for their website needs and I take it from
> there. I bill them after I pay for the cert via my resellers discount
> program.
>
> Enough. Just fair warning to rest of this list about this practice from
> Comodo. End of subject from me.
>
> Lyle Giese
> LCR Computer Services, Inc.
>
