Streamlinenet

Walkerie · 10 Aug 2006 at 18:23

Apparantly offer unlimited webspace/bandwidth with reseller rights for 99.99 pounds per year obviously this must be a scam is their anyway to prove this to a friend?

Beansprout · 10 Aug 2006 at 18:25

Tell him to find an unlimited hard disk

Chronicle · 10 Aug 2006 at 18:31

Beansprout said:
Tell him to find an unlimited hard disk

It is just overselling. Lots of types of companies do it. Chances are most users won't use even 15% of their allocated hard drive space etc if it was allocated (and not just like 2 mb...something like a few hundred mb). So they can say its unlimited.....

Beansprout · 10 Aug 2006 at 18:33

Chronicle said:
It is just overselling. Lots of types of companies do it. Chances are most users won't use even 15% of their allocated hard drive space etc if it was allocated (and not just like 2 mb...something like a few hundred mb). So they can say its unlimited.....

It's not overselling; it's stupid, false and deceptive marketing - the only reason they get away with it is because of fair use clauses or other small print which they'll use to the customer's detriment when they realise "OH **** we're overcrowded"

I'd also suggest Googling - some interesting stuff comes up.

Chronicle · 10 Aug 2006 at 18:38

Google often does bring up interesting stuff, yes. I fail to see what you point is. I don't see overselling as being bad tbh - it doesn't affect low resource users, and allows to some extent high resource users to get a hosting package that isn't too expensive. It also lets people who are not sure of how much bandwidth they are going to use get a cheap deal and not have to pay ££££ just incase they use a lot of resources.

Beansprout · 10 Aug 2006 at 18:59

Chronicle said:
Google often does bring up interesting stuff, yes. I fail to see what you point is. I don't see overselling as being bad tbh - it doesn't affect low resource users, and allows to some extent high resource users to get a hosting package that isn't too expensive. It also lets people who are not sure of how much bandwidth they are going to use get a cheap deal and not have to pay ££££ just incase they use a lot of resources.

Agreed however all businesses oversell - but offering "unlimited" X isn't overselling

Edit: Well - depends how you interpret the word - but generally overselling means selling a specific amount of which you hope people use X% - but you can't do a percentage of 'unlimited' which is why I call it what I do in my previous post