Black Friday and Cyber Monday predicitions.

[Hannan]

I'm sure will see some crazy offers. hopefully the quality be good though ;p

 

[InertiaNetworks-John]

Hopefully sales will increase for all!

 

[Nick_A]

Reverse psychology - 50% price increase for Black Friday!

 

[Coastercraze]

Reverse psychology - 50% price increase for Black Friday!

That'd be a true Black Friday then.

 

[peterw]

Reverse psychology - 50% price increase for Black Friday!

On your usual 38% discounts it would be a 12% black friday tax

 

[wlanboy]

First offer that I might use:

Edis:
Get ready for this years #BlackFriday offer: 35% OFF all #OpenVZ plans - coupon-code BLKFRI - valid FRI to MON.

 

[InertiaNetworks-John]

Reverse psychology - 50% price increase for Black Friday!

-50% off!

Just make sure to put the - in a really small font. /kidding

 

[Kakashi]

How about some true "low end" offers...

5 GB

50 GB

64Mb

$5 / yr?

I never understand how any company could make any sort of profit on this. I mean the IP costs and support overheads alone wouldn't be worth it.

 

[drmike]

The above was funny.... Then I just looked and RamNode is a special on LEB:

 $13.92/year 128MB SSD OpenVZ and more in Atlanta, Seattle, and Amsterdam

The compares to prior offers at $15.60 and $14.88 for seemingly the same offering.  Well this has 10GB of disk vs. 5GB in the prior offers.

Still crazy pricing if you ask me.

 

[earl]

Was really looking forward to spending a lot of money today, but really could not find a decent deal.. the best was $50 credit for DO..

 

[drmike]

Wait I got it.

I know what we are going to see amongst that pile... Well were until I went ruining it

An offer from the B2Net hosting mafia... You know, Aim2Game, SSDVPS, etc.   Annual plan(s).

Like I said.... Black Friday offer from.... Servermania which is the new operating name for B2Net... Same company that owns the other brands that are constant ad spam on LEB --- Aim2Game, SSDVPS, etc.

See: http://lowendbox.com/blog/black-friday-servermania-7month-1gb-xen-hvm-windows-vps-in-los-angeles-and-buffalo/

Do I call them or what?

 

[Coastercraze]

Kind of surprised LEB doesn't have "Buffalo" as a permanent link in locations. Maybe confusion or perhaps they're ashamed of Buffalo.

 

[drmike]

Kind of surprised LEB doesn't have "Buffalo" as a permanent link in locations. Maybe confusion or perhaps they're ashamed of Buffalo.

They can't / won't top link in the geography section to Buffalo as there is literally no top level random shopper in their right mind shopping for services in Buffalo.

It is only through cut throat unreal expectations per dollar that things look favorable in Buffalo.   Usually a multiple prong compromise...  Based on cost, perceived loss in case of provider failure / balancing downtime vs. dollars spent.

It continues to be wrong headed over there with offers.  5 Friday offers,   2 of them = ColoCrossing = 40%.  Lower than running monthly average but still higher than reality reflects on provider distribution.