If you are unhappy with your provider just leave. If your intent is to say that overselling is making a deal with satan then you have a lot to learn about business. It seems like you think EVERYONE should be 'reserving' all of their resources. The fact is, if everyone was doing this you wouldn't have ANY lowendboxes period.
I have dozens of providers. Most of them do a good job. The bad ones, leaving just means more free dollars for them. Nah, I'll linger.
then you have a lot to learn about business
I've been involved in business for over 25 years. Not much escapes me.
Calling some low end providers, like the unlimited cellular illusionists, SATAN is what I do. Both convince you that you are getting a whole lot of service at a low price. The cellular companies at least have to provide services to some minimum level or face regulators, consumer advocates, etc. What they do like $60 for 2GB of wireless transit a month is legalized highway robbery.
Are some low end providers just as bad? In some ways.
Me, if I buy something, I am using it or stopping it as customer (i.e. discontinuing service). Outside of a two month, watch and see period, it gets used or goes bye bye.
Nothing nice about providers that argue refunds or refuse refunds (had one company I looked at today saying they never provider a refund because of the amount of time each account takes?!?!?!). That's a damn lie and doesn't reflect what real businesses do.
It seems like you think EVERYONE should be 'reserving' all of their resources.
I want to encourage folks who are dealing with oversold and underutilized plans and who are stuck in a non healthy provider-customer relationship to give those providers a thank you since they won't refund and part ways civilly.
The fact is, if everyone was doing this you wouldn't have ANY lowendboxes period.
Cheap snake oil salesmen always devise new scams to divide rational people from their money.
The same argument and outcome could be envisioned for other scenarios. Like, if we all went to the bank to withdraw our funds (oops we don't have your money and can't even wire credits elsewhere). Heck if 25% of us did that it would fall down.
The low end reminds me of insurance carriers with customers who have paid rates for years and never used/claimed anything. Allstate I believe it was saw the wisdom to not only lower their rates, but to start offering partial refunds/rewards to those customers.
When I see a $180/mo server being whored out with ungodly numbers of VPS accounts in that $3-10 range on said server it raises my ire. Providers like that would be better to stick back there in the older generation servers and reduce their costs. Have a better cost vs. income ratio.
I can't control providers, but the bad ones, I can certainly make it increasingly more expensive to pull the same scam-like skits on customers. Most of those providers are so insanely stupid about business that they continue the hardware spec nuclear arms races with the other skid providers (50GB of disk + 2GB + 2TB transit + + + for $2-7 a month). So they up the resources or pretend they have the resources and keep buying "exotic" overpriced servers to compete the Jones'. It's laughable.
They're pretty nice little units.
