Re: [cobalt-users] re: For Sale Raq 2s

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REMEMBER

Buyer BEWARE! Never buy used equipment without seeing it, and checking it
out. Sometimes, you may get what you paid for, and sometimes you get ripped
off. Think of it this way, would you buy a used car without checking it out?
I know i would not.

David
----- Original Message -----
From: "RHLinux- WHN" <rhlinux@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Cobalt-Users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2000 6:39 PM
Subject: [cobalt-users] re: For Sale Raq 2s


> I was approached by Tony Gorkoff about 5 months ago, he wanted to purchase
> my customer base from me, at that time it was around 300 users. We signed
> the agreement and waited for the day for him to deposit the money into my
> bank account. After the agreement was signed, we went ahead and moved all
> 300 customers to his servers, which he is now selling.  I started seeing
> complaints from my clients after the move, the servers were slow, always
> crashing, on average they were up about 40% of the time. Support went
> unanswered for upwards of 10 days.
>
> This man Tony, was running everything from his laptop in Canada. I
expressed
> my concerns with him on why he didn't have tech support users, billing and
> the normal company location, His answer was he was moving into a new
> location. He didn't even know his own fax number so I could fax him a copy
> of the agreement. After 2 weeks of not getting my money. Tony seemed to
drop
> of the face of Canada. I did get hold of him a few times and he said that
he
> got robbed and that he couldn't do the transfer of the funds without id. I
> told him to write me a check. Two days later, his cell phone, company
phone
> and fax were mysteriously disconnected. Unable to get ahold of him, and at
> this point my users were without a homepage, I did the only thing I could
> do, contact my clients and move them to our own servers.
>
> As of today, his servers are still down. Sure its a good deal for the
> servers, but if you don't mind getting screwed over from this man who is
> nothing short then a cheat and fraud, its a great deal for these two
servers
> he is selling. Its your choice, I am just making you aware of this mans
> business practices and how he can mysteriously disappear from the earth
> after two days. As of today, I still have never gotten ahold of him.
>
> Regards
> Gary Peltola
> Web Hosting Network
> gary@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> --------------------------------------------------
>
> I am curious to why you would say this--and I think you are probably going
> to have to explain why you think this.
>
> Thanks,
> -k
>
> on 1/25/00 2:10 PM, RHLinux- WHN at rhlinux@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> > FTI: i wouldnt recommend buying these servers, the man is a fraud
> >
> > Regards
> > WHN
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "lists" <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > To: <cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2000 8:12 AM
> > Subject: [cobalt-users] For Sale Raq 2s
> >
> >
> >> I have two Raq 2s for sale.
> >>
> >> Cobalt Raq 2 64MB 8 GB $ 800
> >> Cobalt Raq 2 128MB 13 GB $ 1500
> >> Cisco Catalyst 9 Port Switch $600
> >>
> >>
> >> Above are less then 3 months old. MUST SELL ASAP.
> >>
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