by Tdarcos » Thu Apr 21, 2011 7:17 pm
Ice Cream Jonsey wrote:Is it available on razor-thin margins? Unless my reading is a little off, Tdarcos has $0.71 to his name, an electronic copy of Portal 2, whatever money was left over from the Crepe Fund, and little else.
Tdarcos, where are you buying domains for $70? I know Register sells them for a year at $35. I want to make sure they're not fleecing you.
I had to renew about
seven domains. I never deal with Register.com, they're one of the most expensive places around. Register basically charges full retail list price for domain renewal or registration. As the saying goes, "they're priced like what you pay when you're buying cigarettes at an airport."
Registration service basically, is a commodity product. DNS is pretty much the same, someone types in a name and your server returns the IP address. And everyone does it the same, and everyone has some sort of automated system for making changes using a web browser.
I've used about 4 different places as either registrars or as management systems for hosting and equivalent services. NearlyFreeSpeech.net uses a customized minimalist system. GoDaddy.com uses their own customized one with a bit of pizazz and eye candy that swaps screens in and out. KVCwebhosting.com and Hostgator.com use Cpanel.
So I'm not going to even pay close to full retail for domain registration. Do you think I'm that stupid with money? I'm one of the scrimiest bastards and the cheapest sons-a-bitches in town when it comes to spending money! Don't you remember I'm the one that mentioned that GoDaddy has a loss leader on domain names at $1.04 for the first year?
There is only one thing that I will spend money on that cost is not an issue or it's at best a secondary, and that's safety. Often I can get the item I want to be sure things are safe at the lowest cost, but price is not a consideration when it comes to safety. Or the only time it comes into consideration is if it's completely unaffordable, a condition I've never had happen in many years. If that ever happens I'll only consider bothering with whatever it is if it's unavoidable and has to be done. Then you can believe I'm going to exercise
extreme caution and care.
I had to buy some goggles for eye protection once because I was going to be doing some hammering of an item that might kick up splinters, and Home Depot had two kinds, the ones like eyeglasses for around $3 and the ones that are like swimming goggles that cover not only the front of the eye but the edges too, and those were $1.99. Those were what I wanted, because I wanted the complete protection kind. Had the prices been reversed and the goggle types were more expensive, I'd still have bought them and not complained one bit.
I bought a car once that was very nice except the paint on the trunk was a little faded. My girlfriend at the time wanted to help - painting can be fun - so I said fine. I found spray paint in a close shade, and at the same time I bought some eye goggles (this was several years ago, they are not the same ones I bought for the above example although they were the same kind, the 'complete around all sides of both eyes' style), gloves to keep the paint off our hands, and filter masks so as not to breathe the fumes even though I was painting on the street. And I insisted she use all of the safety equipment. As I did as well.
I'm not BP Exploration, Inc., I don't play lip service to safety, it comes first and foremost. You only get one set of fingers, eyes, hands, lungs, etc. and you have to defend them vigorously. I've even had cases where I paid for safety fixes of other people's stuff out of my own pocket. Knowing how cheap I am you have to realize that means that whatever it was, was so egregiously unsafe that it offended my standards enough for me to want it fixed and I was willing to put my money where my mouth is.
[quote="Ice Cream Jonsey"]Is it available on razor-thin margins? Unless my reading is a little off, Tdarcos has $0.71 to his name, an electronic copy of Portal 2, whatever money was left over from the Crepe Fund, and [i]little else.[/i]
Tdarcos, where are you buying domains for $70? I know Register sells them for a year at $35. I want to make sure they're not fleecing you.[/quote]
I had to renew about [i]seven[/i] domains. I never deal with Register.com, they're one of the most expensive places around. Register basically charges full retail list price for domain renewal or registration. As the saying goes, "they're priced like what you pay when you're buying cigarettes at an airport."
Registration service basically, is a commodity product. DNS is pretty much the same, someone types in a name and your server returns the IP address. And everyone does it the same, and everyone has some sort of automated system for making changes using a web browser.
I've used about 4 different places as either registrars or as management systems for hosting and equivalent services. NearlyFreeSpeech.net uses a customized minimalist system. GoDaddy.com uses their own customized one with a bit of pizazz and eye candy that swaps screens in and out. KVCwebhosting.com and Hostgator.com use Cpanel.
So I'm not going to even pay close to full retail for domain registration. Do you think I'm that stupid with money? I'm one of the scrimiest bastards and the cheapest sons-a-bitches in town when it comes to spending money! Don't you remember I'm the one that mentioned that GoDaddy has a loss leader on domain names at $1.04 for the first year?
There is only one thing that I will spend money on that cost is not an issue or it's at best a secondary, and that's safety. Often I can get the item I want to be sure things are safe at the lowest cost, but price is not a consideration when it comes to safety. Or the only time it comes into consideration is if it's completely unaffordable, a condition I've never had happen in many years. If that ever happens I'll only consider bothering with whatever it is if it's unavoidable and has to be done. Then you can believe I'm going to exercise [i]extreme[/i] caution and care.
I had to buy some goggles for eye protection once because I was going to be doing some hammering of an item that might kick up splinters, and Home Depot had two kinds, the ones like eyeglasses for around $3 and the ones that are like swimming goggles that cover not only the front of the eye but the edges too, and those were $1.99. Those were what I wanted, because I wanted the complete protection kind. Had the prices been reversed and the goggle types were more expensive, I'd still have bought them and not complained one bit.
I bought a car once that was very nice except the paint on the trunk was a little faded. My girlfriend at the time wanted to help - painting can be fun - so I said fine. I found spray paint in a close shade, and at the same time I bought some eye goggles (this was several years ago, they are not the same ones I bought for the above example although they were the same kind, the 'complete around all sides of both eyes' style), gloves to keep the paint off our hands, and filter masks so as not to breathe the fumes even though I was painting on the street. And I insisted she use all of the safety equipment. As I did as well.
I'm not BP Exploration, Inc., I don't play lip service to safety, it comes first and foremost. You only get one set of fingers, eyes, hands, lungs, etc. and you have to defend them vigorously. I've even had cases where I paid for safety fixes of other people's stuff out of my own pocket. Knowing how cheap I am you have to realize that means that whatever it was, was so egregiously unsafe that it offended my standards enough for me to want it fixed and I was willing to put my money where my mouth is.