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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Cisco as Big Brother (Was Re: Cisco's AIP vs HSSI)
> The salespeople in the UK are using that tactic too? If a sales rep > EVER walked into my office and fed me a line like that, I would end the > meeting right there. As it is, I refuse to do business with Cisco not > because of their products, but because of their marketing department > and their corporate attitude of "We're the best, nobody can touch us, > and if you want to buy our product you better bend over backwards to do > what we want you to do." That was their attitude three years ago when > our company was just getting started, and I haven't noticed it change > much today. No. I think the phrase *actually* used at a meeting (I was elsewhere that day) was "It is a priveledge to deal with a market leader like Cisco." This was the Cisco sales rep, not us. sigh. Buy! Buy! Bye Bye. :-P Regards, -- Peter Galbavy [email protected] @ Home phone://44/973/499465 in Wonderland http://www.wonderland.org/~peter/ snail://UK/NW1_6LE/London/21_Harewood_Avenue/ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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