From: Georg Pauwen (pauwen@hotmail.com)
Date: Sun Dec 08 2002 - 08:09:40 GMT-3
Larry,
with all due respect, $1,500 is a whole lot of money to pay for the exam.
Compare that to what other companies charge for their exams. I would
actually like to see that amount come down to let4s say $500. That would
still be expensive.
Admittedly it used to be that with a CCIE certification you could ask almost
anything and you would get it. Not any more, so why doesn4t the price for
the lab come down ? You can have twice as many people in the lab now as
during the 2-day lab.
I think in general Cisco is expensive: to give you an example, the list
price for 8MB DRAM for the 2500 series is $350. I just bought generic memory
from another supplier for $15.
Just a thought...
Regards,
Georg
>From: Larry Letterman <lletterm@cisco.com>
>Reply-To: Larry Letterman <lletterm@cisco.com>
>To: Thomas Trygar <trygar@wans.net>
>CC: sliu@ttank.com, Chuck Church <ccie8776@rochester.rr.com>,
>ANDF@nnpi.com, ccielab@groupstudy.com, nobody@groupstudy.com,
>troy@onenet.net
>Subject: Re: RTP CCIE Lab closed due to no power
>Date: Sun, 08 Dec 2002 01:19:30 -0800
>
>It cost us a whole lot more to run the building all day than the lab
>makes on
>what little they charge for the exam....
>
>Thomas Trygar wrote:
>
> >I guess they didn't think of a power generator. With
> >the amount of money the lab brings in it might have be
> >beneficial to buy one for just the lab and a few other
> >rooms on the first door.
> >
> >Tom
> >
> >--- sliu@ttank.com wrote:
> >
> >>Cisco itself is even a bigger victim of this
> >>disaster of nature, who should
> >>refund Cisco's loss from closing down the lab for a
> >>week?
> >>
> >>- Sean Liu
> >>
> >>CCIE, CSS-1, AIX-CATE, CNE
> >>CCSE, CCDP, CCNP, MCSE+I
> >>
> >>Solutions Architect
> >>Think Tank Systems, LLC
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> "Chuck Church"
> >>
> >>
> >> <ccie8776@rochest To:
> >><ANDF@nnpi.com>, <ccielab@groupstudy.com>,
> >><troy@onenet.net>
> >> er.rr.com> cc:
> >>
> >>
> >> Sent by:
> >>Subject: Re: RTP CCIE Lab closed due to no power
> >>
> >> nobody@groupstudy
> >>
> >>
> >> .com
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> 12/07/2002 09:29
> >>
> >>
> >> PM
> >>
> >>
> >> Please respond to
> >>
> >>
> >> "Chuck Church"
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> I think Cisco should refund your money and give
> >>you a free shot at the
> >>lab next week. You've got to figure between
> >>airfares, time off from work,
> >>and hotels, this delay has cost you guys plenty.
> >>Good luck.
> >>
> >>Chuck Church
> >>CCIE #8776, MCNE, MCSE
> >>
> >>
> >>----- Original Message -----
> >>From: <ANDF@nnpi.com>
> >>To: <ccielab@groupstudy.com>; <troy@onenet.net>
> >>Sent: Saturday, December 07, 2002 1:09 PM
> >>Subject: RE: RTP CCIE Lab closed due to no power
> >>
> >>
> >>>I would request a rescheduling if I were you. My
> >>>
> >>lab was scheduled for
> >>last
> >>
> >>>Thursday but was cancelled due the power failure.
> >>>
> >>Two other candidates
> >>were
> >>
> >>>at the door at 7:30AM along with me in the midst
> >>>
> >>of the ice-storm but
> >>nobody
> >>
> >>>from Cisco showed up. At around 8:00AM one of the
> >>>
> >>CCIE program people
> >>came
> >>
> >>>by and told us that the lab was cancelled and that
> >>>
> >>we would be
> >>accommodated
> >>
> >>>on Friday. Apparently Cisco has generators for
> >>>
> >>some of the other
> >>buildings
> >>
> >>>in the campus but not the lab building. I was at
> >>>
> >>the door at 7:30AM on
> >>
> >>>Friday but the building was still dark. I decided
> >>>
> >>to stay back to make an
> >>
> >>>attempt on Saturday. Late Friday, I got a phone
> >>>
> >>call from one of the CCIE
> >>
> >>>program administrators saying the power may not be
> >>>
> >>back till Monday or
> >>
> >>>Tuesday. That is when I decided to give up and
> >>>
> >>return home to New Jersey.
> >>I
> >>
> >>>have asked Cisco to reschedule me for another
> >>>
> >>time. The RTP area was hit
> >>
> >>>pretty bad by all the falling pine trees. I was
> >>>
> >>told that the power
> >>
> >>>companies were focusing on getting power back to
> >>>
> >>the homes before the
> >>
> >>>commercial establishments.
> >>>
> >>>Andy Fernandes
> >>>
> >>>-----Original Message-----
> >>>From: Troy Rader [mailto:troy@onenet.net]
> >>>Sent: Friday, December 06, 2002 12:02 PM
> >>>To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
> >>>Subject: OT: RTP CCIE Lab closed due to no power
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>Not to be an alarmist, but I emailed Cisco
> >>>
> >>yesterday to see if the recent
> >>
> >>>storms affected the lab. The reply today is that
> >>>
> >>the RTP lab is closed
> >>
> >>>because it has no power. News stories online say
> >>>
> >>most power is to be
> >>
> >>>restored by Sunday, but not all until Monday or
> >>>
> >>Tuesday. My test is
> >>
> >>>Tuesday. My flight is Monday. Ugh!
> >>>.
> >>>.
> >>>
> >>.
> >>.
> >>
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