[c-nsp] SmartNet on Ebay gear

[Ted Mittelstaedt]

It would be extremely foolish to buy software licensing or
smartnet or a certification from an Ebay seller.

There is some counterfeit cisco gear out on Ebay and
in fact Cisco has even discovered some of it in legitimate
retailers.

If you buy a counterfeit card or router from an Ebay seller and
it doesen't work, you will know immediately and can pursue
proceedings against the seller.

If it does work, well there is the question of how to determine if
it's counterfeit or not, the best counterfeits are exact duplicates
of the originals, often made on the same assembly lines in China
in the dark of night, and Cisco has people that try to put a stop
to that already.

i will point out that if Cisco brought back manufacturing to the
United States, they would have a lot easier time preventing
counterfeits.  So I really don't have a lot of sympathy for
them on this issue, to be honest.  That's American jobs lost,
and I'm American.

If you buy paperwork you won't know if it's good until you try
calling Cisco ans asking for your support, and they tell you
"ciscoebaysales123, we never heard of that Ebay seller" and
you find all your paperwork was just printed off on a desktop
publishing computer somewhere.

Ted

>-----Original Message-----
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>[mailto:cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net]On Behalf Of Hyunseog Ryu
>Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2006 4:32 PM
>To: Chris Moore
>Cc: cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
>Subject: Re: [c-nsp] SmartNet on Ebay gear
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>It depends on what you buy from eBay.
>If it is line card, and SMARTNET is based on chassis, usually it won't
>be a problem.
>But you may have a problem when you buy chassis or equipment with
>different licensing.
>Normally Cisco doesn't honor the software license right when it is sold
>from customer to customer.
>So you may have to buy software license.
>And if you buy chassis or line card requires license for SMARTNET,
>you have to go through recertification process.
>If you are lucky enough to buy the equipment from eBay buyer, who
>happens to be Cisco Distributor, who can recertify the equipment by
>himself, they can waive the recerfication fee,
>and you can buy SMARTNET from them.
>But otherwise, you have to go through recerfication process with
>whatever they charge for it.
>
>So I don't think it's worth to buy it from Cisco equipment from eBay
>when you need to cover it with SMARTNET.
>It's too much for hassle for me.
>
>Hyun
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>Chris Moore 쓴 글:
>> I'm certain this has been asked before but I searched the archives and
>> couldn't come up with it.
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>> Can someone give me the low-down (or point me to a resource)
>on getting
>> SmartNet on Cisco gear from an Ebay seller?
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>> Thanks,
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>> C
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