[c-nsp] Cheapening the value of a CCIE

[Hank Nussbacher]

On Mon, 14 Jan 2008, Scott Keoseyan wrote:

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> http://www.rentacert.com/

C00l!  I bet some college kid got $4M in VC money from some Sand Hill pimp 
for that site.

:-)

-Hank

>
> Takes the cheapening to a whole new level...
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> It appears, however, that someone has shown them the error of their ways
> and they are no longer enticing people to sell their certifications and
> are now focused on tech-placement.  When I saw this site a few months
> ago, they were paying a lot of money (up to $1000 US per month if I
> remember right) for certain certs, including CCIE.  There's a note on
> the main page about "What happened to our rental certification program".
>
> I seem to remember some rules that Cisco maintained about transferring
> your cert centered around frequency and time between.  Like, you
> couldn't simply hop from one company to the next without there being a
> gap of some kind, but I guess they did away with those rules.
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> Scott Keoseyan
> CCIE #5885