[c-nsp] Cheapening the value of a CCIE

[David Freedman]

Pah, posting has been removed, what did it say?

Hank Nussbacher wrote:
> On Mon, 14 Jan 2008, Scott Keoseyan wrote:
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>> http://www.rentacert.com/
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> 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...
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>> Scott Keoseyan
>> CCIE #5885
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