I thought this would make a valid discussion on LET... and got permission to repost it.
This is another piece of original research you are only going to see on vpsBoard.
If you've been in this market sector for more than a few days, you probably are familiar with the Lowendtalk website. If you are a provider you probably also are aware of the prolonged delays in seeing your offers appear there (if at all). That is unless you are a Colocrossing customer.
While the claim gets tossed around that the marketplace is corrupt there, no one has crunched the numbers.
I just performed that task and here are the results showing the downward decline of Lowendtalk offers.
Key things to note:
The big hacks of Lowendtalk occurred around May 15. That resulted in this community coming into public view and many Colocrossing critics abandoning LET and LEB.
A company is affiliated where a company has existing services with CC, even though offer may not be at a CC location.
Summary findings:
Total offers on LEB has decreased every month for 5 months.
% of offers that are CC related has increased every month except one.
% of offers that are CC has ballooned from 21% in April to over 41% in August
Offers that ran as last offer for multiple days increased every month for past 5 months.
Offers that ran as last for multiple days that were CC increased for a low of 25% to a high of 54% in August.
Summary totals:
August 2013
Offers: 24
Affiliated with CC: 10
% of offers that are CC: 41.66%
Offers from later affiliated with CC: --
Offers that ran as last for multiple days: 11
Offers that ran as last for multiple days that were CC: 6 (54%)
July 2013
Offers: 26
Affiliated with CC: 9
% of offers that are CC: 34.61%
Offers from later affiliated with CC: 1
Offers that ran as last for multiple days: 8
Offers that ran as last for multiple days that were CC: 4 (50%)
June 2013
Offers: 31
Affiliated with CC: 10
% of offers that are CC: 32.25%
Offers from later affiliated with CC: 1
Offers that ran as last for multiple days: 7
Offers that ran as last for multiple days that were CC: 2 (28.57%)
May 2013
Offers: 36
Affiliated with CC: 12
% of offers that are CC: 33%
Offers from later affiliated with CC: -
Offers that ran as last for multiple days: 4
Offers that ran as last for multiple days that were CC: 1 (25%)
April 2013
Offers: 57
Affiliated with CC: 12
% of offers that are CC: 21%
Offers from later affiliated with CC: 2
Offers that ran as last for multiple days: 0