Cloudflare likes to present itself as this neutral party here to help everyone on the internet. While cloudflare is the complete opposite, it is a very hostile, hateful, vindictive, and hypocritical company. We've seen this many times before. It sounds like Cloudflare just didn't want to do business with your company because it is a casino. Cloudlfare could have easily offered a contract requiring your company to pay 10k monthly for 12 months with penalties on cancellation.
I suspect this is not money motivated and actually more political.
Seems to me that the better approach would have been to have a higher monthly payment option or a lower up-front cost. Perhaps you go $10k per month for monthly, and reduce to $9k per month if paid up front. This is not difficult. Or maybe they go the other way. You're going to get $10k for front. If you want to pay monthly, the price goes to $11k. One way or the other, this whole story smacked of a heavy handed approach to sales that legitimately harmed both companies in the end.
Cloudflare likes to present itself as this neutral party here to help everyone on the internet. While cloudflare is the complete opposite, it is a very hostile, hateful, vindictive, and hypocritical company. We've seen this many times before. It sounds like Cloudflare just didn't want to do business with your company because it is a casino. Cloudlfare could have easily offered a contract requiring your company to pay 10k monthly for 12 months with penalties on cancellation.
I suspect this is not money motivated and actually more political.
Seems to me that the better approach would have been to have a higher monthly payment option or a lower up-front cost. Perhaps you go $10k per month for monthly, and reduce to $9k per month if paid up front. This is not difficult. Or maybe they go the other way. You're going to get $10k for front. If you want to pay monthly, the price goes to $11k. One way or the other, this whole story smacked of a heavy handed approach to sales that legitimately harmed both companies in the end.