is G2.com a reputable reseller?

[frankhe78]

I recently created a home lab server and started using Proxmox. I would like to buy a Proxmox VE Community license. I came across this https://www.g2.com/products/proxmox-ve/pricing site I did not know before. G2 is offering € 4,99 / month (per CPU) and this offer is about half the price I see on the Proxmox site € 105 annually. How is it possible for a 'reseller' to offer a lower price? Is that G2.com a reputable site?

Any insight is welcome. Thank you very much in advance.

 

[VictorSTS]

Quoting the site:

Pricing information for Proxmox VE is supplied by the software provider or retrieved from publiclyaccessible pricing materials. Final cost negotiations to purchase Proxmox VE must be conducted with theseller.
Pricing information was last updated on October 29, 2015

That by itself disqualifies g2.com as "reputable" for me.

 

[frankhe78]

Quoting the site:

That by itself disqualifies g2.com as "reputable" for me.

Indeed, not reputable by any means, thank you for pointing this out. A second pair of eyes always see thing one might have overlooked.

They seem however very keen on creating an appearance of five star rated platform by having 'customers', not quite sure how that works on g2.com, write reviews all over the place about how wonderful their 'service' is. To me it is still not clear what it is they do? To mo that G2 site is clearly a red herring.

 

[Chris]

Hi,
please be careful when purchasing from third party resellers. You can always find official Proxmox partners and resellers on our homepage https://www.proxmox.com/en/partners/all?f=6

 

[frankhe78]

The offer on G2.com was 'too good to be true', which made me highly suspicious. Thank you for the link to the official partners page.

 

[dcsapak]

I think the site does not actually sell any subscriptions, but is simply a product info and review aggregation site, and the pricing info is simply outdated...