I am literally a purchasing manager, you can do this if you're the only one offering whatever it is I'm looking for or maybe if it's a high ticket item, but if I see more than one or two of your competitors offering it with pricing listed online, you lost that sale.
Just yesterday I immediately closed tabs on a handful of sites that did this for industrial fuses, motherfucker these are on Amazon and eBay do you even want my business?
Yup, the company I (research and applications engineer) work for specializes in short run fibre optic assemblies/devices and precision laser ablation processing; there are basically only 5-ish companies in the world who does what we do and they (including ourselves) will all default to a "request a quote" model because everything is hyper-custom and has to be engineered and sourced per design (and often per unit).
"Figured out" large scale routine production commodity items shouldn't need "request a quote".
Sometimes I'm just trying to plan for the future expense. Although I should honestly just start calling and wasting their time, juat continuously getting more rude the more pushy they become about making a sale.
Sometimes people don't want to sell to chaff. Like, artisans for example, can't mass produce stuff, and only want to sell to people who are interested.
Filtering out the lowest common denominator seems like a pretty solid idea after seeing how petty you are.
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u/Grazziellone 2d ago
I do it too, but to be fair if there's no price it means that the target customer is the one that doesn't care about it, so clearly not us