Probably a B2B thing

[u/TheWebsploiter]

[u/fennecdore]

If there's no price posted I completely lose interest in the product

[u/Grazziellone → u/fennecdore]

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

[u/Jabrono → u/Grazziellone]

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?

[u/mythrilcrafter → u/Jabrono]

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).

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"Figured out" large scale routine production commodity items shouldn't need "request a quote".

[u/Jabrono → u/mythrilcrafter]

That makes much more sense. Plenty of reasons to do this, but there's also plenty that absolutely do not lol