Sure but I feel guilty as hell calling and asking for the price to then just not go with them and ghost them. Giving it to me up front helps stop that.
This just sound like you don't deal with vendorsas a corporate rep for your employment.
What you are crying about is normal in the corporate world. Contact a rep for business tier pricing. They might want to set up a meeting to discuss a business need so they can tailor the pricing specifically to your company's interests. After the meeting concludes they take the notes from that discussion and generate a quote.
At some point during the discussion the topic of what other vendors or similar service providers are you reviewing, this also gives the company a tip as to what pricing they provide you.
If say you mention you are looing at the top tieer company in the industry, they might undercut their price a tad bit to make it competitive, as long as the can closely match 1:1 services between them and their competitor.
But yeah, if you're just shopping for something that says "contact us for pricing" like you'd buy a damned iPhone. You are not the customer they are catering to. Short of you starting up a business and willing to drop $80,000+ on a business to business service. And that's at the low end.
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u/DonnyBrasco69 5h ago
you likely weren't the target customer then. It costs the business to nurture customers who aren't ready to spend.