The Underscore Archives

On 4 Jul 2007, at 09:37, Ed Mitchell wrote:

> On 7/3/07, Tom Price <tom at sirtomprice.com> wrote:
>> Yeah, their site is brilliantly rubbish.  Hippies, you see :)
>
> Aside to the vastly over-designed and under-functioning nature of the
> site, of particular irritation is the total lack of pricing
> information. I see this on all adverts/brochures and other stuff and
> it drives me wild. What is it with that? Do sales people really think
> that we're not interested in the price of something? Do they really
> think we're that dumb? Ridiculous Marketing Nonsense; that's what it
> is... Anyway, I diverge.
>
>> £190/month or so.  You can probably haggle.
>
> Blx. Hadn't thought of that. will dig out cost thing they sent to me
> and send it over
>

Totally. In most cases I'll just write a company off if they don't  
have any pricing info. I think the rationale might be about quoting  
individually, or perhaps letting their salespeople get some  
persuasion in before hitting you with the price. Also, maybe to make  
it harder for competitors. In any case, it's totally counter-productive.

The by the minute thing seems interesting. Do they make you clock in  
and out? Brave have some units with pricing on their site. Nothing  
about internet connections or anything though.

M


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