April 29, 2008
How many apples are you selling?
‘Great apples!’ Can you give me a price for 12 with the skin, and 12 without the skin or 12 cut from the center and yes, 12 when they are half rotten. Could you also give me an indication into how much you can discount?
Obviously, we want to buy all our apples from your store and would love to keep coming back. What more, we’ll recommend your store to all our friends and everyone we know.
Can you give me a quote with all those options and with all the relevant details like when exactly would the apples arrive at my office, how quickly can you return them if they are rotten and how much would it cost us to remove the skins ourselves if the cost is too high?
If all goes well, I’m willing to talk to our manager and present your quote to them and we’re definitely going to go for the lowest price but our main consideration will be top quality. So the deciding factor is quality but at a very good price. Can you meet that? After all, we know you have an excellent portfolio and that you’ve been supplying apples from mid-2002 and we would love to do business with your company in future.
Please make sure you give us your best price and consider this as a special deal. We think we can do great business. Thanks and I look forward to your quote and proposal.
What on earth do you think would happen? What on earth does happen in reality? You get your apples? Or you get kicked out of the store?
Good or bad, try not wasting you time printing those quotes and writing those proposals.
Serious buyers don’t beat about the bush.
They buy, make you money and stay loyal for ages.
