Astec system

KoolKid

Funnily enough I was pricing a job today where the customer was quoted by another company for HKC Securewatch. The quotation in a plain email format,
No specs
No grades
No company logo........
it was claiming Securewatch is one of the latest systems on the market. Only on the market 3 years & is the most up to date & gauranteed to be in production & have availability of parts for the next 10 years + :eek::eek:
Now at first I though Securewatch was a misprint, but its mentioned about 4 times & also on their website:eek:
The email eneded with this quote:
"There are a lot of smooth talking cowboys in this business , I suggest you take on board all the advice in this email

Could this be the same guy?
Why companies still selling this is beyond me...

fred funk }{

KoolKid wrote: »

Funnily enough I was pricing a job today where the customer was quoted by another company for HKC Securewatch. The quotation in a plain email format,
No specs
No grades
No company logo........
it was claiming Securewatch is one of the latest systems on the market. Only on the market 3 years & is the most up to date & gauranteed to be in production & have availability of parts for the next 10 years + :eek::eek:
Now at first I though Securewatch was a misprint, but its mentioned about 4 times & also on their website:eek:
The email eneded with this quote:
"There are a lot of smooth talking cowboys in this business , I suggest you take on board all the advice in this email

Could this be the same guy?
Why companies still selling this is beyond me...

Sounds well dodgy.

dave45dave

fred funk }{ wrote: »

I know you were saying it 'tongue in cheek' but I can assure you that if you break the cost down the installer didn't make anything near what you think he did. 680 is actually quite a good price. Glad you got it sorted anyway.:)

No i was only messing on a handy days labour.

altor

KoolKid wrote: »

"There are a lot of smooth talking cowboys in this business , I suggest you take on board all the advice in this email

Sounds like he was talking about himself

KoolKid

Needless to say the customer is happily getting much better value for money with a nice, shiney,new & up to date SigNET

dave45dave

Could this be the same guy?
Why companies still selling this is beyond me...[/QUOTE]

No definitely not , he told me exactly what he was using , and where he was using it. Dont know what you mean by company logos , but its on the bellbox. Got warrenty as well

KoolKid

dave45dave wrote: »

Dont know what you mean by company logos , but its on the bellbox. Got warrenty as well

I was referring to the quote I seen.
It was done as a simple email, there was no form or structure to it..By no company logo, I meant, there was no letter heading or signiture showing company logo or details.

skar

KoolKid wrote: »

The quotation in a plain email format,
No specs
No grades
No company logo........

Plain text email format is OK when company have mail security in mind.
But attachment (pdf, doc) with item specs, grades, and logo would be nice :rolleyes:

KoolKid

Proper letter headed word doc and pdf data sheets attached to a cover email would be the norm here.