Re: Compass over Telular? + Plasma cutter detection

["Bob Worthy" <securinc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

And these yahoos think they are doing you a favor for  letting you bid their
job. There is one major national builder here that has put the low voltage
out for bid three times on the same developement. Think there might just be
something wrong with that picture? We are taking bets to see how many times
this will happen before the place gets built. It is wild to see just how
many companies line up to get abused.

"Crash Gordon" <webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:fIUzf.64$8f.7774@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Friend of mine keeps sending me government bid crap...takes me 2 weeks to
> read through the zillion pages of NOTHING. You couldn't bid from that shit
> if you wanted to.
>
>
> "Bob La Londe" <usenet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:O9mdnfpLq6ppL1LenZ2dnUVZ_sSdnZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> | "Crash Gordon" <webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> | news:uhNzf.11$8f.776@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> | > Doesnt matter anymore. Thanks for your response though. I was being
> "used"
> | > as design-bidder for another company. For weeks I've been trying to
put
> a
> | > bid/design together for a big contractor with lots of these shipping
> | > containers with equipment in them...freekin turns out they were just
> using
> | > me to figure out what should be done so then could have their own
> | > "security
> | > dept" put the stuff in and monitor it themselves. Good thing I didn't
> | > actually give them any specs yet! Freekin waste of time.
> | >
> |
> | I get that from government agencies all the time.  I tell them to send
me
> | the bid spec or a quote request to write the bid spec.  If they waffle I
> | know immediately they were wasting my time.  I used to write precise
bids
> | for these outfits with obscure terminology and part or model numbers,
but
> | with the current level of the interenet its too easy for them to
> reconstruct
> | my bids and find the main stream popular names and part numbers now.
Now
> I
> | ask them if they have a formal bid request out.
> |
> | Yes, big general contractors do this a lot too, but after once or twice
> you
> | know who they are in an area and you just quit responding to their
> requests.
> | A few I have flat out told to quit calling me.  They will also get
quotes
> | just to keep their favorites in line, but you never had a chance of
> getting
> | their business unless you bid to lose money.  Screw that.  Life is too
> short
> | to work for unethical scum.
> |
> | --
> | Bob La Londe
> | http://www.YumaBassMan.com
> |
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