Re: Compass over Telular? + Plasma cutter detection

["Crash Gordon" <webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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
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| "Crash Gordon" <webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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| > 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.
|
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| Bob La Londe
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