i have paid more than the cheapest quote most times and i would do it again for the documents, nothing adverse on their file
cheap per mg is not the same as good value
Spun off from a message in #vendor-talk on 2025-09-19. 15 messages, 3 participants.
- vik_verifies — cheap per mg is not the same as good value. i have paid more twice and been glad both times. ask which warehouse 05:21
three on rotation
sorry catching up on this, ask who makes it
support reply worth noting i ask for the tiered list every time now, because the answer costs nothing and it has been useful twice, i keep receipts on all of it
rotation update i keep three on rotation because two is fragile and four is more relationships than i can maintain
i ask for the same document every time so the comparison is like for like, and that is the whole method, that was a first order
quoted lead time versus actual is the number i track. the gap is the informative part
ordered before the holiday, reporting i keep three on a list and order from two of them, more than that and i stopped being able to compare anything, ill find the number later
normal request
me too, how fast, how precise
i drifted away from a good supplier out of habit and went back for the same reason, which says more about me than them, nothing adverse on their file
same three questions
a good first reply answers the question you asked. speed is second to that, ask which warehouse holds it
spreadsheet update nobody here gets paid to say anything about any supplier and the mods would end me if i did, per mg including shipping though
reseller is an arrangement