Requests For Quotes
I'm just a guy who has taken lots of pictures
of other people's plumbing.
But somehow my
Toilets of the World
collection of pages has convinced a lot of people
that I am a vendor of plumbing equipment.
This goes way beyond the usual nonsense of Chinese companies
spamming the world with their misspelled industrialia:
From: csszcodx@public.wh.hb.cn
Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2002 14:26:16 +0000
Subject: 12 main items ( 9B )
THE GATOSON (HOLDINGS) LIMITED
E-mail : csszcodx@public.wh.hb.cn
Our Ref.: 12 main items (9B) 13th Oct. 2002
Dear Sir,
We can get the follow good quality products which made
in China at the SPECIAL LOWEST PRICES.
A01 man garment
A02 lady garment
C02 foodstuff machine
D02 traveling bus
D05 carring truck
D06 saloon car
D11 fire truck series
D14 drumper
E01 yacht and speed boat
E02 oil tanker
E04 submarine vessel
E08 treading boat
L04 F-series triplex mud pumps
M02 Aerospace equipment
[ and on and on, the rest of this deleted... ]
No, this page is about people who insist that they want me
to sell something to them, even when they have found me
through a collection of pages that clearly state that I
do nothing of the sort.
I usually send them a bid or a proposal or a quote,
just nothing that they are likely to find very useful.
Click below to see the correspondence.
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Simu Construction Company, Ltd,
located at No. 42 Chinika Industrial Site,
off Mumbwa Road, P.O. Box 50980, Lusaka, Zambia,
wrote to ask
how much I would charge to deliver to Lusaka
(by land, no less...)
enough stainless steel 1-man and 2-man
urinals, WC's, and wash basins
to outfit 46 public lavatories.
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Ittehad Chemicals Ltd, of Lahore, Pakistan,
wanted
my quote on two dozen teflon-lined cast-iron
valves suitable for 80-90% sulphuric acid
in
OPERATION PAKISTANI BALLDROP, PART ONE
-
Yes, of course there was a
OPERATION PAKISTANI BALLDROP, PART TWO,
as
Ittehad Chemicals Ltd
contacted me again, this time to
inquire as to my ISO-14001 certification to
be their supplier of industrial chemical
control valves.
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Atlantic Gulf & Pacific Company of Manila
saw that I have
an information security page
on which I list some reference books I find useful,
and immediately concluded that
I obviously sold books.
I proposed
OPERATION MANILA BOOKLIFT.
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Metito Overseas Ltd,
a water and wastewater treatment and water desalination
company in the United Arab Emirates, wanted me to
construct 25 lavatory service pits and 25
potable water pits at the Bahrain airport.
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The unfortunately named
Seman Peru
asked me to
provide a quote for a number of B737-500
aircraft parts.
I took the opportunity to explain the previously
referenced
SVERDLOVSK GAMBIT.
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Hadabs Ventures Limited
wished to urgently inquire about
ordering some train toilets
like those used by the Maryland state
commuter rail system, prompting
OPERATION MARLOW-WILLARD.
