http://www.valueireland.com/2009/04/dundalk-chamber-of-commerce-fail/ Better Purchasing Decisions Through Better Information Wed, 28 Jul 2010 19:41:09 +0100 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://www.valueireland.com/2009/04/dundalk-chamber-of-commerce-fail/comment-page-1/#comment-1764 LOB Thu, 30 Apr 2009 23:41:00 +0000 http://www.valueireland.com/?p=2866#comment-1764 You can't be serious! They got only three quotes all together? I needed to source half a dozen simple ID cards for my company for a short term contract, and in the space of only two hours, I rang ten companies around the country and got quotes from €150 to €25. It wasn't rocket science. If that's all the better they can do at shopping, I think they are in the wrong calling. They need lessons from those of us who have learned to survive on shoestring budgets. Oh, wait--they have learned: they went North, like the rest of us. You can’t be serious! They got only three quotes all together? I needed to source half a dozen simple ID cards for my company for a short term contract, and in the space of only two hours, I rang ten companies around the country and got quotes from €150 to €25. It wasn’t rocket science. If that’s all the better they can do at shopping, I think they are in the wrong calling. They need lessons from those of us who have learned to survive on shoestring budgets. Oh, wait–they have learned: they went North, like the rest of us.

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