Rude, stupid or ignorant???

[firewoodman]

i recieved the following email from someone unknown yesterday (this is cut and pasted exactly):-

 

Subject: REPLY

 

Message: hi im lookin to start up my own bussiness selling fire wod fire lighters and stuff can u email ur prices in tonnes please many thanks

 

 

that was all of it, no introduction, no signature:thumbdown:

 

was'nt sure how to reply, thought about it, read the "How do i identify ash" thread, and replied with the following

 

Not really mate.

I know as much about you, as you know about the industry, how to spell and request information.

Best of luck to you, and if this is how you go about starting up then you have already failed!!

 

i did feel like asking him if he would like a copy of the accounts and the location for all the keys to the yard!!!

 

feel free to let rip ( i know you will anyway).... how would you have replied???

[TimberCutterDartmoor]

Would not have replied - simply did not warrant an answer.

[firewoodman]

Would not have replied - simply did not warrant an answer.

 

i know but i couldnt help myself

[TimberCutterDartmoor]

The fact that the subject was "Reply" sets alarm bells ringing - a virus?

[western]

what a cheeky bugga!

[Stephen Blair]

welcome to the text generation.

[Dave Martin]

I would not have replied but I would have had had a feeling of security when I considered the quality of the competition

[sean]

all 3!!!!

[Mark Bolam]

Dear newcomer,

 

My prices are currently £15/tonne for seasoned hardwood cut and split to size, delivered. With free kindling.

 

See how he feels about competing with that.

 

What a chancer!

[Mozza]

Thats abit cheeky aint it :sneaky2: