Absolutely! And having to tolerate annoying and intrusive sales people

Especially considering that most of the time you'll sit on hold which can be awhile

If the company says "call" I ain't even going to bother because my 30 minutes is more valuable to me than whatever price they could say 99.9% of the time

Exactly

Reward the company that respects me enough to not waste my time

Sometimes you can blame the partnership agreement for that. Some manufacturers will have a MAP (minimum advertised price) and the distributor would be in violation of their contract if they showed it publicly.

Though that just shifts to being a manufacturer problem with the same result. Just saying it may not be the distributor being weird about pricing.

If I have to ask for a price, I ain't bothering

Timber merchants in the UK. The ones that don't list prices are cheaper. Largely because they base their prices on the current price of wood. Those that advertised prices need a higher margin to tolerate fluctuations in the price of wood.

With office furniture it's a little more common.

They like that sweet and stupid startup money.

Just had one with atlantis. Straight up asked for the pricing of 17sqm delivered to metro melbourne.

'Oooh it depends on faaaactors. Tell ya what, how 'bout i get one of our sales guys to call you and work out the best product solution"

"Nope, 17sqm product xx, plus delivery to metro melbourne. That's it'

'Yes but factors'

Fucking bye Felicia