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Posted:  27 Feb 2009 17:08

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Can I get an honest opinion of MFG Quote? We used to belong and worked the system for year. We generated about 3 jobs. 1 was a company out of someone's garage (that I didn't realize at the time) and he promptly stiffed us for money. (1) turned out to be an OK account (but we got the MFGquote job with them on a misquote and probably lost 10% on tooling). (1) was what seemed like a good company, but the project never got off the ground.

Does anyone have real success stories with MFG Quote?
Posted:  17 Mar 2009 01:36

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At least you generated 3 jobs.  I haven't heard of any success stories from anyone else.

We had a one year subscription, ended up spending a lot of time quoting mediocre projects, and didn't get any of them, despite aggressive followup.  We found that most of the posts were placed for price checking purposes.  Those that were legitimate posts tended to go to the lowest bidder (typically an Asian source).  One of the propsects that we followed up with indicated that we were one of 30 companies to bid on the job.

Mike Walter
Posted:  17 Mar 2009 15:05

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We have investigated / tried it several times as well and have never generated a real job out of the effort.


Viking Plastics

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Posted:  24 Mar 2009 23:56

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We tried for a year about 3 years ago.  Lots of tire-kickers but nothing compelling.  Good web search engine however.

Eric Paules
Posted:  25 Mar 2009 11:50

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I'm glad I checked the discussion forum today.  We have been looking at MFG.com for several months and did not like the vibes we were getting.

Thank you guys for posting!

Matt Hlavin
Posted:  25 Mar 2009 15:30

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We have investigated MFG, Globalspec, First Index, etc. and found them to be too time consuming for the value. The merit that these services may offer is to "mine for contacts" not necessarily for projects. If this fits your marketing plan, they may a resource.

I personnaly feel that the contacts that we reviewed within broad spectrum web index or auction sites are not the customers that we want. They are more like project spammers selling Viagra. They use a very impersonal broadcast media to sell opportunity for a service that is personal.

Best wishes,
Mark Hanaway
Posted:  25 Mar 2009 15:59

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We had a bad experience with First Index years ago.  Sounds like things haven't changed much.   

Tom Houdeshell

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