October 2, 2009
Dear Mr. Spencer,
It was a pleasure to receive your inquiry of September 25 concerning the supply of our best air conditioners. We are enclosing our price list in which you will find full details of our usual trade discount.
We note that you have requested an additional discount of 5%, and we would like to point out that the prices of our products have already been cut to the bottom, which cannot be offered by our competitors. We therefore regret that we are unable to allow you any discount in this aspect. You can, however, be sure that any advantage we receive in the way of manufacturing costs is always passed on to you in the form of lower prices.
In spite of the increased costs of raw materials expected next year, we anticipate being able to maintain present prices by improving our automatic assembly line. We hope we will keep in our friendly business relationship in the future.
We look forward to your early reply.
October 2, 2009
Dear Mr. Spencer,
It was a pleasure to receive your inquiry of September 25 concerning the supply of our best air conditioners. We are enclosing our price list in which you will find full details of our usual trade discount.
We note that you have requested an additional discount of 5%, and we would like to point out that the prices of our products have already been cut to the bottom, which cannot be offered by our competitors. We therefore regret that we are unable to allow you any discount in this aspect. You can, however, be sure that any advantage we receive in the way of manufacturing costs is always passed on to you in the form of lower prices.
In spite of the increased costs of raw materials expected next year, we anticipate being able to maintain present prices by improving our automatic assembly line. We hope we will keep in our friendly business relationship in the future.
We look forward to your early reply.
October 2, 2009
Dear Dr. Johnson,
The Economics Department of National University is pleased to appoint you to be this year’s guest speaker at the university’s annual international symposium (研讨会), which will be held for one week from December 2nd to 9th, 2009. This year’s topic will be regarding Asia Financial Crisis. About 35 people from across many countries will be attending the symposium. They would be glad to meet you and share their problems and interests with you.
The university will pay fee according to the enclosed contract.
As the program is to be announced on October 17th, 2009, will you kindly let us know by that time whether your busy schedule will allow you to attend our symposium We are looking forward to your favorable reply.
Dean of the Economics Department of National University
October 8, 2010
Dear Sirs,
Many thanks for your offer (报价) dated August 26th for leather shoes and for the illustrated catalogues you very kindly sent us.
We appreciate the high quality of your goods, but unfortunately we are not in a position to accept the offer on your terms. Your prices appear to be on rather high side and they will leave us little or no margin of profit. As you may know, this is an area in which the principal demand is for goods in the medium price range, and leather shoes of the same quality from some other suppliers are now available in this market at much lower prices than yours. Some suppliers even offer a special discount of as high as 20% on orders exceeding $15 000.
Much as we would like to do more business with you, it is rather difficult for us to accept the prices you offered. Unless you can reduce your prices by 10%, we will have no choice but to satisfy our requirements elsewhere.
It is highly appreciated if
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