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Formal Inquiry Dialogue 1 What price per set do you suggest of Article No.
1278 with Lisbon as the destination port?
In what currency would you like us to give the price?
Better in dollars.
Would you please give us an approximate idea of the quantity you require?
The size of our order depends greatly on piece.
I think it's better for you to quote us your price first.
Let me see.
It's $600 per CIF Lisbon.
Isn't it possible to give us a discount?
If your order is a large one, that's probable.
What do you mean by a large one?
I mean that we'll consider giving some discount only when the order exceeds a total amount of 10000 or over.
How much is the maximum or minimum discount?
Okay, I see.
I will try to buy in a bulk.
Dialogue 2
Here is my inquiry list.
I would like to have your lowest quotation.
Thank you for your inquiry.
Here are our CIF price lists.
Are they the lowest prices?
Of course.
They're only for old friends like you.
All the prices in the lists are the lowest prices.
But could you quote us FOB prices?
Okay.
We'll have FOB prices worked out by this evening and let you have them tomorrow morning.
By the way, can you quote in Australian dollars, since the exchange rate for US dollars has been strong recently?
I can do that for you as well.
Thank you very much.