All I care about, on behalf of my employer, is the final price. I’m not afraid to make a few phone calls, or exchange a few emails, to find out how much someth

All I care about, on behalf of my employer, is the final price. I’m not afraid to make a few phone calls, or exchange a few emails, to find out how much something costs. It’s not hard, and it’s my job to do it. As for your guess that “call for price” businesses are always more expensive than those with pricing pages, from my experience you are wrong. All that matters is the company’s willingness to negotiate with me. In my experience there is essentially no correlation between that and whether they publish a pricing page.