7月中旬，我到一封询盘，主题是：“What is the delivery time on plastic product？”（乍一看，确实很泛泛，没有针对性，准备3等客户的），但正文还算正常并且似乎很友好，于是还是列入了二等客户范畴。大致如下：
We are sourcing company in*****.
We are looking for and a big manufacturer of plastic cup & plate who will be able to manufacture ery big quantity of anti aids plastic cups & plate .The need of this plastic cups & plate is to be used in the campaign against aids spread in the West/Sub sahara Africa .
Due to the rapide spread of aids and other veneral diseases in Africa coupled with the poor ignorant Africans who do not believe that aids really exist.
This cups & plate will he special loogo printed Aids is Real
最后一段 是署名和详细的方式包括公司名称，地址，电话，传真和手机。
像往常一样，我很积极的回复着邮件；和往常不一样的是，我回邮件时加了点所谓“拍马屁”的味道，赞美了他们这种慈善之举实乃让人敬佩，令人欣慰。同时要求对方给产品图纸和图片，确认产品材质，LOGO字体和样式，数量等信息，便于模具报价。静候回复。邮件内容如下：
Glad to receive your inquiry in such human touch. We'd like to show our gratitude and respect to you for your nobility and efforts on ati aids campaign.
You'd inquired the right company for such plastic cups and plates. We are a manufacturer of the plastic products who can provide OEM service, that is to say, we can produce the ideal products as you required including the logo, color, weight, shape, material, whatever.
No problem to print that words "Aids is Real ". (The only thing is you should let us know??the words style, Pantone Color and the place of it on the products.)
Besides, if you can provide the details of the following, it's better for us to serve you??in the next step.
1. pictures or drawings
2. materials
3. quantity ( better for us to decide the city of the mould)
Best Regards,
Yewtree
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第二天，回复就来了：
Thanks for your email, here in the Attachment I send you a Sample of how the Plate, the Cup and the Spoon will look like, （对比初次询盘，会发现这里凭空冒出一个SPOON，而我当时只是莫名其妙了下，却也没太在意） also the logos .so follow up with this samples below then be able to give us Quotation if you can Produce something near to this Samples.
The Logo that will be printed in each of this Items is "AIDS IS REAL" printed in a bold and noticeable places as shown in the samples.
1 ) The size is??SIZES HD911 =HD9111(DIA) 52.4MM? ?plate
HD9112??( DIA)? ?177.8MM
2)??REUSABLE??FLAT??SQUARE .
HD9129? ?(DIA)? ? 177.167MM
3) REUSABLE CUP( MID )
HD9131( DIA)??71.79MM
Quantity of the plate will be about seven million pcs and all so the cups, i dont know about the spoon for now, please after reading my mail if you he any question dont hesitate to contact me either my mobill no +22***** or maill.
Please understand that this Items are just for Campaign, so if you are able to make this Production then let me know .Sincerely, I would like to make this transaction very clear to you. My company is not the end buyer of the products. The products are??needed by the leading non-governmental organization in West Africa which the headquarters is located here in Cotonou, Benin .and they need the products for donations to charity organizations in Benin , Togo , Ghana and other West African countries.
落款依然层次分明。但奇怪的是明明邮件里说给我附件杯子、盘子和勺子的图片结果却只有一个杯子的图片。而且只字不提我要图纸或样品的事。
且带着这些疑问，继续，希望得到满意答复：
Thanks a lot your prompt reply with that detail. Again, our appreciation and applause for that campaign.
The answer for that production is YES. We can produce that products to your satisfactory with our 7 years experiences in plastic products and parts manufacturing.
However, we he the following points to make clear:
1. Pre-quotation as attached need your cooperation;
2. Since it's a new project, (you know, actually we do not he exactly the same products you are sourcing due to the fact that
we always design and produce what our clients looking for, and they are all different from each other.) we need to open new m[收起]
