From the Asus Eee News, Mods and Hacks -

As is often with our projects, we recently started negotiations for procuring 7" laptops for a client's proposed campaign give-aways. We contacted several manufacturers and/or trading companies. As part of our further inquiry to a specific manufacturer, we asked "What is the lowest price for your PC701 LX with Wifi? Our target price is under USD100 FOB. Current negotiations with potential suppliers range from USD80 - USD97. While price is a primary consideration, we also factor in reliability and after-sales support."

Imagine our surprise and shock when we received this response (printed verbatim):

Dear Sir,

In case you are ignorant, there are only 2 manufacturers producing 7" laptops. We are one of the two and our only competitor is offering it at USD10 more expensive. All the rest suppliers are our middle agents or trading companies. If you think you can buy PC701-LX with WiFi at the price range you mentioned, try to do business with them and good luck. We have time cost and please contact us only if you seriously want to do business with quality manufacturer.

Yours sincerely,
Eric So
Sales Manager
Exon International Technology Co Ltd

Considering this is a reply for a pre-sales inquiry, we have to wonder how they treat clients with quality or tech support problems. And the guy is supposed to be the Sales Manager of a company that claims to be a major player. And quite frankly, we contacted them because they are supposed to be price competitive, not because they are known for quality. Boy oh boy.
A follow-up post from the same site -

It seems news travel real fast with the Interenet. There are currently two forum discussions on our earlier post, The Rude Arrogance of a Sales Manager. One is in the tipidpc forum and another one is in Chikkada.

I guess the crass arrogance of the guy is shockingly unbelievable as quite a few members questioned the authenticity of the email messages. Trust me - as shocking as the incident is, it is real. There is simply no reason for us to fabricate such matters. We are as shocked as you are that is why we posted it here - to find out if we are overreacting. Judging from the feedback, it is obvious we are not.

In fact, here is Mr. Eric So's subsequent reply (which was also posted in the comments of the first post) -

"Our company did not lose any client. It is funny that an idiot and a beggar like you regards yourself "client". Before contacting any Chinese supplier check whether you have received any pocket money from your loser mother.

Yours sincerely,
Eric So
Sales Manager
Exon International Technology Co Ltd
www.exon-technology.com"

That is word for word. Trust me, we are not capable of writing (fabricating) such crass insults. It simply exhibits a lack of breeding and simple sensibility.