My favorite is the industrial supply lighting company type places that cold
call you in telling you how much they can save you in money to re-lamp your office with their cheap lamps.
They all have some "great deal" on some form of standard cool white bulbs no doubt from some off shore company and cheap. They would just love to come out and look at what types of lamps I'm using and price them out for me. As if I did not have a computer file with not only all lamps in use and the top five prices on them, but other files with every alternative lamp on the market to them. But go ahead and tell me the advantages of a 41k cool white lamp over a 30k warm white. What was the
CRI of your lamps? Ok, get back to me on that.
First, when I re-lamp the front office once a year, it's so minor in budget that while I
send the lamps out to bid, on the whole I probably spend more for a single xenon follow spot lamp than the whole of the fron office lights.
So it's a staggering conversation for me with the cold caller in holding back the punch
line much less just not hanging up while laughing. At some
point it's like this in about a once a year practiced routine: "do you know who you are calling? Do you know what we do here. If you had any faint concept of what we do, why would you be calling, much less be trying to sell me office lamps? But I'll be nice to you. We don't use cool white lamps in the office. We use GE F40/XL/SP30 lamps. I don't care how cheap your cool white lamps are, how much are these specific lamps? Would you like the part number?"
"Oh, I see, you will have to get back to me on those prices." Never seem to get a
call back, much less are they interested in coming in to bid on the rest of the lamps. Much less half the time, my prices on cool white lamps are cheaper than theirs already.
When not busy actually a times I don't mind sales people cold calling. It's entertaining at times. With the
gaffers tape samples, it was kind of like that but you never know when you might find some useful company. I get my tape from both the manufacturer and tape cutters who take large wide spools of them and cut them into usable widths. I have a lot of misc. suppliers direct for the types of tape I use. Of note however is that the prime manufacturer just sent me a letter saying they are having an across the board increase in price for the second time this year of 3%. In other words, finding new sources is not a bad idea because if the manufacturer is raising prices, the others will follow suite soon. But these guys had no idea of what
gaffers tape was. Reminded me more of some from the forum that use
duct tape. This tape if decent in price would at least be a better alternative in being for the most part
flat in color instead of shiny. Beyond that I tossed a
roll to the shop manager and told him I was switching to it. He laughed and threw it back at me.
In any case, true cable path tape is on the permiciel website and it has a gap without adhesive in the middle. For the one time it was used as cable path tape, it had to be majorly reinforced also with other tape just as yours did.