In article 1120762961.775979.240150
@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com, says...
It's more along the lines of the 7-11 clerk looking at you, saying "I
like how you look, come in the store" and then the clerk looking at the
next person and saying "I don't like how you look, go away, you can't
come in". I'm trying to tell you how to look nice for the clerk, not
how to hide something in your coat and walk out.

McMaster isn't keeping you out of the store by not giving
you a catalog.


Remember, I'm coming from doing the job of having to tell a guy who
would buy from us a lot if he had a catalog that he can't have one,
give him some lame reason and refer him to our website instead, because
he doesn't have enough employees for his SIC code or because he has the
"wrong" job title. It breaks your heart after a while.

I don't doubt that plenty of deserving folks are refused a
catalog. I've been frustrated myself in the past trying to
get one. But it is McMaster's call, and I personally don't
feel right about fibbing in this situation.

Ned Simmons