This is a business writing discussion about a first email to a new client. It is not a letter to a friend, and it does not begin with a hope that the client is well. The question is whether that first note should name a price. Take one side. A price with no quantity is a different object from a price that names the unit and the date. Your reason must not copy the two posts already on the page. Open with a position, then a reason, then one example a finance reader can see.
Should the first email to a new client name a price? Take a side. Your reason must not copy the two posts. This is not a greeting.
Professor
A new client has asked for a price. Some people say the first email should name it, so the client can decide whether to continue. Others say the first email should only arrange a call, because a price on paper too early starts the relationship at a number. Should that first email name a price?
Ruth
Name it. A client who waits three days for a number will ask two other firms. The first email is a quote, not a greeting.
Tomas
Do not name it. A price with no volume and no date looks like a promise. Ask for the quantity first. The number can wait until the second note.
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The first sentence says whether the email names a price.
Your reason is not Ruth's three-day wait and not Tomas's missing volume.
If you use a figure, you name a unit, a date, or a quantity.