Most don't even seem to read your specifications. They just send you some canned email. At least that was my experience.

What did you request for?

Well, I try it, I got two, both seem very good and what I want. I am going to use one of them.

AndyC,

If you are asking for loads of stuff for next nothing, then I wouldn't expect a response back.

I would be a little more patient and think through a bit more before requesting a quote.

I agree totally, it's rubbish. I have tested it out previously and you might aswell get an autoreply because thats what it is really ...

Dan

What were you guys requesting for? Maybe generally the suppliers weren't interested in supplying the requested specifications?

Did you subscribe for the newsletter or mailing?

Hmm...

Might be I should try it to test it too ;)

AndyC what specifically did you ask for and what is that you are not happy?

I used it a couple of days ago. One of the things I asked for was a phpinfo.php I can view. This is a simple request, so it's obvious that whoever didn't give me it never even read my e-mail. Two people supplied it, Micfo.com and WebZPro.com. Micfo had a really nicely written letter, no copy-pasting at all, well laid out, informative, written by "Nicole Forman", so props to her. WebZPro was a quick copy+paste but with a link to the phpinfo inserted.

Hostquote is fine for people looking for cheapy hosting. I wouldnt recommend anyone use it who is looking for viable hosting, for a business for example.

I had some good replies and some that I threw straight into the trash. I also got some automated answers. I think it happened because I asked on a weekend. On monday morning the sales department gave me some more information.
i didn't decide until now.

I used host quote just once and was very clear that I wanted a specific operating system installed (Trustix) on a dedicated server to lease.

I got one (possibly two) decent replies but the rest were pointless AIM messages and the most annoying emails from Superbservers trying to sell me a redhat server (yeah... I'm stupid and specifically ask for something when I want something else!). I got exactly the same spam... oops, email from them for the next three days and had to send a rather abrupt email back telling them to take me of whatever daily mailing list they had me on.

Seemed to be an utter waste of time.

I saw offer in dedicated offer forum with Trustix, maybe you want to look at those offers?

From the hosts' point of view, I think that the things some people ask for are just out of hand. Things that ROI goes to infinity instead of a couple months.

I got about 10 responces 4 or 5 looked alright. I ended up replying to Micfo and have been very happy with them so far.

I used it and didn't find it helpful at all. For one thing, the form is very vague. I had to cram the details into the small comments box. I also didn't know that the hosts weren't allowed to contact me by PM until after I submited. I received few emails and the ones I got weren't even that close to what I wanted (offering far more space/bandwidth than I could ever use).

It was a waste of time and effort, I wouldn't recommend it to anyone. Instead, I'd say they were better off checking findmyhosting.com and going by personal recommendations (which is what I ultimately did).

I think what hurts findmyhosting.com is that, for example, inMotion was one of the top results when I did a search there, yet they're basically a scam company with many fake reviews strewn around the 'net.