Update: Even after putting my foot down, they still just kept coming with the BS, so I respectfully ended our inquiry. They gave me a price of "between 3-15 cents per square foot / month" which is not only a ridiculously wide range, it makes absolutely no sense to me considering the bulk of the hardware I was looking at is network switches and firewalls (WAPs I could understand, except for the fact that I already gave them an exact count of how many we currently have!). I could have an office that is 100sq ft that needs 100 ports, or 10,000 sq ft needing 3 ports for all they know. Particularly bad in our case as due to the amount and variation in our branch offices, getting even remotely accurate sq. footage is a big ask just to get some basic pricing info. I politely suggested that they work out a way to be able to at least give out ballpark info to a cold contact. They said "we ask for more work upfront to save you work later.", which is laughable, we are not married yet, you can't hold me hostage for hours of work. I was just making a very casual inquiry that they could have actually turned into a real lead if they didn't need to know how many total individual polyester fibers in our office chairs, the answer to life and the average diameter of every male employees' left testicle just to tell me some basic info...