Business Verbiage

bobbybaker · 3 Apr 2018

Hi everyone,

So every year we reach out local vendors for my college's Campus Fair to see if they can donate in-kind donations such as snacks, supplies, or services for free or at a discounted rate (if it's within our budget)

There were a few vendors who reached out to sell us a few items and we wanted to know how to say this:

"Unfortunately, we are a club fully funded through students, and are unable to provide a compensation for the item. Thank you for your consideration."

ご連絡ありがとうございます。残念ですが学生から寄付金で集めたクラブなので商品を払えません。

Does this sound okay?

Mike Cash · 3 Apr 2018

I don't think 残念 works well there. Try あいにく instead.

You don't 払う a 商品, you 払う a 商品代

寄付金 is inappropriate. Try 会費 instead. (会費のみで運営するクラブ)

"Verbiage", not "verbage".

You're at college in America but you're having to deal with monolingual Japanese vendors?

bobbybaker · 3 Apr 2018

Mike Cash said:
I don't think 残念 works well there. Try あいにく instead.

You don't 払う a 商品, you 払う a 商品代

寄付金 is inappropriate. Try 会費 instead. (会費のみで運営するクラブ)

"Verbiage", not "verbage".

You're at college in America but you're having to deal with monolingual Japanese vendors?

Thank you for your reply

ご連絡ありがとうございます。あいにくですが学生から会費のみで運営するクラブなので商品代を払えません。

As for the monolingual company, we would actually contact a local vendor here but there are times that we are referred to the main branch depending on the items we solicit (in Japan). I hope that makes sense

Mike Cash · 3 Apr 2018

Your next useful vocabulary item is たらい回し

bobbybaker · 3 Apr 2018

Mike Cash said:
Your next useful vocabulary item is たらい回し

As in delegating a task to someone else?

Mike Cash · 3 Apr 2018

As in "getting the run-around"

Toritoribe · 3 Apr 2018

bobbybaker said:
ご連絡ありがとうございます。あいにくですが学生から会費のみで運営するクラブなので商品代を払えません。

It's understandable enough. Here's a little bit revised version.

ご連絡ありがとうございます。あいにくですが、学生からの会費のみで運営するクラブですので代金をお支払いすることができません。申し訳ありません。

bobbybaker · 5 Apr 2018

Toritoribe said:
It's understandable enough. Here's a little bit revised version.

ご連絡ありがとうございます。あいにくですが、学生からの会費のみで運営するクラブですので代金をお支払いすることができません。申し訳ありません。

Thank you! I had already sent out the message but I have saved your revised version for future templates.

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