My Talk with Karan from A&T Soft OR How to Deal with Unsolicited Skype People

The other day I got an authorization request from someone I thought was with AT&T. I always like hooking up with big brands online. Damnit though, it was just someone soliciting their services... I get a lot of these. Don't get me wrong, we have found A LOT of very good remote developers this way, which is why I keep my Skype public. If this happens to you also, maybe you will find some of my responses useful. Especially my paste in bold below.

Authorization requested from Jeremy Schoemaker: Hi !! This is Karan from A&T Soft, we have come across your contact detail from skype directory. We work on website development, Mobile apps development and SEO. 11:08 AM Authorization granted to Karan Karan 11/25/10 9:38 AM Hello Jeremy 11/25/10 9:38 AM How are you doing? 11/27/10 11:40 PM Hi Jeremy 11/27/10 11:40 PM How are you doing? Jeremy 10:11 AM Hi, don't have time for chit-chat please get to the point of contacting me. Karan 10:32 AM Let us know if you have any projects regarding website development, mobile app development and SEO 10:33 AM You there? Jeremy 10:45 AM How we work with new people who solicit us is we give them a small task and then evaluate their work... and if it's satisfactory we will hire them to do something more in-depth. If this is something you are interested in, let me know and I can have our team spec something simple out. Karan 10:46 AM okay as far as we get paid 10:46 AM Jeremy 10:47 AM We don't pay for the initial trial. We would give you a very trivial task to evaluate your competency. You solicited me out of the blue. So you know who I am and what I can do for your company if you are any good. OR you have no clue who I am or what we do and you are just mass spamming people on skype. Either way, an initial trial of a simple task helps us sort out who is legit and who is not. It's really a question of how much you believe in your work and if you think it's good enough that we would want to work with you in the future. If you don't believe in your own work then how can I ? Karan 10:47 AM We know how to work and we work very well..We cannot work without getting paid 10:47 AM sorry Jeremy 10:47 AM No worries, it took me less than 2 minutes to find out you have no confidence in the work you provide. Much better than paying you to do something and being out my time + money. 10:47 AM Best of luck to you in the future Karan 10:47 AM thanks