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1) If, for whatever reason, you don’t think the quoted price is legitimate, please kindly inform us of your target price. Our sales teams would be glad to work around your budget.
2) If, for whatever reason, you don’t think the quoted price is legitimate, please kindly inform us of your target price, our sales teams would be glad to work around your budget.
Please kindly advise on the use of comma in the above two sentences. Any help appreciated.
The second version is a classical example of a comma splice, which some also consider a run-on-sentence.
It is not grammatically wrong (punctuation is not about grammar), but rather poor stylistically. Separate sentence should be separate, especially if your sentence already is long to begin with. The latter Wikipedia link also offers other remedies such as a semicolon or a coordinating conjunction. In your case, I recommend a simple period.
