I read that and it seems like the person is talking about not getting a special free quota he had and that he was in negotiations for (but had not heard back yet)?
That seems like a completely different situation to me than a paying customer who wants to increase their quota.
Note that this translates to "give Google more money" so I don't know why you think this is something like begging.
On Amazon, they also want to make money and they happily increase quotas. They just want to know what's up, if you're a legitimate customer who's really going to pay them and not do a chargeback on the credit card the first month, etc.
Did you ask them to increase your quota?
http://code.google.com/support/bin/request.py?contact_type=A...