Haggling the markup

[BCClone]

One thing I don't do whenever negotiating is lowball the person unless that is the max that I will go. I have had others do it and they seem confused when I jack the price up in response to their offer.

 

[isu22andy]

Dish really irked me off today, DVR stopped working, lady offers a FREE upgrade and FREE installation for new DVR system.... with a $30/Mo fee she wouldnt tell me about till I asked. Then I said no way screw that, its gotta be close to what im paying now. So she callls her "promotions manager" gets the price to 103 a month. So Im like wtf Im paying 96 a month now why should I pay more since YOUR DVR broke. She basically strong armed me said thats the best I can do, so I said Ill call you back after I call direct tv and she let me go.

 

[clonebb]

I got lasik eye surgery done for just over half price.

So they just did one eye. Not a great deal.

 

[Tailg8er]

One thing I don't do whenever negotiating is lowball the person unless that is the max that I will go. I have had others do it and they seem confused when I jack the price up in response to their offer.

Reminds me of when we were selling our first house a couple years ago.

Day 1 we get an offer that was 15-20% below list. Mark Charter advised me against countering with a number above asking, but I really wanted to.

By the next day we had 2 other offers & ended up selling just over asking price.

 

[8bitnes]

There's some real dirt bags on here haha . Anyone know if you can haggle on a firearm in a box store like Scheels ? I have a large gift card I need to use along with a buddy .

Yes, you can. True story, I once successfully haggled on shoes at FootLocker.

 

[SECyclone]

What's your secret? I can't even get CW to give me a coupon.