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I'm a buy-high, sell-low kinda guy. Yeah, I
know...
I try to set a fair price on something I'm selling, and if a
potential buyer wants my bottom price I tell him I don't like to bid against
myself, come up with a counteroffer and we'll go from there. If the
'negotiations' aren't going anywhere, I suggest we sleep on it and he can get
back to me.
--Roger van Hoy, Washougal, WA, '55 DeSoto, '58 DeSoto, '56
Plymouth, '66 Plymouth, '41 Dodge
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Friday, November 16, 2007 3:00
PM
Subject: Re: [FWDLK] what's your bottom
dollar?
I've had a couple times when looking to buy a car
that I've had to tell the guy (usually at a dealership) that the only way I'd
buy the car is if they give it to me for a couple hundred bucks. It
usually finally tells them to leave you alone...at least about that certain
car.
As for people selling a car and a buyer asks the
"bottomline," it doesn't really surprise me, but I wonder how many people ask
that question and actually expect a straight answer. Maybe they were
never taught the art of negotiating but simply think they need to make one
offer and that will either be a sale or a no sale.
I suppose the best response is to just tell them
to look at the price on the window and if they don't like it they can make an
offer.
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Friday, November 16, 2007 7:36
AM
Subject: Re: [FWDLK] what's your bottom
dollar?
I know that some people, and that
included me until I was in my 30's, (long time ago) are on the shy
side when dickering with sellers. I was with a friend of mine
when he was dealing on a car and he was afraid to make the offer he thought
he could live with. When the salesman walked out of the room, I asked
if he wanted me to say anything to the sales guy. He asked me.. "How
do you do that, I am almost embarrassed to tell him what I would
pay." I said to him,
" Bob, your wife tells you no all the time, and you live thorugh that.
Just ask, all he can say is no"
John in WI
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Friday, November 16, 2007 12:30
AM
Subject: Re: [FWDLK] what's your
bottom dollar?
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