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  • Gynecologist
    Confirmed User
    • Sep 2004
    • 2184
    #1

    Doing business with people from certain countries

    Why is it that when you do business with someone from specific parts of the world (eastern Europe, South America, Asia) they often ask you how much you will pay them for a product instead of just telling you the price?

    Fucking annoying.

    Customer: "I am interested in buying a blue widget. How much does that cost? "

    Seller: "How much are you willing to pay? "
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    • Ross
      Ik ben een aap
      • Sep 2002
      • 18874
      #2
      Originally posted by Gynecologist
      Why is it that when you do business with someone from specific parts of the world (eastern Europe, South America, Asia) they often ask you how much you will pay them for a product instead of just telling you the price?

      Fucking annoying.

      Customer: "I am interested in buying a blue widget. How much does that cost? "

      Seller: "How much are you willing to pay? "
      Its called haggling

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        • luciferex
          Registered User
          • Dec 2003
          • 84
          #3
          Originally posted by Ross
          Its called haggling
          and dats business
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            • tranza
              ICQ: 197-556-237
              • Jun 2003
              • 57559
              #4
              Idiot.
              I'm just a newbie.

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                • Gynecologist
                  Confirmed User
                  • Sep 2004
                  • 2184
                  #5
                  Originally posted by tranza
                  Idiot.

                  Savage

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                    • Paul Markham
                      Too old to care
                      • Jun 2001
                      • 52942
                      #6
                      Because they are desperate to do business and think you will pay more than they are willing to take.

                      I quote a price and that's it. Hate it when someone reduces it all to the level of a bazaar.

                      I say 100, he says 50,
                      I say 100 he says 55,
                      I say 100 he says I'm not playing the game and offers 60.

                      I tell him to go jump in a lake, I thought this was business not a game.

                      Negotiating is a little more intense and complicated than that.



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                        • Babaganoosh
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                          • Nov 2001
                          • 15841
                          #7
                          It's pretty annoying. I have been quoted $10K to do an outsourced job but after a few minutes of talking with them, it's down to $500.
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                            • Gynecologist
                              Confirmed User
                              • Sep 2004
                              • 2184
                              #8
                              I am very well-traveled throughout the Middle East and North Africa where haggling over the price is the norm. This is fine with me because the merchant will SET A PRICE and then you work down from there. What I don't like is when the merchant just says "well how much are you willing to pay"?

                              And, this would even be acceptable to me in a street bazaar when buying a trinket but in bigger business it is freaking silly.

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                                • kaliboy2g
                                  So Fucking Banned (YEA!!)
                                  • Jun 2004
                                  • 10963
                                  #9
                                  The main reason is that they think you will offer more than it they would charge.

                                  I hate the practice personally.

                                  If im dealing with someone and im the seller. And the buyer is serious about taking the lowest price that i can offer or he leaves, then i will offer him my lowest price and say i cant go down any more and that it.
                                  Care about me?
                                  Who?
                                  Me!
                                  Who?

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