Price Negotiation Tactics

The cluster discusses strategies and tactics for negotiating prices in sales, deals, and services, including anchoring with high initial offers, counteroffers, haggling techniques, and psychological aspects like BATNA.

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Sample Comments

make3 Jan 6, 2018 View on HN

maybe it's a negotiation tactic/they want arguments to be able to offer less

pbhjpbhj Nov 21, 2009 View on HN

Was this one of those deals where you negotiate by making them wince first and then coming in with an offer that alone wouldn't have succeeded but now looks peachy (really nice) compared to the wince-inducing proposal.

nunez Jul 24, 2022 View on HN

ask for more than $xyz and reject if they offer less than $xyz.

snovv_crash Jan 26, 2022 View on HN

Just pay the initial asking price then?

cpach Dec 29, 2019 View on HN

Was it hard to negotiate/agree with them on the price?

VMG Nov 27, 2011 View on HN

They could still negotiate a price

QuasiAlon Mar 24, 2014 View on HN

I think merely seeing the haggle option would make the user understand it's just a suggested price nobody ever pays

jrockway Oct 22, 2023 View on HN

This is probably a negotiating tactic. Ask for the world, compromise down to what you're actually looking for.

sneak Apr 7, 2017 View on HN

It's not a con to negotiate a price and agree to it with mutual consent.Anchoring a prospective customer of your labor to a high price is not a con. Nothing forces them to take the deal.Please don't be a jerk.

selectodude Jan 8, 2021 View on HN

Because pricing on stuff like that is negotiable and they don't want people to have a starting point.