322 sats \ 4 replies \ @0xIlmari 9 Jun \ on: How do feel about negotiating? culture
I absolutely hate negotiating.
This may be a shortcoming of being an introvert but I feel like I'm haggling on a flea market, cheapening/lowballing the product someone is offering or worse, being a poor beggar.
Like in a shop, I either accept the price on a tag and buy the product, or not and move on.
It depends on the scenario, but in general, I too hate the game.
I feel insulted and disrespected when I'm told the price is X and I know it is half that much somewhere else.
There must be a psychological reason this is done, ... like maybe the dopamine hit to the seller when maybe one out of ten shoppers actually simply agrees and pays.
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like maybe the dopamine hit to the seller when maybe one out of ten shoppers actually simply agrees and pays.
This could be true, and I've totally felt the same way before, but I'm beginning to think I've been cynical. They might have good reason to charge more and the only way to know is to ask or, if it's more comfortable to be indirect, begin negotiating.
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Look at it this way: my only way of "communicating" is to go somewhere else (in the sense of communicating a price signal).
This stems from several reasons:
- As an introvert, I optimize for having fewer interactions with people. So I will simply look for a better apparent offer and accept that (possibly) I could've haggled even more.
- I work under the assumption that the seller should know best what their product is worth. Highballing and betting that the buyer is not aware of the "real" price is scummy and I wouldn't want to deal with this person anyway.
- Living in the EU, I am used to price arbitrages being pretty much gone and price of everything being very close to "optimal", so there isn't much room for negotiation anyway.
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