I had some damage to the siding on my house, and had to get some bids from some contractors. They gave me prices, and I picked the lowest one. When I gave the bad news to the other guys, they said, “I’ll talk to my manager to see if I can go that low.” At that point the deal was done. I’d signed with the low-price guy. <\/p>\n
I know how this game is played. They want to negotiate. I don’t. I don’t want to keep going back and playing one bid off another. I’ll do that professionally, if I have to, but not personally. <\/p>\n
Still, I should have told them up front that I wasn’t going to play that game. <\/p>\n
“Give me the best price you can live with, because you’re not getting a second swing at this work.” <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I had some damage to the siding on my house, and had to get some bids from some contractors. They gave me prices, and I picked the lowest one. When I gave the bad news to the other guys, they said, “I’ll talk to my manager to see if I can go that low.” At … Continue reading ““Give me your best price the first time””<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1419"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1420,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1419\/revisions\/1420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}