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Someone told me you can negotiate down the price of your newspaper subscription. Lo and behold, I got the bill yesterday and gave it a shot. Got about 30% shaved off. Win!
Tell us, what can we negotiate that we didn't know about.
Almost all medical care can be negotiated. With insurance it's a bit harder but you can negotiate some of your portion of the payment owed. Without insurance, it's a given that you negotiate.
Unless you are using some major corporate owned chain repair facility, virtually all automotive repairs (except low cost specials) can be negotiated from shop/book rates to a lower cost.
My neighbors told me you could negotiate the price of furniture at a local furniture store so I asked and received $100 off a $3000 order. My husband just laughed. He would have paid the extra $100 and not asked. I told him it would buy us a nice dinner out. I know there are people who are a lot more aggressive about it, I'm not (usually).
You can nearly always have penalties waived, if you call nicely and give a plausible explanation. If you can't, hang up and redial, get a different CS operator and try again.
My cable company, apparently, gave each operator a quota of discounts she could offer, to sweeten a sale, so you could keep calling until you got one.
I grew up around the car business and no one every came in without expecting something off.
Buy a new suit get alterations thrown in or socks?
Going to market and say the Banannas look a little ripe... how much for all of them?
Buying more than one of anything... expect a break... also works with remodels.
Hardly anything can't be negotiated...
I find myself negotiating service contracts and maintence agreements often...
A medical supplier might offer two years of coverage for a set price... I might come back guarantee the price for 4 years and I will sign it now.
Another tool is simply having the ability to extend if the price has not gone up... very effective... the alternative could take months for approval.
One of the reasons I like Real Estate is the entire process is negotiations.
I find keeping things simple to a yes or no effective.
Such as at this price we have a deal... at a higher price probably not.
A was tasked with ordering for company events... I come in with a budget in mind and we would make it work... amazing just how well it works when volume is on the table...
Each year I help at a local Christmas Tree Farm... some feel entitled to huge discounts saying you will never sell that tree or what will happen to the unsold trees?
Demeanor has a lot to do with results... those demanding are often shown the exit.
This last season 2100 trees sold... last day of business December 22... reason... ALL trees for the season sold.
Two years ago it was late in the season... a family with a little boy came in... there were only a few trees left... and they were large trees... the father explained to his son that the big trees cost more than the little ones and they just can't afford a big one and all the little ones were sold... the owner saw me talking to the family and asked so I filled him in... he said go back and tell the boy Santa wants him to have the tree for free... and it did!
The family was almost in tears... never seen such pure joy and excitement from a 6 or 7 year old...
Last edited by Ultrarunner; 01-17-2019 at 11:06 PM..
Cable bills can often be negotiated to a point. I heard you can negotiate with SiriusXM for satellite radio rates but haven't tried it.
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