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The biggest barriers to negotiating: Embarrassment and Pride

The main reason we don’t negotiate a great bargain is that we don’t even try – and the reason we don’t try is probably emotional: embarrassment and pride.  There’s also a fear of losing the deal, and shortage of time, which I’ll look at in a different post, but I think fear of looking stupid is the biggest reason of all.

What if they think you’re a cheapskate?  What if they just say “No, that’s the price” and then you have to say “Oh OK then I’ll pay the full price” – you look like a failed and weak negotiator who was just trying it on, …all rather pathetic.

What can be done?

Here’s a video that gives you the answers:

https://youtu.be/t_gFo8w8GOg

It features a rather hilarious story about when I tried to negotiate in H.Samuels to buy a watch as a present for my wife, and it got a bit out of hand.

Watch the video – it’s only short, you’ll enjoy it, and it’ll save you thousands in your future life:

https://youtu.be/t_gFo8w8GOg

onwards and upwards!

CC

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