Posts

I was of the opinion you are not supposed to write down card details at all in the first place?

No crime committed, but i'd be onto trading standard regardless, and go as high as you can in the dealership plus contact the manufacturer with a warning you will go public with it. Stay professional, write professionally - don't whine and moan and make it personal or emotional (I was really upset that you....), stick to facts and figures and actually what happened. Letting them know how you feel let's them know how to deal with you based on how you appear to come across (emotional mug they can mess around with, for example).

Stay factual and they cannot guess your next move and will take you more seriously. If you use certain words they may also believe you have sought legal advice. Words like Duty of Care, Negligence, Insurance Risk and so on.

aww where has your sense of fun gone people??!!

Like anything celebrated, it is always optional but it is a way of bringing folk together who might not otherwise make the effort. Kind of kickstarts people to start thinking of others, and you don't have to go mad in the shops ....

But what is £20 on a card and bunch of flowers once a year? I mean, it's what you'd spend on a takeaway without thinking twice. I bet folk don't stop to think takeaways and fast foods etc are a waste of money and instead stop at home and cook a nutritional meal and avoid the hype of eating out in fancy places who just upsell and cross sell to steal your money on unhealthy options!

It's not just valentines day, easter or xmas, they all want your money. That's business, folks!

But they rejected the others in the series as they were not similar enough, so that means someone could come along with one of those others on an individual basis, and it would be accepted. It would anyway if it was in a different class.

everyone is now on Facebook to buy and sell something. enough said really.

I wondered how i'd missed all those episodes! Durrr!!

hehe, happens every time guaranteed....the first warm sunny day after a miserable cold/wet spell and the orders come flooding in (across all my businesses not just web design). Does anyone else suffer from this phenomenon?

Yeah, nice story that and quite amazing really, it may go like Stephen's did and go up to millions at the rate it's been going.

Since it is random when it's working fine or not, has any other interference been rules out. Lord knows what, i'm thinking like tv's can be affected by car remote controls, other RC's, speakers and signals, and so on. Like some sort of radio wave interference or whatever. Maybe every time you put thee kettle on??!! haha

I'd see negotiation differently to haggling. But that's just me as I take some words literally. In my mind, hagglers want the full thing for a lesser price. They don't commit anything more to the seller to get that lower price other than they are a standard buyer. 

Negotiators on the other hand, do exactly that. They negotiate to do a deal where they may vary the "thing" service or product or vary the volume, etc. So for example, buying more than one might be worthy of a lower price, varying the service level, the product quality, and so on. So you reach a compromise that you are both happy with at the price charged.

In the haggle version, the seller can somehow feel peeved even though they didn't have to agree to it. Especially when buyer comes back weeks or months later asking for some loyalty. "I bought this from you last year" (fails to say they got £100 knocked off!) and can they have more for the same price, or can they have repairs at a lower rate because they bought something from you.

I find that once you enter this game they play, they expect it every time from you and woe betide you don't partake! You'd be the bad bugger then no doubt!

Obviously it varies on what it is, and from whom, as to whether haggling or negotiating is the thing to do...or not. You have to gauge the industry and chat to the seller to see if you feel its appropriate.

How I haggle, if you like, is not to ask for a price reduction, but to excuse myself from why I do not want to purchase as I can't afford it, and they may then make the first move and offer a lower price, or some kind of inviting deal. This way, I never asked for money off, it was completely their idea and suggestion, thus the loyalty usually remains intact. Because here, the seller did the maths in their head, decided it was worth it no matter what, and talks themselves into it. Hagglers talk people into something they might later regret, much like sales people do. It's on the spot, difficult to say no, etc, and a play on the persons emotion and personality.