Haggle for love?
So - I finally got my salary offer for relocating - let's call it 15% on existing salary. Thanks, I said, but no thanks. Manager instantly said okay, 25% up on existing salary. WTH?So - my car insurance quote came through the door, £400. 16 years with the same company, 9 years no-claim bonus, that seemed high. Same post, another insurer offering good prices, I got a quote on line. Like-for-like, plus plus, £258. I rang my insurers to say I was cancelling and they instantly reduced the £400 quote to just over £300. WTH?
How far does this haggling thing go? Let's say I'm talking to someone and he suggests meeting for a casual pub lunch. Should I be haggling? Should I counter-offer "tell you what, send a taxi to collect me and by the way you're picking up the tab" just to open the negotiations, see what his counter-offer is?
Life is all about bargaining, we know that, but it seems to have gone into a new era where perhaps we have to haggle about everything. So should we be haggling about meeting up? Maybe you already do?
By the way, the World Health Organisation recently declared that anyone who can't find a partner (mainly for procreation, but I don't think they specified) within a year of starting to look, should be classified as disabled. WTH?
NOW who wants to open negotiations?
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It's not like adverse to showing the......... product.
When it comes to my life, there are some things that are non-negotiable, not many though. I am fairly flexible.
I would suppose when haggling become evident between two people with a relationship, it is about meeting each others' needs. If it got to the point where one was trying to take advantage of the other...well, it would be time to hang it up.
I could understand if it was first book published and you were excited to share the news with us. BUT this is pure haggling
So since I had just had 2 fairly unexpected haggles made me wonder whether I am missing a whole lot more
We are in a haggle culture, after all. For sure by the time it comes to setting up house or even getting married, there's a lot of negotiation. I sometimes get the impression some savvy singles start it earlier.
Or are you bluffing?
On second thoughts I fold . I don't want to see what your holding.
...blue stands and slowly backs away scanning the room for any means of escape,suddenly feeling very exposed and vulnerable
At least I left my hat on
The blog is a valid question, yeah? Or am I not to blog on any subject which in any way could touch on the fact that I am older, single or female, and on a singles website, or hide the fact that I write books about being older, single and female? Even cancel my profile? Which?
We all know Scotty and Sands, for example, buy and sell on the stock exchange for a living. Must they hide that fact? Snoek is in computers, I think she has mentioned that once or twice. Should she not?
I added a comment which does not contain any link to my product so complain away to the mods with my blessing
I hope you are happier now, I am not going to break the rules. Promise.
So the blog asks how far negotiation goes. Has anyone ever made a counter-offer, not as extreme as the one I suggested
I was cleaning house. My FAVOURITE occupation.
But thanks for the first answer even close to answering the blog
You never know if a lion is hiding in the veldt
You make a good point - we HAVE to be insured, so we're a fish in a tank.
However, the WHO - I might add this to the blog - in fact I think I will - have announced that anyone who can't find someone to love within a year of looking should be reclassified disabled.
That should spur us on. Well, depends if it carries government payouts, of course.
Hmmm.
If you meant me, I'm more the warthog type. I need to keep an eye out for cheetahs.
If anyone has the energy to post a link to that story, I would be exceedingly grateful. I'm all house-worked out and feel like a limp rag.
I don't look like one, though, she adds hastily. I look okay, and am Very Good at cleaning house (occasionally). What you bringing to this table, bud?
I do best on a professional level, never did I apply when
arg........ in dialogue with a woman though.
That's the problem with love, no negotiation upfront, and it all gets very expensive when it ends. May the best haggler win.
one also.
Peds, advice, no, blimey, me give advice? do I ever?
Are you making me an offer, or just thinking out loud?
Gone now. Back later
Haggle away
One sentence hidden in a wordy blog good on you then
Within a year, eh?
Well I did within a year of joining, and I am not yet a year on this side of it, so there is
plenty ofsome time yetYes yes that's advertising but I think we're okay, don't think Mr Sainsbury is a member