Hello everyone
My brother and I went to the local flea market a few days ago and It was an amazing fun day out on the town digging through the good old grey cartridge bins from the old folks again as we all know well.
And one thing I noticed while we were out conversing with the flea market folks is that the art of being able to negotiate is so essnetial with both selling and buying video games. My brother is a master at the art of the deal and talking turkey with the pros and so are many other buyers that frequent the flea market scenes make it look so easy but I think they know i'm new at it and always see me coming if I dare to dive into the shark waters of negotiating
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It's almost a science when he starts to break down their goods and I don't think I have ever seen him be denied a lower price offer. Which is good because in this age of cutthroat resellers anyway, the lower you can get them the closer it can get to the actual price
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By being around him though I have implimented some of his tactics to decent and mixed results. Along with some of my own methods. But it's kinda a touch and go thing where it takes years of mastering as a craft. I have lowered most people but not by much. Not like how he does it.
His tactics change order a lot but they always comprise of this list.
1. Find a flaw with the item even if minute or barely noticable, inform them that it hurts it's value. (make them undervalue their own goods)
2. Say another vender has it for cheaper down yonder somewhere else in the flea market
(Play on their competitive nature to outsell the competition)
3. Have a child who wants it. (My brother has an advantage over me in the art of the negotiating, he has an adorable 8 year old kid who gives the cute begging kid face and sometimes even cries as a last line of defense) I don't think anyone unless they got the thousand yard stare and have seen some stuff can ever say no lol.
4. Bundle two games you want together and use the classic groupon (The buyer usually gives a pitty decrease because you are spending more)
And many more tactics as well
All and all how well are you in the negotiation field? For me I used to always be the like the price buy it, don't like it than don't kinda guy that would rarely ask for a lower price. I'm not very good at being stern or walking away or getting turned down on an offer so I usually just try to avoid it But I know now that I wasted a lot of good oppurtunities to go even lower and get good deals
. I guess I felt bad for the vendors and didn't want to talk them down but now I realized they get those lots of games for dirt cheap off the unexpecting so they should go lower than what they do anyhow
Have you ever gotten an amazing deal by talking someone down and being a good negotiator?
Where would you rate yourself on the negotiator scale?
1. You'd pay 40 bucks for a Mario Duck Hunt for NES if they offered you
2. You aren't very good at negotiating with vendors or rarely try
3. You make offers but almost always get turned down
4. You get a 5 dollar decrease here and there but you usually just look for cheap stuff that's already low.
5. You get good results consistently but never an amazing deal.
6. You have gotten many of deal by the power of your negotiating
7. Vendors see you and put out their closed signs lol
8. You could sell ice to eskimo
9. You could convince mexico to fund the wall.
10. You are Rick from Pawn Stars lol