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Negotiate good price

I went to a dealer last week and listen to some really sweet pieces.  I was ready to throw down some coin but am confused about the dealers approach.  He comes in the room and says how is everyhting.  I say it is amazing this is just the sound I am looking for.  He says okay and leaves.  Comes back in 10 minutes and I am ready for hardball.  I sit back with my hands above my head in an inviting posture and say- can you beat prices that I see on Audiogon?  He says he will be right back- great i think he knows- I know my stuff.  Another guy comes in and says he needs to use the room for a client.  I say where is the other guy and he says he's on the phone.  So I wait in the lobby for 20 minutes and don't see anyone. I left my name on a paper and put it on the desk and ask him to call me with the best he can do on the system because I can buy some of it on AUdiomart.  I asked my wife and she thinks that's too hardball- maybe i should have lied and said I'm shopping around for best price.
Any info on how to speed pitch softballs?   
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millercarbon
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If you really are serious and really do know what you want, and their market prices, and really are prepared to buy, then you could hardly have picked a worse way to handle it. Because the reason I say really over and over again is there's what people say, and there's what people do. And what you did was perfectly in line with a totally unserious buyer. Saying things like speed pitch softballs only serves to heighten my skepticism. The icing on the cake is your one post. Do this a lot, do you?  

Still, other people (not trolls) can learn from this. You do your research, find your component, and then weigh the price they want for the bird in hand you can actually see, touch, and hear with the bird in the bush you can't.  

Sorry if that's too grown up for you. But that's the way we do it.


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