Art of the Deal - Approach, Negotiation, etc

Pedilego · 2015-10-19T20:54:16.000Z

I haven't seen a thread on this and I think it could really help us all: Share your Lego negotation tactics. What's your approach? Once you've engaged in a conversation, what do you do/say in order to land a better price? I'm ok in my approach. Once I found a listing, noticed the phone number in the description below was inaccurate, and was hours late in texting the correct number. But I like to think my approach helped me land the deal: I introduced myself before inquiring about the collection I came off as educated, or at least not un-educated, by using proper capitalization, punctuation etc I 'nicely' told her the number was incorrect even though it theoretically meant more competition I leveraged attempting to have contacted her way earlier to have her agree to let me see it first Of course most of the time those factors might not matter at all but Craigslist (scary scary) and it turned out that she was having the buyer come into her apartment with just her and her kids. I also think maybe she (a guy probably wouldn't have cared) felt like she owed me the first look because I probably contacted her first and even corrected her on the number whereas others were reporting her listing, presumably so people wouldn't see it. I lucked out but as they say, luck is the combination of preparation and opportunity. Those things don't normally matter but I was careful about them on the chance they did, and it worked out in ways that I didn't even expect it to. My wife came with me that time and that also helped put the mother at ease. I was going to make two offers; one for the entire collection and one for the modulars (since I didn't really care for the rest) and she accepted the first one before I even said the second. It was the end of the month and, after the fact, we realized/speculated she probably needed the money to make rent. What do you do to increase your chances at a transaction or tip it in your favor?