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Secrets of Power Negotiating
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Secrets of Power Negotiating

by Roger Dawson
November 2000
Beginner
320 pages
7h 49m
English
Career Press
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Chapter 21Unethical Gambits: Cherry Picking

Cherry Picking is a gambit a buyer can use against a seller with devastating effect, unless the seller is a Power Negotiator and knows his or her options. Imagine that you’re getting bids from contractors on a remodeling job at your house. It involves adding a second story office over your garage. You ask three contractors to submit bills and ask each of them to break down their bids by component.

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Which bid should you take? Contractor “A” at $36,850, contractor “B” at $36,050, or contractor “C” at $37,650? If the choice is obvious to you, you are probably obsessed with price. If the workmanship, reliability, ...

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ISBN: 9781564144980