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Secrets of Power Negotiating, 15th Anniversary Edition
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Secrets of Power Negotiating, 15th Anniversary Edition

by Roger Dawson
November 2010
Intermediate to advanced
352 pages
8h 51m
English
Career Press
Content preview from Secrets of Power Negotiating, 15th Anniversary Edition
Chapter 16
How to Taper Concessions
In extended negotiations over price, be careful that you don’t set up a pattern in the way that you make concessions. Let’s say that you’re selling a used car and you’ve gone into the negotiation with a price of $15,000, but you would go as low as $14,000. You have a negotiating range of $1,000.
The way in which you give away that $1,000 is very critical. There are several mistakes that you should avoid:
Equal-sized concessions. This means giving away your $1,000 negotiating range in four increments of $250. Imagine what the other person is thinking if you do that. She doesn’t know how far she can push you; all she knows is that every time she pushes, she gets another $250. She’s going to keep on pushing. ...
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