I knew a lad who went to buy a field from an elderly farmer. The old man quoted 1.2 million euros and my acquaintance, thinking what harm could there be in chancing his arm said he'd give him 1 million.
The old man said the price was now 1.4 million. And he got it.
Sometimes people just like to do things their own way. I don't think you have to Neuro divergent to care more about your principles than money.
Anyone raising price after getting a perceived lowball offer sends a clear signal that they don't know what they're doing. Real estate is often listed much higher than the sale price since it's (usually) much more difficult to go higher than it is to go lower. The seller has to set a price up front which is a disadvantage when negotiating. So sellers often set the price higher than what they would accept hoping that they can find a high price but having some wiggle room to negotiate down without being disappointed.
If you are given an offer that is below what you would accept, a polite no will suffice.
Depends on how you view transactions. I like term "non negotiable" for exactly this clarification.
It can be simple: thing that person is selling they personally value at X. If person buying wants to pay X, they get it.
If I can afford not to do some weird social negotiation dance - I won't. I do realise though that sometimes I really want the transaction to go ahead so I have to do the dance.
So while I am not about to endorse screaming "Did I fucking stutter!?" I can absolutely understand a person saying they want more now because you are making this process harder than it needs to be.
How would you feel if it was during a job offer negotiation? If a company offered you 100k, you counter-proposed 120k, and then they came back saying it's gonna be 75k now, take it or leave it?
In general, I cannot condone punishing people for negotiating. It's not about business, it's making sure people feel small; making them feel your power and feel their powerlessness towards you. It's making people feel bad for the sake of making them feel bad.
I've actually seen it more the other way - like they ask you what you want, and if you say, then they will be like okay how about 90% of that?
I had one job offer where I absolutely nailed the interview and basically walked out with a verbal offer, and then the founder decided to offer me $10k less than what I asked for. I didn't respond for a week, and then he offered me what I asked for. But because of that, I didn't even respond to the second email, I don't want to work for someone who will screw things up over small points like that. Again, like you say it was just about them trying to screw me over because they felt like they could.
In the case of employer and employee, the employer is in the position of power. Even in tech where employees are in demand and have much more power that in other sectors, employers are still more powerful.
In the other cases discussed, the seller is in the position of power. And they rub their power in the face of the less powerful party because that party was operating on the assumption of equality of power and dared to negotiate.
I’d to the same to anyone trying to short change me.
I guess it really depends on what your local market looks like. In some places the price you list land or real estate for is highest you could possible hope of getting and you go in with realization that you will almost certainly get less. There it is common to start the 'bidding' ~20% under asking.
In other places the price you list is the lowest price you will consider selling for and you'll never seriously consider an offer under that. There you normally start bidding at 0-10% over asking.
I did that exact same thing, highly effective. It essentially tells your opponent during the negotiations that you have the advantage and that now you are both aware of it.
The old man said the price was now 1.4 million. And he got it.
Sometimes people just like to do things their own way. I don't think you have to Neuro divergent to care more about your principles than money.