[kaisen]

Do you enjoy negotiating on cars? When you buy? When you sell?

Or rather, do you negotiate at all?

Twenty or fifty years ago, sellers started artifically high, buyers started unrealisitically low, and after a period of negotiation, they agreed somewhere in the middle. You never really knew whether you got a great deal, but since both parties gave a little, it seemed relatively fair. If it didn't, the parties walked away from the table and hoped they'd find a better deal elsewhere.

Does it still work that way today?

I say no, it doesn't. As a seller, I do not negotiate. I do my research, price things fairly, and that's that.

What do you think?