Unknown One
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I am a small business owner and while I do not believe in stereotyping, it is common knowledge that people of this culture are very hard negotiators and it seems to be cultural. I do not knock anyone because of their need to get a low price but it gets to be too much when they continue to push and push and push. Matter of fact, it has gotten so irritating that I shy away from contact with them over the phone even though I potentially lose any chance of landing business in that market.
Too much time is spent as they ask questions and pick through the services being offered looking for a reason to discount and then after taking up a lot of your time they say, "I have to talk to my wife or husband and I will call back". You pretty much know then that they are just looking for a lower price and some other poor smuck is now stuck on the phone with them. I cannot afford to waste time on efforts that are guaranteed to exhaust a lot of time with no pay-off, so I sometimes give them a high rate and refuse to negotiate so they will quickly hang up and let me go back to work.
I do not like that thought of me being racist but in this case it is not their culture that creates the problem, it is the actions that I imagine are based on conditioning within their culture. I just think it is irriating to spend a lot of time and energy negotiating over $25 when we are dealing with hundreds of thousands.
7 hours ago
Too much time is spent as they ask questions and pick through the services being offered looking for a reason to discount and then after taking up a lot of your time they say, "I have to talk to my wife or husband and I will call back". You pretty much know then that they are just looking for a lower price and some other poor smuck is now stuck on the phone with them. I cannot afford to waste time on efforts that are guaranteed to exhaust a lot of time with no pay-off, so I sometimes give them a high rate and refuse to negotiate so they will quickly hang up and let me go back to work.
I do not like that thought of me being racist but in this case it is not their culture that creates the problem, it is the actions that I imagine are based on conditioning within their culture. I just think it is irriating to spend a lot of time and energy negotiating over $25 when we are dealing with hundreds of thousands.
7 hours ago