Posted by JRSutton on June 01, 2015 at 09:53:35 from (96.237.169.35):
In Reply to: what would you do? posted by K Effective on May 31, 2015 at 19:31:57:
I agree with others - you just bought yourself a little education.
But don't feel bad - I did it at 7.80 a bale!
A friend bought some hay delivered with a tractor trailer - he took all his, but that left 50 bales in the trailer, of which was what the woman called the "cheaper first cutting".
I told her I'd take it all assuming the price "wasn't too crazy".
(to which the woman never replied... She just made some jokes - I SHOULD have known right there...)
My offer was more to help her out than anything else, I could unload it into his barn, and let her go home with an empty trailer. I'd use the hay, but I didn't really NEED it.
We got it all stacked when I finally heard the price: "ok, that's 7.80 a bale, times 50 ... I almost choked.
I'd normally pay 150 for that, was EXPECTING to get robbed for about 250 - but paid almost 400 instead.
I knew instantly that I screwed up.
I also knew instantly that I'd never make that mistake again. No matter how nice and friendly a person is - business is business - get the price up front.
Not a whole heck of a lot of leverage for negotiation once you're holding the hay.
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