What are your negotiation tactics ?

I think that you will find that many people use pretty much ALL of the examples you have provided throughout a negotiation process but they are just not consciously aware of it. Of course different situations call for different approaches and a savvy negotiator needs to be able to wear many hats so to speak. I am making reference more to negotiation in a business world here but a similar pattern applies to everyday life as well. Flattery is most definitely a commonly used style and we all seem to think that using flattery will win most people over. Personally I feel that anyone even slightly street-wise will see right through it though! lol. As far as I am concerned, the key to successful negotiation in ANY situation, either life or business based, is to ensure a win/win; and the only way to find this happy medium is to test the water with ALL approaches until you find what sticks. And they do have to follow an order too; the challenge is in determining what that order is. It is very unusual for something not to progress if both parties concerned are getting something of benefit. The key is like the lyrics from that Kenny Rogers song "The Gambler" ' You gotta know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em!

Well negotiating takes courage...You should show the other person what you can do and how well you do it. You should have confidence. I do that take it or leave it tactic as well. It works most of the time.

i while purchasing usually try to build a rapport with the shopkeeper and try bargaining....sometimes i use cut throat competition for my benefit like comparing prices .....but most of the time building good rapport works because in today's world hardly people get time and even care talking to others nicely, politely and add rarely add humour....i talk blending all the above and it works!!!

I have both my own strategy and my own tactics when negotiating. all the best urban

Hello, Alokn99! Hahaha, it's fun to negotiate for what we want. I mean, of course we all can do it. All you have to do is convince the seller that he WANTS to sell the product to you for a low price. It's not through forcing him that you will make him sell you. Sometimes, the "take it or leave it" will just make him say: "Well, then I leave it". Nah, that is not the best way in the art of negotiation. You must find a way to put in his mind that you have what he wants, and that what he have is nothing compared to what you will give him. Then, my friend, the product is yours for a cheap price. Just don't bargain too much or you will lose it, though. Respectfully, Munhozmib.

I negotiate by being friendly to the sales person. I asked the price and choose the clothes that i want. I usually buy stuff not inside the mall since you cant negotiate there anymore since the price are already fixed. I buy most of my clothes when i was still in the phils on small stores where i can actually asked for discount. Everytime i buy clothes at those stores i always get a big discount of all the item that i bought.

Personally I prefer the negotiating style used in The 5th element. "We're sending in a negotiator." BLAM --- BLAM "Anyone else wanna negotiate?"

Alok, I am very poor in bargaining tactics of say nogotiation..LOL!. I go for marketing with my better half, she is an expert in bargaining and she will apply every trick up in her sleeve to get the best price. If she feels that the shopkeeper is not agreeing to her, she will just leave all the stuff.......and will show to him........as he is not the only one........from where she can buy it...........she will say 'Let's go to other shop'. Sometimes it backfires also, when the shopkeeper does not budge from his stand and sometimes this tricks works.

I am flattery and encouraging at times. But usually, I always go straight to the point and talk about the facts rather than talking about anything else. I am usually straightforward. I don't like wasting time since time is very precious for me after all.

i often find more three same shops and compared the prices.i will tell them your neighbor's price is just 50,if he want 70.throughtout the three vendors.so ,i get the lowest price among them.

Flattery that is one kind that really never fails, my hubby on the other hand uses reasoning out when he needs to negotiate, he uses logic most of the time. and he debates and he is very objective, he uses figures and facts, I on the other hand uses my emotion most of the time, and sometime it works or my hubby's style works, but we do both learn from our style of negotiation and actually it depends most of the time on the person you are negotiating with.

I don't know,I just want to study English here. It is difficult to escape the influence of tlelevision.If you fit the statictical averages, by the age of 20 you will have been exposed to at least 20,000 hours of television. YOu can add 10,000 hours for each decade you have lived after the age of 20.

I think it depends on each character by his way of being, for some simply a pleasure to negotiate, my mother, for example, is a pleasure to go to market, and enjoyed so much when it comes home, and says the economy has done!, but I'm not like I go, I see what I need, what I like, and buy, why so much haggling, simply do not like to hire me!