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Originally Posted by Hitch
(smile) I see that type of thing everywhere. Whether it's cars or makeup or whatever, people constantly put forth all these reasons why they can't spend X, and then ask for "anybody got X at my price?" Maybe it's a form of haggling, rather than denial or wishful thinking?
Although we get it, at the biz, too. I had a guy recently who called me (when we hadn't responded to his email in, like, 15 WHOLE minutes....apparently, all these good folks think I'm sitting around, just waiting for the phone to ring--no doubt in that dark basement in my parent's house, while I munch on hotpockets, or whatever...) and instructed me, before he hung up to "give [him my] best price," because he was price-shopping.
Oh, man, YOU GOT ME! Busted! I was just about to give you my HIGHEST price! /not. I mean, as I told him on the line, "we always do." And I do.
What do people think? I don't get that. I have lost track of the "I'm on Social Security/disability/broke," emails. Oh, I have one, right now--a guy we did a book for in 2011, who just told me that he's been declared bankrupt. Uh....okay, but, what does he think I'm supposed to do with that? I have employees that want to NOT be bankrupt, too.
On one hand, I really do think it's a form of denial. "Oh, I can't afford that Ferrari Daytona, but maybe some little old lady from Miami has a used one for $10,000.00." Or it's wishful thinking "oh, gosh, maybe that perfect car and babe magnet is out there, just waiting for me to find it, abandoned, in an old lady's barn..." Or something. I like a bargain as much as the next guy (and really, who doesn't realize that the "it fell off a truck" marketplace of eBay doesn't thrive on just that very thing?), but I don't assume that I'm going to find some magical deal that will fulfill my wishlist at 10% of the price. That's just...crazy talk. Hell, if someone called me up, offering my dream car (assuming I had one) for $10K, I'd assume I was on Candid Camera or Punked or whatever today's version of that is.
(sigh). You ever notice, we should change the name of this thread? From "V&R" to "People Suck?" lol.
Hitch
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You see it on cooking forums too.
There are several I won't visit because of their $, $$$ attitudes.
On others, you get the I am disabled and either want x cheap or I quit cooking what no cook foods that aren't junk are cheap.
I do hate the I am broke and so I can't afford professional help for my X so I am doing it all myself. Why do they think they can make a career out of something they know nothing about.
That would be like me becoming a professional artist with rose art watercolors or rose art 8 pack crayons on cheap printer paper. I don't need to invest more because I am the greatest artist since James Whistler. With a needle and floss or yarn and a canvas I am pretty handy. (On that I am super expensive because I really don't want to make it a career again.)