I have limited experience with recruiters, but generally they often are nice, polite, want to help, then ask me the same question three times over a 30 minute p

I have limited experience with recruiters, but generally they often are nice, polite, want to help, then ask me the same question three times over a 30 minute period: "So, I know you asked for X as base compensation preference, but what would it take for you to do 0.8X of that number?"