The only things I negotiate on are salary, car price, and home loans. For the latter two, I obtain a dozen or so quotes by email, then go round-robin with every

The only things I negotiate on are salary, car price, and home loans. For the latter two, I obtain a dozen or so quotes by email, then go round-robin with every other option asking if they can beat the best quote so far. Repeat until no one goes any lower. I would have negotiated my job offer in a similar way but got a good offer sooner than I expected and didn’t have any other offers in the pipeline. The recruiter was refreshingly honest about it too, “I’m not going to lie and tell you we can’t go higher, but you would need a counteroffer”. For anything other than massively expensive purchases or job offers, negotiating doesn’t really seem worth the time and tends to give off vibes as a difficult customer or a cheapskate (at least in the U.S.)