It's fancy modern haggling... Where one party has almost infinitely more knowledge than the other, both about you and about every other person that might buy th

It's fancy modern haggling... Where one party has almost infinitely more knowledge than the other, both about you and about every other person that might buy the good/service. That imbalance is what people hate. It's part of why people hate car salesmen. And a large part of why people hate most salesmen.