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At some point, your demo asked me to think of your children, which seems to fall into a cultural stereotype. On the internet, no one knows your a dog. Or care
by drivingmenuts 13y ago
At some point, your demo asked me to think of your children, which seems to fall into a cultural stereotype.
On the internet, no one knows your a dog.
Or cares, really.
The larger point is: you invited me to think of your children, without giving a compelling reason why I should even care.
This is the internet - it's depersonalizing, anonymizing, delocalizing, and dehumanizing. Pretty much the antithesis of everything related to traditional haggling.
So, tell me again: who are these children, what do they look like, how old are they? If they're old enough to work, why aren't they, etc. If they're not cute, by my cultural standards which you have only a small chance of guessing, then what's up with that?
It's much easier to either drive a customer away or raise non-germane questions during a depersonalized haggling event. It's also way to easy to have those questions begin driving the conversation in the customer's mind.
Note: I'm from a culture where haggling over price is not the norm and I'm not a fan of it. YMMV where you are.