Timeline for Potential client wants to pay in free stuff not money, how should I respond?
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| Apr 23, 2016 at 2:32 | comment | added | David Ljung Madison Stellar | @Taemyr, I completely disagree. If you do a plumbing job for a client who sells paint and the price quoted is $100, they do not get to pay you with $100 worth of paint. That's not ambiguous. $100 worth of paint is not $100. If they are positive their ticket has the same value as $X, then they should have no problem selling it to someone for $X. | |
| Apr 21, 2016 at 8:08 | comment | added | RyanfaeScotland | I see where you are coming from David but my mum would still disagree with you. :D | |
| Apr 21, 2016 at 8:02 | comment | added | Taemyr | There is a problem with this approach. Since the prospective client claims that the ticket has a dollar value your proposed answer is ambigous. | |
| Apr 20, 2016 at 22:32 | comment | added | David Ljung Madison Stellar | There's being polite, there's being rude, and then you can simply state facts. For example, your comment above this one is your response to mine and doesn't contain any polite niceties in it. It's neither polite or rude. | |
| Apr 20, 2016 at 22:02 | comment | added | user42272 | @DavidLjungMadison I usually think of polite and rude as opposites, so I'm not actually sure how you are suggesting to behave. | |
| Apr 20, 2016 at 22:01 | history | edited | David Ljung Madison Stellar | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Apr 20, 2016 at 22:00 | comment | added | David Ljung Madison Stellar | Perhaps I should rephrase. You shouldn't be rude, but you don't necessarily need to be polite. This is business, after all. Some people will be polite, and that's also fine. It isn't required. And lack of polite statements is not necessarily rudeness. | |
| Apr 20, 2016 at 15:35 | comment | added | RyanfaeScotland | "You don't need to be polite about not accepting an offer." - You do if you still want to get the work but just not for the current offer. Having just bought a new car I'd hazard a bet that your car dealer would politely decline and then tell you the price rather than just tell you their price. I didn't offer wine but I did offer less than he was asking and the response was along the lines of 'I'm sorry, I'd love to give it to you for that price but XYZ stops me, I can do it for...'. | |
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| Apr 20, 2016 at 7:35 | history | answered | David Ljung Madison Stellar | CC BY-SA 3.0 |