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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How come your DW wasn’t  upset?[/quote]

OP she was falling for it. Guy gave discounts off sky high prices and did pretend to call manager to get more, turns out he can on a Saturday so I would be home now all at once it was two against one. Fighting off salesman while trying to stop wife who wanted to buy cause the price only good today,[/quote]

Sounds like you felt emasculated.[/quote]

Sounds like the wife is a sucker.[/quote]

My wife likes what she likes. She overbid on current house we own even though both me and even buyers broker told her bidding too high. Finally, we got her to do part in an escalation clause that never hit. My first house once again she overbid a bit, then I had to be bad guy at end and get her down in price, then nickle and dime buyer into repairs to get it back to a fair price.

If she does not want it even if free she wont take it. However, she does not often really like things. I have to rein her in as when she wants it money is no object. I on other hand will still "soft negotiate" on stuff I really want.  My wife is not alone and plenty of men are like this, I say even more men if outdoor related. Pool salesmen, backyard Kitchens, Garage Makeovers, anything without a price you can look up and they come and pitch both sexes will fall in love and want to sign if played right. Ask my male cousin with $25,000 worth of a stone deck in yard and get this he wants an in-ground pool as salesmen said what is all that stone deck good for if no pool. His wife wants to kill him. She is like stop  calling for estimates from salespeople we both work full time so stop projects. All together couple is $350,000 into home in last ten years all on loans.

[b]And in college very briefly I did door to door sales for two weeks. Did whole training video, went out with guys and did pitches and I felt dirty afterwards. Here was mark up. Product made by Factory and factory sold for profit. Franchise/Office that sold product got a cut, manager of sales office g[/b]ot a cut, salesperson got a cut. No problem factory getting cut, but once you added all commissions it was selling for four times cost to make. You could buy same thing in a store on sale for 1/4 the cost. They also prey on elderly. I quit as soon as the guy was forcing me to hard sell a 80 year old we just knocked on door,  he was pissed at me as she already owned the model we were selling and actually only need a part. I sold her part and he was super mad at me. He even kept the commission. It is a sleezy business going door to door. When I did it I had to knock on 100 doors a day and do sales calls at night when Husband was home. It was horrible. I was only 21. And everyone in office was dregs of society. The weekly meeting consisted of bragging who cheated who the most and prizes were given out for biggest mark up. I never got paid a cent from that place, no loss as just graduated college and did it while looking for my full time job. So you can imagine when I blew my top it really was a breaking point. I knew the gimmicks coming. It was he just would not stop. Honestly, between my wife and myself we said no at least 13 times before I blew. Even  my dickhead manager at that sales job I had when 21 would have left after 5 or 6 nos.         [/quote]

You went to college?  [/quote]

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