There should be no negotiation. It really shouldn't even come up. If I want to offer a special it's usually for military or people who have done something with their lives. Sorry I wont cheapen myself for you!
Originally Posted by TabithaBash
$200 per hour? I'd happily pay that to you. Fuck yes, for several hours. The passage below is not directed at you in any way, Tabitha.
On the general subject of negotiating, there is so much to it that absolutes are just hard to stick to in an open market. Everything is a negotiation, even in reverse. If I agree to pay someone's rate and a reasonable person would expect a certain attitude and delivery of goods as advertised, and the provider gets in my face and sez "fork it all over old man, I don't negotiate", well she is still negotiating, just totally on her terms. She is trying to get me to pay too much for too little!
Now, if she means she will do a good job for the advertised rate, so let's not talk about it after you have reserved my time, then yes, it is callous to negotiate with that unfair advantage. However, if things get slow, and she likes me, and we have had many good sessions, and she calls me up asking me to come over, she is then negotiating from a weakness she has created. Sensing that, I may simply act slightly uninterested, then she will likely drop her price to salvage something, and I will hop on it.
In reality, the way you act in a previous session determines the next session, and is a full blown audition. If I don't call a provider back, that is my negotiation - I paid your price, you weren't worth it, I'm moving on to a new experience.
All of life is a negotiation, and it depends on supply and demand, circumstances, attractiveness, politics, personality, etc.
If you refuse to negotiate in life, you will end up in a roomful of cats, all alone.
My advise to any provider who doesn't like to negotiate is to learn to do it gracefully, and you can usually get your way.
Motherfuckers are always trying to get my price down on my cakes. I point out I'm always on time, use the best ingredients, deliver it fresh, and give them a sample. They like the sample, they pay the price, or I move on to the next customer. It isn't rude that they try to negotiate, but they may be shitty at it, and lose out on my magnificent cakes!!
They might just be too stupid to know any better.