Bargaining, haggling and negotiating are acceptable at major computer and electronics stores, reports The New York Times on Sunday, March 23, 2008 in an article entitled:

Even at Megastores, Hagglers Find No Price Is Set in Stone

The article shows several savvy consumers who asked for better prices on TVs and computers — and got them!

Two factors can help:

1. Have printed price reports from the Internet. Sales people at some stores are authorized to match or beat prices.

2. Walk out. Salespeople would rather make a bad deal than no deal at all.

I pointed these tips out in my e-book, “Negotiating with Bastard Car Dealers” along with 20 other tips that any consumer can use to get a good deal on any product or service.

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- Use the salesperson’s ego against him

- Uncover the psychological triggers that motivate salespeople

- Counteract devious sales “closing techniques”

- Master the one tactic you must use to improve your negotiating ability

- Not to be conned into giving more money after you’ve bought the car and made the deal

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Networks could be the biggest loser in the writer’s strike.

They might find that people are bored with endless reruns. Instead, people might go to alternative entertainment sources — and find they like those sources better!

For example:

1. You Tube

2. Surfing the Net

3. Watch movies via NetFlix and other low-priced rental services

4. Participate in community events and politics

5. Participate in local sports

6. Go to sporting events, concerts and other live entertainment events

7. Family time

After experiencing alternative entertainment, people might find they’ve weaned themselves from TV. Don’t laugh. Daily newspapers are losing readers to online news sources. It could happen to networks as well.

Most people look for a win-win settlement. Some people want a win-lose settlement. The writer’s strike threatens to be the first strike in which not only the principles lose, but so do lots of of other groups.

For example:

1. Writers lose money in lost wages. It could take years for them to recover the money they haven’t been paid over the last few months.

2. Actors lose money because episodes are not shot.

3. Businesses that support actors lose money as they services are not needed. Think of caterers, make up artists, etc.

4. Networks lose revenue as fewer people tune in to watch reruns. They can’t charge advertisers the original rates.

The ripple effects of the strike point to the “Law of Unintended Consequences.” More about that tomorrow.

Chances are you aren’t negotiating a life-and-death decision like Dominick J. Misino, a negotiator with the New York City Police Department, but there are many things you can learn from him that can save your financial life!

This book has a number of good tips and interesting anecdotes.

The one point I’ll highlight here is to realize that it is better to negotiate as a team, comprised of the commander who makes the decisions, the negotiator who handles the negotiations and a scribe who take notes.

The beauty of this plan is that the negotiator is apt to get personally involved or emotionally involved in the process and might lose sight of the goals. That’s the commander’s job: To make sure the objective is reached.

The scribe is essential (and probably overlooked by small businesses and entrepreneurs used to doing deals on a handshake) because he records what was discussed and agreed to. That record will be essential when you write the final contract to ensure that all the terms you wanted are listed properly.

Getting to Yes is one of the most influential negotiation books of all time. I read it, underlined it, highlighted it and dog-eared it like mad. There’s a lot of great material here for beginning negotiators. It is essential reading for people who negotiate.

One of the key points of this book is to remove the emotion from negotiation. Instead, use facts and figures from impartial outside sources to set realistic numbers. In other words, you might say your property is worth X and your opponent might say it is worth Y. In that case, you should get outside experts to evaluate the property to get a fair assessment. In fact, you might want 3 opinions and settle on the average so it is even more realistic, or fair to all concerned.

This is a wonderful way to let bastards know that their opinion doesn’t makes something right or valued at a certain level.

Try this in your negotiations and see if it helps!

Let me know if you think this is helpful!