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Old 07-12-2010, 19:06
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...I think one can become too obsessed with the truffle; there were failures on other items, notably the tartan. As a matter of fact, I think the big failure on the truffle was where they went for it rather than failure to negotiate on it. Laura was in fact right; a posh restuarant was not the right place to buy. Stella however became too bewitched by the supposed rarity of the item.
No, the truffle failure was entirely due to targetting Knightsbridge, trying to get hold of Gordon Ramsey and eventually settling on a high-end restaurant.You're right, everyone makes errors, but this was quite frankly a howler! Hardly 'obsessive' to point this out to those who won't acknowledge it and try to lay the blame elsewhere....
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Old 07-12-2010, 19:28
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No, the truffle failure was entirely due to targetting Knightsbridge, trying to get hold of Gordon Ramsey and eventually settling on a high-end restaurant.You're right, everyone makes errors, but this was quite frankly a howler! Hardly 'obsessive' to point this out to those who won't acknowledge it and try to lay the blame elsewhere....
Isn't that what I said, pretty much?
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Old 08-12-2010, 19:17
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Isn't that what I said, pretty much?
I thought so.

And I think something similar could be said about the tartan. Even if you don't know the price, I don't think they should have accepted a mere £1 discount. They should have walked away and tried somewhere else. The good thing about a discount as poor as that, you don't really risk losing it by walking away.
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Old 08-12-2010, 19:19
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I thought so.

And I think something similar could be said about the tartan. Even if you don't know the price, I don't think they should have accepted a mere £1 discount. They should have walked away and tried somewhere else. The good thing about a discount as poor as that, you don't really risk losing it by walking away.
That's a very good point.

Amazingly I don't think anyone's brought it up yet.
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Old 08-12-2010, 19:25
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I thought so.

And I think something similar could be said about the tartan. Even if you don't know the price, I don't think they should have accepted a mere £1 discount. They should have walked away and tried somewhere else. The good thing about a discount as poor as that, you don't really risk losing it by walking away.
One would imagine that before negotiating a price that they would also have compared prices with another supplier first to get an indication of what the RRP was? If for instance they had been to the supplier that the boys went too, they would have got the tartan for a much keener price even without haggling. I can't believe that they wouldn't have approached at least two suppliers?
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Old 09-12-2010, 00:25
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I thought so.

And I think something similar could be said about the tartan. Even if you don't know the price, I don't think they should have accepted a mere £1 discount. They should have walked away and tried somewhere else. The good thing about a discount as poor as that, you don't really risk losing it by walking away.
Definitely. It wasn't so much lack of persistence; it was clear no significant discount was going to be forthcoming. It was their poor judgement in not trying elsewhere. But then I think that was all part of the tendency of the girls to see the task as primarily a treasure hunt, which it wasn't.
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