Another reason is that if people put some work into negotiating a good price, they might be more willing to buy at the negotiated price, because they played a character who tried to get an acceptable price and agreed to it. IRL, if you didn’t need a particular version of a thing too much, but bargained and agreed to a price, you’ll rarely walk out. Dark arts-y.
Pliny: they didn’t honor our negotiations im gonna sue.
That didn’t happen, the screenshot is photoshopped (via Inspect element), which the author admitted, I added a community note. The actual discount was 6%. They almost certainly have a max_discount variable.
Another reason is that if people put some work into negotiating a good price, they might be more willing to buy at the negotiated price, because they played a character who tried to get an acceptable price and agreed to it. IRL, if you didn’t need a particular version of a thing too much, but bargained and agreed to a price, you’ll rarely walk out. Dark arts-y.
That didn’t happen, the screenshot is photoshopped (via Inspect element), which the author admitted, I added a community note. The actual discount was 6%. They almost certainly have a max_discount variable.