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Old 05-29-2012, 01:24 PM   #2251
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Originally Posted by Tron_fdc View Post
Weird. I've worked with purchasers at some pretty big international companies, and they work on this premise: bid your lowest cost, and you're not privy to anyone else's bid.

This isn't global business though. Real estate is a game of musical "stab the knife in someone else's back" so if I was selling and it happened, I'd sit all the buyers in a room and auction the house off.
Yeah, when I'm purchasing things at work that's how we do bids.

But a condo purchase isn't the same thing as a big contract between 2 large companies, and if I was the seller I'd absolutely try to auction it off for the last few thousand dollars.
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