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Originally Posted by troutman
Technically, the seller paid all the commissions.
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There's a concept called a reserve pricing model, where you consider your vendors input costs as bearing directly in the prices you pay as the person contributing actual funds to the transaction.
Ignore the marketing ploys they come up with, the buyer is the one bringing the money to the party, they are the paying the rent seekers. The seller is liquidating an asset for cash and passing on all of the transaction expenses to the buyer, the first time the money hits the sellers bank account it is already the amount they are netting.
Also if you are going to make an aggressive offer what 5%? over list price on something, it doesn't seem unreasonable at all to me to pair it with some pressure tactics (like a 4 hour time limit). you've already tipped your hand that you are going hard, doesn't leave you a lot of leverage other than threatening not to negotiate.