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Originally Posted by Jay Random
When someone says, ‘My price is X,’ and you offer him X, and he then wastes your time and costs you other alternatives before saying ‘No deal,’ it is not butthurt to be steamed about it.
But hey, if you want to make Edwards the bad guy, and if the only way to do that is to describe his actions with derogatory adjectives, I guess you'll do what you gotta do.
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If we make up the words that were used, then ya, it sounds bad.
Imagine you've interviewed for a job and they offer you $76k and 2 weeks vacation. You ask the hiring manager: can you get to $80k and 3 weeks? If the answer is yes, no hiring manager assumes the deal is done and starts informing the other candidates. No, they understand that you may need a little bit more time to consider the actual final offer. If the answer was no, $78k is the best we can do, then they expect you'll still consider it and decide accordingly.
Of course, if you say: if you can get to $80k and 3 weeks then I'm in! then it's totally different. But with a life altering decision like this, you don't just assume the "then I'm in!" part unless it was actually said, which I very much doubt.