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Originally Posted by Strange Brew
In your first example, have there been several days if not weeks of back and forth negotiations and the firm you’re dealing with has put everything on hold because you are their most important asset? And you have had years to decide whether you want to work with them and the money it would take? And you know the organization intimately and no further info is required?
There is no good reason why you’d need just a little more time.
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Obviously we don't know the specifics...but if it was weeks of me saying "please give me your best offer and I'll consider it", and the firm waits and waits and waits and won't do it until I give them a minimum target, then ya, I'd still take a bit of time once I finally know what is actually in front of me...especially if there was some reason that I couldn't explore alternatives until a certain deadline and they had walked me right up to it. It's not my fault they adopted a bad strategy.
Which seems to me most likely what happened here (to some degree). The Flames simply misread...time travelling back 1-2 weeks ago it didn't necessarily seem like a terrible strategy (at least whatever we thought we knew), though many of us wondered if they should put forward their best offer with a soft* deadline shortly before the draft (ie. we can't guarantee this offer will stay on the table beyond __ o'clock if other opportunities arise). Hard to say if it would have worked any better, but at least people couldn't bitch about Johnny letting the Flames handcuff themselves (though I'm sure they'd bitch that they should have waited until the last day for their final offer instead).