Auctioning and posting prices

[Tallenn]

Negotiating 201: Plenty of people don't want to negotiate at all.

Look, if you force me into making the first price, I'm going to give you what I'm looking to spend, period. If you come back with a higher amount, I'm going to say no, because I didn't want to haggle in the first place, so I didn't lowball my offer, and I'm simply not willing to go any higher. What I told you is what I'm willing to spend, not a starting off price. In other words, I'm not negotiating, I'm simply telling you what I will pay.

In the end though, I don't want to explain this to every "negotiator", so chances are, I'm not even going to ask you what you want for it- which brings us back to the beginning: plenty of people just don't want to negotiate- AT ALL.