“Putney Swope” on How Not to Negotiate Price

by Joey deVilla on January 5, 2008

Poster for the movie “Putney Swope”In Robert Downey Sr.’s movie, Putney Swope, there’s a scene in which the title character meets with photographer Mark Focus (great name!). Things go badly for Mark when they start negotiating price…

As the blog Photo Business News & Forum puts it, it’s “further evidence of the negotiation axiom “whoever speaks first loses” after price is discussed.

[This article was cross-posted to Global Nerdy.]

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1 barry koslow January 7, 2008 at 12:09 pm

The broader axiom is that in a moment of silence, the first one to speak loses.

bnk

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