Josh Parker joshparkerj

Can Understanding Sales Tactics Make Me Become Immune to Them?

Let's make this concrete by considering what I believe to be the most common sales tactic, and certainly the one which I personally am most interested in beating:

Sales Tactic #1: Refuse to Disclose the Price.

The purpose of this sales tactic is to thwart comparison shoppers, and thus avoid the inconvenience of competitive market pricing. A salesman may attempt to disguise this tactic from unsavvy individuals by:

giving a fake price
claiming repeatedly that "I'll have that price right out to you; just ten more minutes..."
claiming that they cannot access the price Of course, if I am a savvy person I will see right through these blatant attempts at deception (and others like them), but I still won't have the price. So, how can I beat the tactic? Well, this first tactic has one huge glaring weakness: the salesman has to disclose the price before closing a sale. Unfortunately, I now run up against the second sales tactic:

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flowchart TD
A[choose shape];
B{Is the shape valid?};
C[call the function for that shape];
D[Display shape not valid];
A ----> B;
B --Yes--> C;
B --No--> D;
D ----&gt; A;

Okay, here's what I've got for a very basic diagram, just showing what calls which (when rendered visually, it's quite the rat's nest hahahahaha):

text effect dependency graph

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 A --> L[Element Effect Handler]
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 H --> K

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	"start": "2024-03-03T07:00:00.000Z",
	"name": "A Sproson (@asproson)",
	"level": 105,
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