A kitchen topic: After just two consultations, I’m already completely fed up with those annoying kitchen salespeople.
I feel totally ripped off. You look at a kitchen, ask for the price—which of course isn’t displayed—and then you faint... €20,000 (about $21,600).
After the initial shock, the salesperson offers the first discounts... after two hours, you’re down to €12,000 (about $13,000) but still feel like you’re being taken for a ride.
If you then want to compare kitchens from the same brand, you can’t, because nobody gives you the itemized lists.
Everyone knows that dealers do this on purpose to be able to offer those huge discounts. I’m done with it.
How do you negotiate your kitchen, or how do you compare prices?
I feel totally ripped off. You look at a kitchen, ask for the price—which of course isn’t displayed—and then you faint... €20,000 (about $21,600).
After the initial shock, the salesperson offers the first discounts... after two hours, you’re down to €12,000 (about $13,000) but still feel like you’re being taken for a ride.
If you then want to compare kitchens from the same brand, you can’t, because nobody gives you the itemized lists.
Everyone knows that dealers do this on purpose to be able to offer those huge discounts. I’m done with it.
How do you negotiate your kitchen, or how do you compare prices?
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mellid11089 Mar 2014 09:58Emer, will you come with me to buy my kitchen?
We planned exactly as we had envisioned. We didn’t make any compromises and waited for the final price. At the beginning, we didn’t set a budget and only agreed to plan a typical good-quality German average kitchen. As angoletti1 already mentioned, starting the planning process early helps maintain your negotiation position. I also agreed with my wife not to get too enthusiastic about anything (this worked so well that the salesperson even asked us for a bit more enthusiasm at one point). During the negotiation, she was advised not to "interfere." Towards the end, my negotiation counterpart increasingly looked to my wife for support, as if to say: She likes the kitchen and we can make zero compromises, so just say yes already. Our consultant was also quite surprised.
Whether this was part of their negotiation tactic is hard to say—if it was, it was very well executed.
We are satisfied with the outcome, and I’m sure the furniture store is as well.
Whether this was part of their negotiation tactic is hard to say—if it was, it was very well executed.
We are satisfied with the outcome, and I’m sure the furniture store is as well.
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mellid11089 Mar 2014 12:14Sounds good. I bought the book "Clever Kitchen Purchasing" and am trying to take some advice from it to help me.
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