Comments on: Dave Ramsey Financial Peace University Review: Week 8 http://www.pfadvice.com/2010/04/08/dave-ramsey-financial-peace-university-review-week-eight/ Bridging the gap between saving money and investing Tue, 21 May 2013 11:58:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Aryn http://www.pfadvice.com/2010/04/08/dave-ramsey-financial-peace-university-review-week-eight/comment-page-1/#comment-682715 Aryn Thu, 08 Apr 2010 16:39:58 +0000 http://www.pfadvice.com/?p=5905#comment-682715 You can use the same tactic with home repair people who come in trying to make it seem like they’re too important to take the job. I just quietly looked at the carpenter and let him talk himself into our small job. It was amusing to watch him go from “Oh, this is a hard job. This could take hours. Is it worth $1000 to you?” to “Wait, no, this is easy. I can do this no problem. It won’t be more than $600.”

]]> By: Annie Jones http://www.pfadvice.com/2010/04/08/dave-ramsey-financial-peace-university-review-week-eight/comment-page-1/#comment-682659 Annie Jones Thu, 08 Apr 2010 12:10:49 +0000 http://www.pfadvice.com/?p=5905#comment-682659 Sounds like a fun discussion in class. In some cases, you can successfully negotiate on small ticket items. For example, my husband uses cheap cell phones. He’s in construction and dirt and grit will get into his phones and ruin them quickly, even if he keeps them in a case. A retailer had inexpensive phones on sale for $12 one weekend, but only in black, and where out of those. Red ones in the same style were marked at $30, but he was able to negotiate with the sales rep and the manager and get red one for $12 also.

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