16/07/05



土曜日

朝代理店にいって、敷金を払ってきた。

チェンが地元の新聞に、「冷凍庫売ります」の広告を見つけたので、さっそくアポをとって見てくることに。

10年ものの冷凍庫で、40ポンドが売り手の希望価格らしい。

確かに、40ポンドで冷凍庫は買えないけれど、10年ものがその値段は少し高い。

20ポンドぐらいまで値切るつもりで気合を入れて行ったのはいいのだけど、

やはり僕は、交渉能力に欠けるらしい。

5ポンドしか値切れなかった。

仕方ない。

でもこれで、冷蔵庫、冷凍庫、洗濯機ともう三種の神器が揃う勢いになってきた。


Saturday

Went to town in the morning and made an arrangement to pay the rent and deposit for our new house.

Chen found a cheap freezer advertised on a local news paper, so we went to have a look at it.

As we learnt over the phone, it was a ten year old freezer and this guy was charging 40 quid for it.

On our way, we were so confident to renegotiate the price, perhaps down to 20 pounds or even 10!

I was so confident and motivated to confront this guy.

But having confronted this person, he happend to be such a nice person, that it was simply impossible to start from 20 pounds.

Instead I started my negotiation from 30... then I gave in with 35 including the delivery.

How meek I was!

I guess I seriously lack a negotiation skill.

Anyway, now we got the fridge, freezer and washing machine, all second hand with reasonable price.

Good job Chen.


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