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Except he just emailed me while I was at the gym, asking me how close I can get to the other comparable bid. Because there is no comparable bid, and this is all a game to him. He wasn't offended, this just saved me a few hours of bla bla bla. I'll review with the guys in the AM, but I'm...

Yup. Some people want to negotiate everything, I could have bid this at $1, and he'd have bitched about that.

My wife's looking at this thread and laughing. As she said it, this customer is "beyond blunt." In her words, you haven't met this guy. Anyway, in business, you have to communicate with your audience in mind. I remember one time, I was on the phone with him, getting griped out, and we...

You guys are looking at this like it's a rational customer. For the 4,000 customers I have, they get a more diplomatic answer. This guy is not built like that, a weak answer is seen as a sign of weakness. He's actually a nice guy, and I like him, but when it comes time to talk, he starts...

A perfect example is from this past Friday. One of the crews came in, and me gave a contract they didn't complete. The customer was a referral from this organization. The customer added a bunch of work not on the contract, and said we had to do it because he was referred by that organization...

A final thought, he would have countered with his massive amount of referrals he claimed to be sending me. Only they haven't been massive. The last few years, if I counter back with service levels or industry standard, the answer back would have been "I send you a thousand referrals, so eat...

The previous seller was more terse. Literally, he would tell them he didn't appreciate them wasting his time, tell them to have a nice day, and walk away. What do you know? He got a higher rate than I am.

I'm being less aggressive than he is. In the past, the only thing he's understood has been bluntness. Other than that, he'll sit you in a room and yell for an hour to get you to lower the price. He only takes notice to aggression, if you are a pussy, he won't even know you are talking. If...

I'm pretty pissed right now. He's demanded a higher service level than everyone else, and demands to jump ahead of everyone else on schedule, but at a lower rate. I've done my best to diversify against the bigger clients over the last eight years. If you only have one, or a few customers...

The reason why I'm being nice is that the influential people around here all talk. One time, we had a construction company (our biggest client at the time) that we fell out with. I was pissed, they made me buy a bunch of additional insurance policies, and didn't pay me for them. There was...

He sent me an email this morning, telling me he found a comparable company for 35% less than the industry standard. I fired him diplomatically (I think): "Mr. X: 35% lower than the industry standard is insane, and referral-wise, we've only had one customer a week calling to say your...

Star Lord is a woman now, too? DAFUQ?

They are saying Lamar Odom was loading up on herbal erection supplements before he OD'd.

There are so many Marvel stories they can't do without the FF and their villains.

Daaaaaaaaaaaammmmmmmnnnnnnn!!!!!!!!!

I don't play games like that. I've made a conscious decision to be honest always in my dealings. There was a study done for Black Friday, for 30,000 SKU's. You know those Black Friday sales where they give 45% off? Not real. We know the anecdotal evidence, but empirically, the overwhelming...

I just paid someone $400 to install surround sound in my bedroom, embedded in the walls. That wireless tech just doesn't sound right. It sounds like mud.

Let the chips fall where they may. Sometimes, these big companies talk a lot of shit, and when you call them on it, they fold. We became an approved vendor for a major auto parts company (think O'Reilly's), and they did everything they could to get us to lower our rate. They even told us we...

As I said, he has a lot of clout in the community. We do work for all of the municipalities in the area, and they all talk. I need to let him think he's fired me. At the end of the day, it's insulting that he's constantly trying to get me to lower the price. I keep a steady backlog of work...

When I bought the company, he'd stopped using us for six months, to go to a cheaper company. He didn't get the same level of service, so he switched back. He's done his best to replace us over the last ten years, but hasn't been able to.

He's at it again. I don't know how to say it in a nice way, but I want out. This is my eighth year owning the company, and for all of those eight years, he calls me up and acts crazy after he gets a price. I've somehow let him get me down 10% below industry standard. We price jobs 10% lower...

Ugh, they are making Blade a teenage female. Sweet 16. I officially can't even torrent this crap.

Why the VR? Doesn't the Oculus have higher definition? Reviews I'm reading of the VR is that the graphics are really dumbed down. Also, did either make you queasy?

350 isn't a big cost, it's the 600 on Ebay that is. I go to the developer's site, and they won't accept payment on one, so apparently you can't but them any more. If it's not going to be compatible with the CV1 games, I'll just wait.

Won't the DK2 be compatible with the CV1?

I'm a little skeptical it's coming out in Q1 of next year.

More fresh meat, Cena approves.

James Storm to NXT. HHH is making the right moves.

I thought he was pretty dang cheesy so far. He walks into the police station, and tells the high ups he's going to kill them, and then walks out and no one touches him, let alone arrests him for making terroristic threats? Derpy. The problem is that the other villains were so good at it. I...

I just had a professional company come in and look at my sound in my mancave. He talked for 20 minutes, and I didn't understand a word he said, but he tweaked some things, and it sounds a lot better already. He said something about Best Buy hooking in the sub wrong, and then the sub was firing...

The other thing being said is that you can't have lag. It needs to be under 20 ms latency, and this includes the goggles moving in almost 1:1 correctness. Also, I believe they are saying over 75 fps minimizes it also.

No one knows, not even Nasa can figure it out (Even NASA Doesn??Tt Know Exactly What Causes Motion Sickness (But There Is a Way to Avoid It) | Smart News | Smithsonian). I believe the prevailing theory is that when playing an immersive game, your body thinks you are hallucinating, due to...

I hope so. The problem is, like with the 3D glasses, they'll probably take them away because of theft.

Marvel hasn't had a new idea since 2000, that I can remember. They just recycle the old ones.

He's a minor villain from Teen Titans. They went from the Titans' best villain, to the worst. At the rate they keep upping the ante with villains, I'm surprised they didn't do the Joker.

It should be illegal to advertise your soundbar is 7.1, when it is clearly 2.1. I'm buying a low end definitive system with a Yamaha receiver for the bedroom today. I was surprised at how good it sounded, for the price. It sounds better than the first HTIB I bought, and is cheaper.

Let the hate begin. INC all those posters that said they would never watch this show again in 1, 2, 3...

Edge used to have muscle definition, but all of his injuries over the years have made it so he can't train like that any more.

Nice use of the Bat-Signal last night.

Why did they go with such a no-name Big Bad, after they did Merlin, Deathstroke and Ras'?