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Originally Posted by FGDave

I can answer this. I would tell you, I gave you 100$ off, I can't pay you to do your work now can I? I can take off the 100, all I ask is you tell your friends about us.( Now he tells his friends your a great guy and he tells them the discounted price, which is the normal full price) So it snowballs. Or the more likely scenario: He doesn't tell anyone and you lose 100 dollars

A common sales practice in any sales is to high/low a potential customer.
Depends on how you present your service or product.

Coming down off a price simply shows a willingness to work with people, and appear to "cut a deal". Which is done in all businesses of any kind.
No it shows you're a sleazy businessman and reinforces the customer's idea that you were ripping them off with the initial price. Grocery stores and gas stations don't cut me a deal, neither does my company

Especially now. Times are hard for everyone and a money can be made from lower prices and higher volume, taking less time to do a job.
Or money can be made by working less, and making more

People are more concerned with bottom line than anything. Quality will take a back seat to job cost and speed. Those who adapt will over come, others will fall to the waist side.
Correction: some people are more concerned with bottom line. My customers are concerned with a quality job that will last coming from a company with customer service that backs up our claims to professionalism

Now is not the time to get rich, but to just keep going until the economy picks back up.
Best year ever...can't imagine what happens when the economy "picks up"