Agulto chooses different bargaining style, first he used the hard-bargaining style, to intimidate the seller and to set a standard. Using hard bargaining style gives the advantage to the buyer, winning it at all cost. Then he talks to the seller like giving a commitment that if they sell us at a particular price we will order from them another sets of sack of rice. And we bombarded them with flinches or offers that will reach their concession. And before we switch to principled bargaining style we ask them a take-it or leave-it so that they may realize that we are already giving a great offer and if they won't take our offer they can't have another offer like that.
Then he used principled bargaining style in the latter part when they are hesitating to take our offer. So, we focused on our interest, to have a win-win situation. So, we give each other a options on how we can both obtain our objectives. We ended up having a deal that can benefit the both parties which is we will order 1,000 sacks of rice (700/sack) for this month and another 1,000 sacks (650/sack) for next month, but we will pay them at once and they will just deliver the 1,000 sacks next …show more content…
He said that he learned the hard-bargaining style in online games that he played back in elementary and high school. In online games bargaining is important because if you won't bargain you will be exploited by your fellow gamers. Everyone in the game is aiming for profit and for markup and every offer you will make should be always on your advantage. He can say that playing online game is not bad for a student, but it makes you readier for the future as you can apply what you have learned in there in your daily life.
Also, he added that he learned the principled bargaining style in their family business in a fish port where principled bargaining is used to setup a price for every kind of fish products that is