Mar 22, 2017 20:33
7 yrs ago
English term

internet price

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The whole premise of negotiation skills is having your own sense of value. And negotiation primarily is about your own sense of self-worth. And that what the outside world is trying to destroy. They're trying to get you to do everything you're good at at the internet price down the road. And that to me is what's unacceptable. They either get all of you at the right price, or a very diminished version of you at a different price. So get that right.

What's an internet price? I'm translating this into Arabic later on. I can put it as it is, but maybe it needs more clarification. Is it a low price?

Thanks!

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Thomas T. Frost Mar 22, 2017:
Internet price It would be the (presumably low) price you pay for something online, as opposed to buying from a physical shop or service provider in person. "Down the road" can't be meant literally here.

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prix (sur) internet

Yes, he means buying it more cheaply off a website — but without the advantage of easy after-sales service etc.

'Down the road' is a bit of a British expression, perhaps, and it is really just a sort of euphemism for 'buying it from someone else' — the classic expression used, for example, when a shopkeepr quotes a price the customer thinks is too high, so he then whistles through his teeth and says "Golly, mate, I could get it for half that price down the road!" — some vague place just meaning 'from somewhere else'
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