Comment by mikestorrent

5 hours ago

Is there a guide to negotiating enterprise software purchases somewhere that doesn't suck? I feel like I am always overpaying.

Figure out what you need, get the final quote, and go silent.

Eventually they’ll come back and have some impressive sounding exec reply saying they need 20% less to get it in the budget.

because you always end up paying... from time to time do the exercise of not purchasing but finding out their lower limit