lowballing
Insultingly low offer
Lowballing is the practice of offering or quoting a price far below what something is worth or what one actually intends to pay.
The term comes from sales and negotiation tactics where an artificially low initial offer hooks someone's interest before the real costs emerge.
They lowballed us on the estimate, then doubled it once work started.
Someone who lowballs may be genuinely cheap, strategically manipulative, or simply testing the waters.
Dispute price persistently
- counterofferAlternative terms proposed back
- anchorSecures ships to seabed
- bidOffer to purchase
- offerProposal to provide
bargaining · deal-making · tactics · strategy · leverage · concession · compromise · terms
Estimate below true worth
- downplayDiminish perceived importance
- understateExpress with restraint
- diminishTo make smaller
- minimizeReduce to smallest extent
underrate · underappreciate · misjudge · miscalculate · sandbagging · deflate · underassess · short-change
haggle
Dispute price persistently
- counterofferAlternative terms proposed back
- anchorSecures ships to seabed
- bidOffer to purchase
offer · bargaining · deal-making · tactics · strategy · leverage · concession · compromise · terms · pitch
undervalue
Estimate below true worth
- downplayDiminish perceived importance
- understateExpress with restraint
- diminishTo make smaller
minimize · underrate · underappreciate · misjudge · miscalculate · sandbagging · deflate · underassess · short-change
underbid
Offer lower price
- underpriceCharge below value
- undercutSell cheaper than rivals
- discountReduced price offered
markdown · cut-rate · rock-bottom · slashed · devalue · cheapen · budget · wholesale · clearance · reduced
- negotiationbargaining, bargain, negotiate, mediation, compromise
- downplayingminimizing, downplay, trivializing, belittling, soft-pedal
- marketing scamsfalse ads, fake reviews, fake testimonials, fake endorsements, false promises
- power tacticspower play, power grab, strong-arm, strong-arming, strongarm
- undercuttingunderbidding, price wars, predatory pricing, dumping, loss leader
- persuasionpersuade, persuasion, persuasive, convince, convincing
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Going dangerously fast
overpricing · overbidding · overquoting · gouging · price gouging
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Going dangerously fast
overestimating · inflating · overquoting · overshooting · sandbagging
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