Approach after being ghosted

[TheDude]

It's called negotiating.
Businesses do it all the time. They go in with an offer, you go back with a counter offer - if you're interested. If they are interested, then they look at the figures and make a new offer.

Opening at (say) £150k and then immediately dropping to £135k is not great negotiation though because they have already shown their hand.

[eek]

It's called negotiating.
Businesses do it all the time. They go in with an offer, you go back with a counter offer - if you're interested. If they are interested, then they look at the figures and make a new offer.

The risk in negotiating is that the other party just moves on to another offer - which is the risk if what you offer doesn't match previous options.

[northernladuk]

Opening at (say) £150k and then immediately dropping to £135k is not great negotiation though because they have already shown their hand.

Only if that £150 is a real number. If it's artificially high just to drag you in and was never on the table then no they haven't. Common sales trick you see everywhere but usually the other way around in retail.