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How One Sales Rep Lost a Deal Over a Discount No One Asked For
Episode 4 of Closing the Deal examines a surprisingly common mistake: offering a discount before the customer asks for one. Lucas breaks down a real case where a SaaS sales rep at a mid-market analytics company dropped the price by 20% early in negotiations—only to have the buyer interpret the move as a signal that the product was overpriced. The deal died two weeks later. Lucas and Luna unpack the psychology behind premature discounting, the concept of 'concession without leverage,' and a simple preemptive framework Lucas calls the 'why-now price check.' They discuss when…
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