If Someone Has Ever Tried To Talk You Down In Price.....
Business By indydebi Updated 10 Oct 2009 , 5:05pm by Writecakes
That's too funny. 
I am tempted to send it to a lady who emailed me today wanting a birthday cake, I had already quoted her $125 and she wants it for $75 
The problem is, she is a event planner, you'd think she'd know better.
I LOVE this video!!! Everyone here should watch that! Thanks for sharing.
Honey you haven't been talked down until you are sitting in the oversized kitchen of a 10,000 square foot mansion with a lady so cheap she tells me "but you don't understand, I want a 6 foot wedding cake and I don't want to pay for it!" 
Honey you haven't been talked down until you are sitting in the oversized kitchen of a 10,000 square foot mansion with a lady so cheap she tells me "but you don't understand, I want a 6 foot wedding cake and I don't want to pay for it!"
"No, but YOU'RE the one who doesn't understand ... YOU want a 6 ft wedding cake and *I* dont' want to pay for it!"
That was hilarious Debi! It really puts things in perspective. I think most of us have dealt with idiots like that before....LOL!
Honey you haven't been talked down until you are sitting in the oversized kitchen of a 10,000 square foot mansion with a lady so cheap she tells me "but you don't understand, I want a 6 foot wedding cake and I don't want to pay for it!"
I suppose that's how you get to own a 10 000 square foot mansion; by not paying for as much as possible. 
Thanks Debi, that was really funny. I wish I had your quickness in responses. Usually I think several hours later "oh man, I should have said ______"
i complained to hubby one day that I just couldn't "think fast on my feet" with good comebacks. he said it had nothing to do with being able to think fast .... it had everything to do with life experience, handling that type of thing before, so "....the NEXT time it happens...!" then you know what to say.
So it appears the only thing I've gotten faster at, as I got older, was coming up with smarta$$ answers!
lol, loved it!!! thanks for sharing!!! something happend to me like that Debbie, you know the big 750 cupcake order?? i was charging only 1.75 with a custom 4x6 board, i was basically going to make a cupcake cake with 750 cupcakes in the shape of the world map, they said, oh really that much?? well we only budgeted a quarter of that amount for these can you do it for that?? i said NO!!! sure i was sad for not doing the order, but i do not work for free!!!
THAT is hilarious!!! Hmmm, I wonder how I can work that video into my cosultations...
..... well we only budgeted a quarter of that amount for these can you do it for that?? i said NO!!!
First, GOOD FOR YOU!!!! 
2nd, I ALWAYS want to ask these people, "And just how did you come up with that number?" (if I'm in a pi$$y mood, I want to ask "And what part of your body did you pull that number out of? 
). Geesh, they just pick a number and then expect YOU to adjust for it. aaauuuggghhhh!!!!
I JUST went thru this...a "friend" from a place I use to work asked me to do this very special shower cake for a friend of hers. So I drew up three designs, she picks one and says, how much for that one...so I say, well, normally I would charge 150 but for you I'll do it for 85. She looked at me in shock and said, but I only have 35! I pointed out that 35 wouldn't cover the cost of the materials and she gives this big, no doubt designed to engender guilt in me, sigh saying "oh well, guess I'll have to go to Costco". As calmly as I could I said "If that is your budget then, yes, you will get much more cake for your money..." and let it go at that. SIGH...no, won't work for pennies and won't buy your cake for you...
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Honey you haven't been talked down until you are sitting in the oversized kitchen of a 10,000 square foot mansion with a lady so cheap she tells me "but you don't understand, I want a 6 foot wedding cake and I don't want to pay for it!"
"No, but YOU'RE the one who doesn't understand ... YOU want a 6 ft wedding cake and *I* dont' want to pay for it!"
Boy I'm tellin' ya! 
The funny thing about it is that she was flying in orchids from Bogota to put on the cake! Let me guess, she doesn't want to pay for those either!
I did end up doing the cake for her though and she paid me four figures, not five, but it was a good learning experience. It's the "towering inferno" cake in my pix (complete with orchids from Bogota!)
Funny. I love little snippets like this.
I love at the end how they are asking the Chef to show them how to make the dish so they can make it at home. I've had people ask me this many times. How do you make this and what technique do you use so that way I don't need your services anymore. Seriously, do I look that stupid?
I've got one for ya. Did a pretty big party cake for a gal. She agreed to the price. Acted like it was no big deal. I delivered the cake to her. She is even holding the cash in her hand. The correct amount, and she is trying to change the subject, and discuss "other things" trying to avoid the situation, when she even asked me dumbly, " so how much is the cake again?" I tell her again and she gives me this look like her eyes are going to pop out of her head and then she just hands me the wad of cash like she is disappointed in me or something. It really pissed me off. But I got over it real quick!
I've got one for ya. Did a pretty big party cake for a gal. She agreed to the price. Acted like it was no big deal. I delivered the cake to her. She is even holding the cash in her hand. The correct amount, and she is trying to change the subject, and discuss "other things" trying to avoid the situation, when she even asked me dumbly, " so how much is the cake again?" I tell her again and she gives me this look like her eyes are going to pop out of her head and then she just hands me the wad of cash like she is disappointed in me or something. It really pissed me off. But I got over it real quick!
She was just hoping that you'd come down in price since she was asking in person. Luckily, you stood your ground. 
Ok, I guess I'm gonna make all of you hate me now....... I will first say that I have had people who simply couldn't afford my cakes, but being new, and especially at the very beginning I would adjust my price for certain people so they could get a cake and I could get the practice. Here's the hate me part. I've never, so far, knock on wood, had anyone try to talk me down on price at delivery. (I know, now it will happen). I've never even had to ask for payment, they just have it for me. The last cake I delivered, the woman handed my wife the money. My wife counted it and found it was over. She told the woman she gave her too much and tried giving her back the extra, but the woman moved closer and said she knew that, but wanted me to have it anyway. This was the 2nd time I've had someone give me more than the agreed upon price. Ok, so start throwing your pies at me now (I know you'd never intentionally damage a cake), but can I request the flavor pie you throw. lol
Ok, I guess I'm gonna make all of you hate me now....... I will first say that I have had people who simply couldn't afford my cakes, but being new, and especially at the very beginning I would adjust my price for certain people so they could get a cake and I could get the practice. Here's the hate me part. I've never, so far, knock on wood, had anyone try to talk me down on price at delivery. (I know, now it will happen). I've never even had to ask for payment, they just have it for me. The last cake I delivered, the woman handed my wife the money. My wife counted it and found it was over. She told the woman she gave her too much and tried giving her back the extra, but the woman moved closer and said she knew that, but wanted me to have it anyway. This was the 2nd time I've had someone give me more than the agreed upon price. Ok, so start throwing your pies at me now (I know you'd never intentionally damage a cake), but can I request the flavor pie you throw. lol
Anything but the apple (pie). No fudge pie either...
After a million years/deliveries I finally got a fifty dollar tip--I felt like a million!
I had this one chick who wanted a designer cake for pennies then quiz me about whether I use real vanilla but also which brand because she was told that Watkins or whatever was the best.
I said something as indirect as I could that--you're asking me for an economy cake and you've got the nerve to question the caliber of my real vanilla? <Ucgh!> Not just dumb so dumb.
"indydebi"
So it appears the only thing I've gotten faster at, as I got older, was coming up with smarta$$ answers!
And this is just one of the many, many reasons you are one of my most admired and loved cake mentors 
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