Counter Vendor Opposition to Pull Off Price Reductions

Author(s): Bethany Butzer

Info-Tech recently interviewed 24 IT professionals about the strategies that they use to oppose common vendor arguments against reducing pricing during contract negotiations. This research note includes:

  • Five reasons that are commonly given by IT vendors to avoid reducing their prices during contract negotiations.
  • Strategies that IT professionals can use to respond to each of these vendor positions in order to successfully achieve a price reduction.

Achieve price reductions for the organization by learning how to deflect the claims that vendors commonly use to avoid reducing their prices.


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