I suppose it's my own fault for answering the phone, but since I'd forgotten to turn it off it was either answer it or run the risk of the big kids shouting down the house and running to bring it to me or, LORD!, even answering it.
So I'm in the middle of reading the little one a bed time story and the phone goes, I have to race to grab it, hand off the story to husband, good thing he was right there!, and close my bedroom door to answer it. Punter on the other end mumbles something about seeing my ad, visit, rate. Those are seriously the only words I could make out. Not exactly difficult to suss out what he wants so I explain I offer outcalls only and what my rate is. He then asks me if that includes "everything"! ARGH. I answer yes, it does. He decides to hem and haw about it before telling me he'd need to "think" about it. I tell him to think about it and call me tomorrow to make a booking.
He calls me up at half past 8, insults me with the "does that include everything" bit, THEN hems and haws like he's hoping I'll knock my rate back just for him or something. I really hate these discount seekers, I even had a client the other day who I've seen before who wanted to make a 2nd booking drop out when I nicely reminded him that my rate had gone up. I'm not exactly charging over the odds for the service I offer and even though the money, even heavily discounted, would be nice, I'm not willing to drop my rate. It's what my time and my "service" is worth. Seriously, do these guys think they're haggling with the olive guy on market day or something?
Eh. I know this is nothing new, just a bit annoyed with the discount seeking time wasters...
