Will Manning
6/9/2016 01:16:00 pm
Being an owner, one thing that worked for me was negotiating trying to find good deals. This helped me buy bushels for cheaper price. The other thing that helped me was leaving some farms and coming back to the same ones hoping that they wanted to get rid of it and I could get it very cheap.
Aiden Kelleher
6/9/2016 03:04:35 pm
As an owner the best thing that worked for me was waiting until the last couple of minutes/seconds, this caused people to panic and sell there bushels very cheap
Mr. Hartford
6/9/2016 06:10:12 pm
well played. They never stood a chance
Gabe Goldman
6/9/2016 04:08:51 pm
As a buyer, my strategy was to pit the farms against themselves. I did this by openly telling the farm owners about my buying tactics, and often by telling them that I intended to buy bushels from other farms. This made the farm owners more willing to negotiate to lower prices. In addition, I often waited until the last minute to purchase bushels, so that the farm owners were desperate to do any kind of business.
Annalise Torres
6/9/2016 05:11:08 pm
When bad seasons hit, it was useful to create deals that fooled customers into thinking they were getting a good price (saying the original price was 20, but aiming to go to 17 anyhow). Also, it was difficult to get new customers. Buyers tended to drift toward the same groups each round and be wary of other prices. Shoutout to Will for buying all of our corn!
Mr. Hartford
6/9/2016 06:11:27 pm
Shoutouts like yours are corny.
Leah Dang
6/9/2016 05:32:09 pm
It was really hard to compete with other farmers since we have to have a reasonable price but also make some profit to pay the $8. It was probably a good idea to have a sale to try and sell our bushels even though we had rats. We had to have some reasonable and fair buyers unlike some people who offer a cheap bargain.
Alexa Flewelling
6/9/2016 05:58:17 pm
As a seller I realized that making deals for the buyer made them more attracted to our farm. For example selling bushels for $2 or selling 2 bushels for $3 allowed us to sell more bushels while being able to pay our $8.
Valentina Angel
6/9/2016 05:59:48 pm
Being a farmer was challenging because you had to try to sell all your bushels in time. Along with trying to compete with other farmers and make good deals with the buyers. And if you lost money it was difficult trying to pay your $8 rent.
Marlana Winschel
6/9/2016 06:11:39 pm
As a buyer I found the best strategy to get farmers to lower their prices was to tell them what other farms were offering and then they would 9/10 times lower their prices. Also two farms next two each other would often try negotiating with me at the same time. When one lowered their price, the other would too. This saved me a couple of dollars each time.
Sophia Winschel
6/9/2016 06:14:45 pm
Many of the buyers would go around the room first and then look for the best deals, so our strategy was to get them to come to us first and offer them a higher price than we wanted. For example, we might ask for $14 for 4 bushels and act very reluctant to go down, so they felt like they were getting a good deal. We also offered deals on our bushels where if you bought them in bulk you'd get a good deal, but we'd also make profit. However, some buyers wouldn't accept our offers and instead wanted very low prices which we would end up taking in the last few seconds if we needed the money for rent.
Katie Cohen
6/9/2016 06:47:01 pm
As a farmer, getting the buyers to buy the bushels I was selling became difficult as the rounds went on. Something that worked well was having one buyer go directly to you so that they couldn't see the competitors prices. Keeping up with the $8 rent also became more difficult.
Sindi Birko
6/9/2016 07:12:42 pm
As a seller, it was challenging to get buyers to come to our farm. This is because other farms around us sold the same bushels for equal or lesser value. After round 1 of noticing this, my partner and I decided to make deals such as $3 for 2 bushels. At one point we were in desperate need to make money and sell bushels which we ended up selling for $1 each(not the brightest idea).
Giovanna Limoli
6/9/2016 07:37:16 pm
As a seller , I tried my hardest to get buyers go come to my stand first thing. Waiting for people to come to me didn't work. I would give a high price than I wanted and negotiated down to my desired offer. Also, I would make sure my deals were better than other salesmen, but still at a reasonable price( not too low)
Ev Bun
6/10/2016 02:44:42 am
As a buyer I would ask for people's prices and I thought they were to high for my liking I would leave and go to the next person until someone would have gave me the cheapest prices. Sometimes it worked and sometimes it didn't but in the end all I wanted to do was to see the sellers beg for me to buy their bushels knowing I had a lot of money.
Sophia Brunet
6/10/2016 03:08:55 am
As a owner, I realized that as the game kept porgressing, it was harder to sell bushels at the prices Annalise and I wanted. The beginning of the game was easy because we had a good season, so we could sell bushels at lower prices, and the buyers were new to the game so they usually just bought something. As the game went on and we got less bushels, we had to raise our prices and it was harder to sell them to the buyers. One helpful thing that Annalise and I did was we put away our $8 mortgage and rent aside before new rounds started. That way, we weren't counting that money for the money we already had, and it helped us figure out our prices for each rou
Caleb Dollin
6/10/2016 04:41:02 am
That it is very easy for a farmer to go in debt
derek jalbert
6/10/2016 04:43:44 am
as a seller it felt imposible to make a profit and an idea i had was to negotiate my prices i saw someone sell gum -.-
Dolly Patel
6/10/2016 05:32:11 am
What worked was that it was easy to pay the $8 rent each month but the drought seasons were not helping at all. Compromising with the buyers were somewhat challenging but easy.
Gisady Mendoza
6/10/2016 05:42:56 am
As an owner the drought weren't easy and we would have to raise the prices up. Then none of the buyers wanted to buy expensive wheat or corn. It was easy to pay rent the first few rounds but as the droughts came in , it became more difficult. I soon became in debt after the 4th rent. Comments are closed.
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