Drive a hard deal
He offered his wife as part payment, the only trouble was that she was mute.I thought I had heard everything and done just about every deal that I could with my small business, but this guy was way out there. He had just asked me to price up some work for him. The materials came to £13,000 and the labour to about £4,000. He looked pretty well heeled and I thought he could pay, when he started to ask questions like how much for cash and can you come down on that a bit. I gave him what I thought wa...