Week 11 Blog

(1)  For the Live8 negotation, I played the role as the owner.  My partner and I negotiated over text message.  She initailly made the first offer, and noted that she would be fine with paying more.  Her first offer was $500,000.  I asked if she could go to 600,000, and after some back and forth, we both agreed.  I thought the negotation was unqiue and allowed each party to think more before their next move.  


(2) I feel as though with us not being in person, I missed a lot of valuable information.  Such as reading my partner's facial expressions and being able to judge what they were going to say without actually saying it.  Additionally, doing it in person allows for a "mistake" or lapse in judgment, where as they isn't a huge possibility over text.


(3) Going off of that, doing it on text message was extremely simple; however, I feel as though it takes away a lot of the factors of the negotiation.  You are unable to read facial expressions, you can take longer to think about information and ultimately have a longer time to develop a response.  Per the diagram on D2L, it is a lot harder to get deep into a negotiation over text or email.  I felt it was very surface level at times, though of course we wanted the best agreement for our respective sides, it was difficult to get further past the numbers and find a reason for why something worked.  It seemed it was just really back and forth over one thing, and maybe that was how the negotiation was supposed to be or maybe it was due to being over text. 

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