Sentences with phrase «of lowball»

In this market, don't expect a rush of lowball offers.

Make lots of lowball offers — many will get rejected, some will get countered, if they are immediately accepted, your offer was probably too high.

Sometimes, through a combination of lowball estimates and trial teams who underestimate the scope of work, a hard estimate proves quite inaccurate, to the detriment of the relationship between the law firm, the client and the trial consulting firm.

I kept a supply of liquidity on hand for situations like this, so with the S&P falling, and the VIX over 50, I put out a series of lowball bids for BBB assets that our analysts liked.

While it was dealing with the regulator, Plus500 was also the subject of a lowball takeover bid from Israeli gambling software company Playtech.

They've been «anchored» to a certain price point, and if they're focused on costs rather than the value of outcomes, you're never going to escape the weight of their lowball expectations.

Not exact matches

The likes of Southeastern Asset Management are right that Michael Dell and Silver Lake Partners have made a lowball offer.

To make sure you never overpay for a stock, Keith always recommends the tactics to squeeze every drop of profit out of an investment, like lowball orders and dollar - cost averaging.

The resulting Boulevardier shows seamless toasty, earthy, and nutty notes from time in barrel, served in a lowball glass over one block of ice and garnished with a ribbon of orange peel.

I'd be disappointed if the club try to lowball him (relatively speaking of course)

Barclays released a statement saying someone at the Bank of England had called them in 2008 to say that someone at the Treasury (stay with me) wanted Barclays to «lowball» their Libor rating.

Mix equal parts of gin, sweet vermouth and Campari in a lowball glass, spritz it up with a tonic top and garnish with a big, juicy wedge of orange.

I personally love the «Rambler lowball «and I think it would go great with a 6 pack of some of his favorite craft beer.

It's far easier to pretend you're drinking with a lowball glass full of soda water with a lime rather than making your Whole30 experiment something you have to defend for the night.

Since ESSA requires the use of proficiency rates, one design objective is a combination of measures on academic achievement to reduce both the short - term gaming around «bubble kids» (both real and perceived) and also the long - term incentive to lowball cut - scores for various achievement bands on statewide tests.

I am not in a rush to sell and will not accept a lowball offer so please don't waste either of our time.

And although its low base price of $ 27,100 is a bit of a tease, the real - world price still lowballs BMW, Mercedes, Audi and Jaguar by $ 3,000 - $ 8,000.

Once the market order fills, you'll enter a lowball limit order with the other half of the money at 20 % less than the market price, which would be $ 78.43 per share.

Remember, if you're thinking of making a lowball offer, the chances of its being accepted will depend on the current climate of the market.

There were frustrated reports about the Mexican government vastly underestimating the volume of oil gushing from the seabed, much like the lowball guesses from BP in April.

In the case of buying a short sale home, don't lowball the bank.

At the time, the equity owner of the building called me, and made me a lowball estimate to pay off the loan, a few months before it would spring to first lien status.

As she explains, «when it comes to pre-construction condos, you don't know what your expenses will be... the builder gives you a lowball estimate of your maintenance fees.»

By providing you with a lowball number, your lender is using the effects of anchoring — a cognitive bias that causes you to be heavily influenced by the first piece of information offered, even if it's clearly unrelated.

I really don't like the amount of the new offer or the message that it sends; I think the family continues to lowball investors.

Now, granted, LH can probably price those C cabins to sell if they want to more than they can price F to sell (since a lowball F price really damages their C pricing), but I think it's pretty clear than LH has a very high premium cabin to coach ratio that invites the sort of spoilage during «soft» travel periods that leads to reasonable award inventory.

I sure hope they are right, just as I hope that the Curry - Lewis lowball ECS estimate — as reiterated in a recent paper getting a lot of play by the «lukewarmer» crowd — is correct.

RIE, the elephant is the fact that at high CO2 levels that are easy for us to attain with burning the rest of the fossil fuels, even using the lowball estimate given, large glaciers are untenable.

Estimates of fossil fuel reserves are notoriously lowball, dating back to the 18th century when they doubted oil would ever be discovered outside of PA..

This is a lowball estimate, but even at this level you're going to see increased coastal erosion, and much more damaging storm surges — even at the present frequency and severity of tropical cyclones.

An example: The makers of the Hubble Space Telescope optics thought they had every process modeled, so much so that they were able to lowball the competition by nixing the final end - to - end testing.

I read Nic's defense here, but I did not see that he refuted the argument I made on his estimate of CS on Stoat: http://scienceblogs.com/stoat/2012/12/20/people-if-you-want-to-argue-with-stoats-first-read-enough-to-be-a-weasel-parrots-neednt-apply/#comment-24749 — It seems to me that Lewis» calculations are reasonable, but they lowball temperature change, ignore ocean heat absorption below 2000 m, and high - ball radiative forcing.

It would cause any number of countries to lowball their target out of fear of getting stuck.»

I say the AR5 is a «partial» review that is «hopefully» the last because, like every IPCC report, it is an instantly out - of - date snapshot that lowballs future warming because it continues to ignore large parts of the recent literature and omit what it can't model.

They will do anything to take advantage of this stressful situation and get you to agree to a lowball offer.

When it comes to paying out on the policy; however, they will do whatever they can to minimize the payment of the claim or «lowball» you.

They will make lowball settlement offers that do not properly compensate you for all of your harms and losses.

But we won't recommend accepting a lowball offer that falls short of your needs.

Similarly, an insurance company is much more likely to make a lowball offer in an auto accident case if your lawyer does not have a successful track record of trying cases in court.

Ignore the temptation to accept early settlement offers (the lowball settlements won't be enough to cover the full extent of your injuries and harms).

Safeco Insurance will prey on the fact that you don't know how the claims process works, and try to lowball you or convince you that a certain amount of money, all factors considered, is all they're able to offer.

But compensate a lawyer for the number of hours he invoices to clients, and that lawyer will lowball everything else — efficiency, timeliness, value, communication, even ethics — in order to maximize the amount of time he can take to address a client's request.

After several lowball offers, Joe just kept pushing the case to trial and we eventually settled out of Court.

They'll offer you a lowball settlement, hoping that you'll accept it and save them a substantial amount of money.

Some people call negotiating an art — there is definitely some dancing involved but there are also games of chicken, bluffing, leveraging, lowballs and highballs, ultimatums, final offers, intimidation, and power plays.

By adopting this shotgun strategy from the very beginning, you'll ensure that you're getting the best possible rates for you and yours, and you'll be able to weed out shady providers that lure in customers with lowball estimates at the cost of quality coverage, as well as those who try to take advantage of the uneducated consumer with exorbitant rates.

In my recent Forbes post, I shared tips on how to avoid a lowball salary, and one of these is to stay away from companies whose salary expectations are unrealistically low.

I don't want to price myself out of an interview and I don't want to lowball myself either.

When you are gainfully employed, you are far more marketable, exude an air of confidence, and possess stronger negotiating power than when you are unemployed, anxious and willing to settle for a lowball offer because of financial insecurity.

To buyers, these will look like expensive repairs, which means they'll have to lowball you, or not make an offer at all, because your house «needs a lot of work.