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<p>[QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 1368125, member: 112"]Owle I completely understood before you ever gave your example. Like I said, I have been through it myself. But that doesn't change anything. You see, I knew what was going to happen before I went through it because it was my responsibility to know. </p><p><br /></p><p>That's where people in situations such as the ones you describe make their mistakes. They forget about their own responsibilities. For as one of two parties in any business deal it is your responsibility to know what is going to happen, meaning the progression of steps in the course of the deal, before you ever enter into the negotiations. Instead, people make assumptions that this will happen just this way or just that way. And because they make assumptions they don't ever ask questions, let alone the right questions. So they end up having expectations of how things will play out. Then when they don't play out that way they cry foul. </p><p><br /></p><p>But there really is no foul. Why ? It's pretty simple really, there is no foul because it is the responsibility of each party to try and do the best they can for themselves in any business deal. And if you're on this side of the fence and other guy is on that side of the fence then whatever happens on the opposite side of that fence somebody is going to say - that's not fair. In other words what you see as fair for you he sees as foul for him, and vice versa. </p><p><br /></p><p>So what you need to do, what your responsibility is, before you ever enter into any business deal, is find out what the steps of progression in that deal are going to be. And if you don't, then shame on you for not knowing that you needed to do that.</p><p><br /></p><p>It's just like everything else in life. If you don't know how to do it before you ever start then you should not be trying to do it. Because if you do, things are probably not going to turn out too well for you.</p><p><br /></p><p>You cannot make assumptions. You cannot have expectations. You need to know what is going to happen before it happens. That is your responsibility.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 1368125, member: 112"]Owle I completely understood before you ever gave your example. Like I said, I have been through it myself. But that doesn't change anything. You see, I knew what was going to happen before I went through it because it was my responsibility to know. That's where people in situations such as the ones you describe make their mistakes. They forget about their own responsibilities. For as one of two parties in any business deal it is your responsibility to know what is going to happen, meaning the progression of steps in the course of the deal, before you ever enter into the negotiations. Instead, people make assumptions that this will happen just this way or just that way. And because they make assumptions they don't ever ask questions, let alone the right questions. So they end up having expectations of how things will play out. Then when they don't play out that way they cry foul. But there really is no foul. Why ? It's pretty simple really, there is no foul because it is the responsibility of each party to try and do the best they can for themselves in any business deal. And if you're on this side of the fence and other guy is on that side of the fence then whatever happens on the opposite side of that fence somebody is going to say - that's not fair. In other words what you see as fair for you he sees as foul for him, and vice versa. So what you need to do, what your responsibility is, before you ever enter into any business deal, is find out what the steps of progression in that deal are going to be. And if you don't, then shame on you for not knowing that you needed to do that. It's just like everything else in life. If you don't know how to do it before you ever start then you should not be trying to do it. Because if you do, things are probably not going to turn out too well for you. You cannot make assumptions. You cannot have expectations. You need to know what is going to happen before it happens. That is your responsibility.[/QUOTE]
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