A bluffing negotiator offers to leave the table to raise his price.
Evidence
“You don’t want me in this case,” said Facher. “You’ve got Grace, and one deep pocket is enough. I’m only going to hurt you. I’m giving you a chance to get rid of me.” Facher added that he could not match the Unifirst settlement. “I don’t have that much to give you.” — , Harr Jonathan - A Civil Action, 1277
Categorization
- SEED: Angle: ‘I’m only going to hurt you’ — the counterintuitive tactic of the weak party threatening his own presence as leverage.