Your agent works for you. Their tactics don't always.
“The buyers say the price is a stretch.” Paste what your agent said and Negotiately names the tactic, reads your leverage, and drafts a reply for you to review.
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How it works
From their opener to your winning counter — in under a minute.
Paste what they said
Drop in the email, message, or opening offer — exactly as received.
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AI flags the tactics: anchoring, fake deadlines, authority plays, false scarcity.
Reply with confidence
Copy your AI-drafted counter. Send it. Know you left nothing on the table.
The tactics agents use on sellers
Your agent's incentive isn't quite your incentive
A good sale is good for both of you — so most of the time your agent really is on your side. The gap opens on the last few percent of price. On a typical commission, the difference between a good result and a great one is a large sum to you and a small one to them, while a fast, certain sale saves them weeks of work. That small misalignment is where the pressure comes from.
Conditioning: feedback that only ever points down
"The buyers love it, but they think the price is a stretch." Once your listing is won — sometimes on an optimistic appraisal — you may get a steady drip of negatives framed in buyers' words, designed to move your expectations toward the market. Genuine feedback comes with names, numbers, and offers. Conditioning is vague, second-hand, and never attached to a written offer.
Close the experience gap in one paste
Negotiately helps you read the campaign. Paste what your agent said — a message, an email, feedback after an open home — and it names the tactic, reads whether the pressure looks genuine, estimates who holds leverage, and drafts a reply for you to review.
Decide your floor before the feedback starts
Set your reserve from recent comparable sales, in writing, before the campaign runs — and ask for every piece of buyer feedback in writing too. When you have your own number and a paper trail, a low pre-auction “early offer” or a week of manufactured negatives stops moving you.
Heard one of these from your agent?
The vendor-side playbook — decoded, with the words to say back.
More pressure lines, decoded: browse the full playbook. Or see why the incentives point this way: whose side is the agent actually on?
Selling with an agent: FAQs
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