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Bidding on your vendors

posted 4 years ago in Money
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    lenko86       Brooklyn

    Is anyone bidding on their wedding vendors through a web site (vendors set a starting bid then brides bid against each other on the vendor of their choice-kind of like an auction) ? Anyone heard of this concept or know of anyone who has done this?

     
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    MissBlueBear    March 2008   New York

    Hmmm, I've never heard of this before, but I must say that I strongly suggest against it....you def want a chance to meet all your vendors and make sure they are what you want for your wedding.  There's no do-over for a wedding.  Besides, who's to say that the "other" bidding brides are really brides and not staged to make the rates go higher?  Sorry, that's just the skeptical me talking.

     
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    Angel    July 15, 2005   Snohomish County, Washington State

    I think it's a valid point, MissBlueBear and agree that you should meet all your vendors. I guess if it were goods and not services, then a bidding war could be okay (ie cake knife vs. engagement session).

     
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    Never heard of it. And I'd probably be a little turned off by a vendor who did such a thing - seems arrogant to me.

     
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    fadedblue    august 8, 2009   san diego, ca

    I've never heard of securing wedding vendors this way and like others, would advise against it..sounds like a sketchy way for vendors to make more money off of you, IMO. Bidding is something more appropriate in say, a design setting where the designer is bidding on a job that they want to do. Hope you steer clear! 

     

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