This is a great topic. It just makes it all that easier to keep my head up and firm on my price. I've only been negotiated out of money one time, and it was the stupidest thing I ever did. He needed the job done now, and I was the only one at his house willing to do the job now. That was just after I got my license, so it was my first contract job. I ended up taking WAY longer than what I thought I could do it in, so the burn was worse at the end of the night. Never again.