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drop your pants verb. To lower the price of a product to close a sale.

Example Citation:
"The Burn Artist is expecting to close a sale of an e-shop merchant system. It will be an enterprise-wide sale, thousands of seats. He is going to drop his pants from $15 million to $10 million to make the close."
—Po Bronson, "Someone's Got to Move Units!," Wired

Related Words:
channel stuffing
personalized pricing
salescritter
scarcity close
top-to-top

Subject Categories:
Business - Buzzwords
Business - General
Language - Idioms

Posted on October 30, 1998 at 7:45 AM


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