Sounds very reasonable and the honorable way to do business.

I can't understand why some people think the object is to get the lowest
price when the object should be to make an honest deal. Deal with your
trading partner honorably, you'll meet them again sooner or later somehow --
wouldn't it be nice to do so with a clear conscience?

--
Jim Carter
"Steve Foley" wrote in message
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Maybe I'm relating it too much to real estate.

Make an offer.
Arrange an inspection
negotiate anything revealed during the inspection
close.

If you tell me you want to do a pre-buy on my airplane, we will already
have
a price negotiated. If, after the pre-buy, you want to lower your offer
based on something you already knew before the pre-buy (when we negotiated
the price) I'm telling you to take a hike.