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name: supplier-price-increase-reply
description: "Push back on a supplier's price rise without souring a relationship you still need. Use when the user wants help with Supplier Price Increase Reply. Related topics: Small Business, Email, Negotiation."
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# Supplier Price Increase Reply

Push back on a supplier's price rise without souring a relationship you still need.

## How to use this skill

1. Ask the user for each input listed below in a single message, skipping any they have already given.
2. Where options are listed, offer them, but accept other answers too.
3. Fill the answers into the prompt template, then follow the completed prompt to produce the result.

## Inputs

- **paste their email or letter** (longer free text)
- **We have bought from them for** (free text, e.g. "how long")
- **amount per month or year** (free text, e.g. "amount per month or year")
- **Input 4** (choose one: want to stay with them if the number comes down, have a cheaper quote from someone else, am just annoyed and want to say so politely)

## Prompt template

My supplier just sent me this:

{{paste their email or letter}}

We have bought from them for {{We have bought from them for}} and spend roughly {{amount per month or year}}. I {{Input 4}}.

Draft a reply. Acknowledge that their costs have gone up too, then ask for one concrete thing: a smaller increase, a delay of a few months, or a volume deal. Keep it short and friendly enough that I can still ring them next week if a delivery goes missing.

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Source: [Supplier Price Increase Reply on PromptBuild](https://promptbuild.io/prompt/dqL3qUIrDVKE9bHMbVmq/supplier-price-increase-reply)