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An Interesting Story: One Project Manager Requested a Discount on One of My Books Three Times Over the Course of Three Years

A strange desire for discounts.

Zhimin Zhan
4 min readNov 29, 2024

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Black Friday 2024 kicks off today, November 29, 2024. There are quite a lot of online sales.

I received a message on LinkedIn from someone who self-identified as a Project Manager. He asked for a discount on my Practical Performance and Load Testing book.

Before sharing the details of this latest request, let’s have a look at two similar requests this same person made in 2022 and 2023.

As always, I won’t disclose the names when sharing the requests I received.

2022 November 7th:

2023 December 1st:

Today (2024–11–29):

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Zhimin Zhan
Zhimin Zhan

Written by Zhimin Zhan

Test automation & CT coach, author, speaker and award-winning software developer. Help teams succeed with Agile/DevOps by implementing real Continuous Testing.

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