Lowball in a sentence as a verb

Even if you tell them everything they want to know, they either won't make an offer or will lowball you.

It makes sense to ask the government to cover your costs when you're doing something on a court order, and by god you aren't going to lowball it.

I got an offer at a company that lowballed me, I negotiated a 25% increase, and went to work there, and it was still a mistake.

So assuming a lowball figure of 10 pageviews per each of your comments, this hellban has claimed at least 2 hours of your life just sitting there waiting for HN to load.

Hedge funds also don't try to lowball you with insulting junior positions because you're not from California or you don't know the five 3-year-old technologies in their stack in detail.

But Silicon Valley engineers with startup experience who just lost their job and are likely to accept lowball offers so they can continue to pay their hyper-inflated apartment leases, those people are highly sought after.

You could argue that they are by lowballing everyone, but some fraction of the people end up taking the job so it must not be a totally bad deal for those who take the job and fail to push the lowball offer higherMy question is, what do you feel is to be done about situations like this?

If you're on the brink of homelessness, there's something amiss that's deeper than will be fixed by a "startup accelerator" gig, "crowdfunding campaign", or desperation lowball contract to build an "app MVP".Your resume is scattered in tone and content, and inconsistently formatted: it's a bad audition for a detail-oriented solo-web-dev project.

Lowball definitions

verb

make a deliberately low estimate; "The construction company wanted the contract badly and lowballed"

See also: underestimate