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A preregistered study (n = 1,809) shows that, compared with round asking prices, precise prices lead to higher counteroffers in a buyer\u2019s market but to lower counteroffers in a seller\u2019s market. The effect is driven by buyers\u2019 use of a finer-grained pricing scale when countering precise asking prices. An analysis of transactions (n = 8,278) from Amsterdam\u2019s 2017 real estate market, in which 70% of the properties were sold above the asking price, corroborates the experimental findings. 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