[reidjs]

I never understood the 'don't give a number first' law from all these blogs. If I know the upper bound of my potential salary, why wouldn't I throw out that number (or a bit above) and try to stick to it? What's the negative here? I think it'd be a lot harder if they lowballed you then you come off as somewhat unreasonable by throwing out a much higher number.

[sopooneo]

You might be mistaken and throw out a number well below the lower bound starting offer the company was planning to make.

[Aeolun]

That still leaves both parties feeling happy, if a bit perplexed though.