Soooo the 5999 credit Housekeeper dress. I know you can talk her down to 750, but whenever I see a diverging path like this with clearly defined gradations of required work to progress in a game, it makes me wonder if there's a benefit to not taking the path of least resistance. Usually paths of greater resistance aren't available unless there's something to be gained by traversing them.
I noticed that if you try to buy the dress design at 5999 credits though, this game actually lets you. I'm curious; is there any advantage, immediate or delayed, to doing so? In the immediate aftermath it seems like the only difference is Emee comments that she didn't think I was that rich, and she should have charged me more. If that's the only difference between the paths, I'm thinking I'd probably want to just rewind a couple steps and do the 'haggling' dialogue.