About the usage of the first type condition "If I sell...."

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Is the usage of the first type condition acceptable in the following dialogue?

A: Do you change the prices for different customers for the cars you sell?
B: Well, if I sell this car to a student, I will lower the price to make him more willing to buy it. But for regular customers, no, the prices are always the same.
 

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Is the usage of the first type condition acceptable in the following dialogue?

A: Do you change the prices of the cars you sell for different customers? for the cars you sell?
B: Well, if I sell this car to a student, I will lower the price to make him them more willing to buy it. But for regular customers, no, the prices are always the same.
Yes. The second conditional would work just as well - "If I sold this car to a student, I would lower the price ...".

Note that I changed "him" to "them" - not all students are male.
 

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Is the usage of the first type condition acceptable in the following dialogue?
It's called the first conditional.
Yes, you can use it in that kind of sentence, but see suggestion below.

A: Do you change the prices for different customers for the cars you sell?
That's not natural. Try for example: "Do you charge different customers different prices?"
B: Well, if I sell this car to the customer is a student, I will/may/might lower the price to make him more willing entice them to buy it.
 

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Yes. The second conditional would work just as well - "If I sold this car to a student, I would lower the price ...".

Note that I changed "him" to "them" - not all students are male.
Is this one also acceptable?

If we buy from them, they might offer a very low price to convince us to buy the components.
 

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If we buy from them, they might offer a very low price to convince us to buy the components.
What's the speaker thinking of buying and why do you refer to "components" as something separate?

The components are the parts that something is made up of. When you buy something, you buy its components too.
 
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