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Is “I won’t buy this car if you don’t give me a discount” a threat too?

It is not a threat to pass along an intention of performing a non-harmful action.

Let me add some more double negatives in there.... It's not not a threat to not keep quiet about intention to not not cause pain to another person.

Sure. The threat here is the loss of the sale.

I don’t really care though. Call it whatever you want.

The benefit of giving a discount is actually _getting a sale_

The way I read your response is "you must buy my X, otherwise you're negatively impacting me already" and it's something turned on its head.