Tips on haggling

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Right, so I've knocked this guy at the shop down from £650 to £630 (for some recording / music eqpt) via email. I'm going over to the shop later to pick up the thing, but I want to haggle down to the lowest price possible. I've bought most stuff online so haggling is a bit of a mystery to me. Any tips?
 
Why haggle over 20 quid? Doesn't seem worth it to me, over a few 100 quid then yeah but 20?

KaHn
 
Just throw out random numbers. Offer more than he wants, then offer him a button, pocket fluff and thirteen jars of pubic hair. Eventually, he'll just think you're mad and you can run away screaming.

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KaHn said:
Why haggle over 20 quid? Doesn't seem worth it to me, over a few 100 quid then yeah but 20?

KaHn
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No, I've already got that discount. I want to pay the lowest price he's prepared to go down to. Nothing wrong with that. Otherwise you're just giving money away.
 
That's pretty bad haggling etiquette really... you've already agreed to a 3% reduction in price via e-mail, he's got the item ready for you to collect and now you're going to arrive and say 'actually I changed my mind, I want it for £XXX' ?
 
As above, you have already done your haggling, if you turn up and the item is damaged/different to described then fair enough - otherwise pay the money you agreed.
 
banja said:
No, I've already got that discount. I want to pay the lowest price he's prepared to go down to. Nothing wrong with that. Otherwise you're just giving money away.
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Well tbh if you don't have the money to spend, then don't go buying new stuff simple really, I don't get all these people who are out for every last thing they can get as if they are owed it.

Bloody hobos.

KaHn
 
Skull said:
That's pretty bad haggling etiquette really... you've already agreed to a 3% reduction in price via e-mail, he's got the item ready for you to collect and now you're going to arrive and say 'actually I changed my mind, I want it for £XXX' ?
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This.

If the OP had said he would discuss the price when he came to pick it up fair enough, but you verbally (or actually technically in writing) struck a deal with him. It doesn't seem very "nice" to then say "ya know what, I think I need 5 or 6 percent off because people on the internets gave me info on how to save more cash".
 
Dom will sort it out for you m8.

Or you can steal his trick - just turn up with a load of BBC cameras and ask for a discount. They'll obviously knock a bit off :rolleyes:
 
You have some cheek haggling over e-mail and then preparing to do it again in the shop. How would you feel if you were the guy trying to earn a living?
 
banja said:
Right, so I've knocked this guy at the shop down from £650 to £630 (for some recording / music eqpt) via email. I'm going over to the shop later to pick up the thing, but I want to haggle down to the lowest price possible. I've bought most stuff online so haggling is a bit of a mystery to me. Any tips?
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dont bother, if you see a price, you either 1) buy it or 2) dont buy it
 
Grief, I'm sorry I asked. Did everyone get out the wrong side of the bed today?

There's nothing wrong or cheeky in haggling - they don't have to sell it to me at a price they don't want to. Retail pricing is not fixed, you have a right to haggle. Plus, it isn't some old codger trying to feed his kids, it's a chain.

Don't worry, I'll just offer him more than they want.
 
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