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Whats the biggest reduction you have got on a product by haggling?

  • 03-12-2011 5:03pm
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,553 ✭✭✭✭


    I got €69 off a TV today


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,758 ✭✭✭✭TeddyTedson


    Some of the Lucky Luckys on holiday tried to sell me a genuine Rolex for 60euro. I got it for 8:D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,070 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


    Don't think I've ever got a reduction in the price of something through haggling, but if I'm ever spending over €100 on electronics etc I do my best to have something thrown in for free.. even just a mouse mat, ink cartridge or pack of batteries.

    Life's little victories :pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,647 ✭✭✭✭El Weirdo


    Some of the Lucky Luckys on holiday tried to sell me a genuine Rolex for 60euro. I got it for 8:D
    But it was worth about 50c.

    There's a lucky lucky guy commenting on a thread somewhere about how much you've fleeced off of mugs.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,019 ✭✭✭KilOit


    €14600 to €13300 for a car,
    if you bought a house i'm sure that will be the most haggled off


  • Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 10,446 Mod ✭✭✭✭xzanti


    In before 'Yore Ma'


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,439 ✭✭✭Kevin Duffy


    £210 watch (not some dodgy ROLLECKS that will leave you with an allergic reaction) down to £80 was probably the biggest %age haggle, a few grand off a car was the most in money terms.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,758 ✭✭✭✭TeddyTedson


    El Weirdo wrote: »
    But it was worth about 50c.

    There's a lucky lucky guy commenting on a thread somewhere about how much you've fleeced off of mugs.
    Ah yea I know, I'm only taking the piss. They're the only people I haggle with though. I don't think I could do it in this country. I do some work for people and I even feel bad when they ask me how much they owe me. I just say it's fine and then they give me far too much money anyway....WTF is wrong with me:D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,987 ✭✭✭Kerrigooney


    Ah yea I know, I'm only taking the piss. They're the only people I haggle with though. I don't think I could do it in this country. I do some work for people and I even feel bad when they ask me how much they owe me. I just say it's fine and then they give me far too much money anyway....WTF is wrong with me:D

    Yep....I know that feeling only too well. Is it an Irish thing?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,758 ✭✭✭✭TeddyTedson


    Yep....I know that feeling only too well. Is it an Irish thing?
    I think so. Not exclusively Irish but I think it's a common trait.
    Walking on the path when a car is about to pull in to their drive way I jog a bit. I run to the door when someone holds it for me. You hear lots of people saying they do these things and feel stupid for it. It's actually kind of endearing though I think.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 318 ✭✭Kaneda_


    A stripper,serious.

    Ok so its a service not a product.I was in Belgium and she wanted 500 euro for an hour ( upper class hooker/stripper ).

    I told her i had 80 euro in cash and she took it and i had my hour.The following day i went to her work place and offerered her 50 euro for half hour ( day time rates ) which she accepted.

    Some of the other hookers stole my money the last night there and i rang the cops but they said they couldnt do anything about it.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11,582 ✭✭✭✭TheZohanS


    Kaneda_ wrote: »
    A stripper,serious.

    Ok so its a service not a product.I was in Belgium and she wanted 500 euro for an hour ( upper class hooker/stripper ).

    I told her i had 80 euro in cash and she took it and i had my hour.The following day i went to her work place and offerered her 50 euro for half hour ( day time rates ) which she accepted.

    Some of the other hookers stole my money the last night there and i rang the cops but they said they couldnt do anything about it.

    I'm calling Bullshìt on this story.

    A hooker/stripper? These words are not interchangeable.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,980 ✭✭✭Dotrel


    €300.

    I was once in this sleazy lapdancing club in Paris. I'd already been drinking all day and went in there steaming drunk not looking for anything in particular. Before I knew it I had run up a bill of €600 on champagne & tits in my face. I had no idea of the prices (I imagine that's the whole point of their operation when they pull you in off the street) but seeing the figure sobered me up fairly quick. I went to the proprietor to discuss it and basically ask what the **** is going on here? He gave me the old line of "you buy you pay".

    I told him I wasn't paying. He said pay or I'm calling the police. I said "fine do that". I was fuming at this point. I didn't realise it but I was stomping around the bar area like a madman and unintentionally looking like I could probably take a few grands damage out on the propriator and his establishment before the police arrived. I'm a pretty big guy too so that probably added to the "illusion."

    Now all this time I was literally expecting the police to arrive, then my mate pointed out to me that there was no police coming at all and that the propriator had probably phoned a couple of heavys to come down and kick the **** out of me.

    At this point I told the guy I'd pay half. He seemed happy enough to get the incident overwith. I paid €300 and got the hell out of there. Maybe no one was coming, but I didn't want to find out.

    Moral of the story. Don't order the champagne!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,086 ✭✭✭Fbjm


    When my dad was buying me my MBP he got like 45 euro off a good case, and only had to pay a fiver for it :o They offered us one for free but it had no handle so of course we were like, hello? I'll be carrying it from time to time :pac:


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,571 ✭✭✭newmug


    Dotrel wrote: »
    €300.

    I was once in this sleazy lapdancing club in Paris. I'd already been drinking all day and went in there steaming drunk not looking for anything in particular. Before I knew it I had run up a bill of €600 on champagne & tits in my face. I had no idea of the prices (I imagine that's the whole point of their operation when they pull you in off the street) but seeing the figure sobered me up fairly quick. I went to the proprietor to discuss it and basically ask what the **** is going on here? He gave me the old line of "you buy you pay".

    I told him I wasn't paying. He said pay or I'm calling the police. I said "fine do that". I was fuming at this point. I didn't realise it but I was stomping around the bar area like a madman and unintentionally looking like I could probably take a few grands damage out on the propriator and his establishment before the police arrived. I'm a pretty big guy too so that probably added to the "illusion."

    Now all this time I was literally expecting the police to arrive, then my mate pointed out to me that there was no police coming at all and that the propriator had probably phoned a couple of heavys to come down and kick the **** out of me.

    At this point I told the guy I'd pay half. He seemed happy enough to get the incident overwith. I paid €300 and got the hell out of there. Maybe no one was coming, but I didn't want to find out.

    Moral of the story. Don't order the champagne!



    Very similar situation happened to a lad I used to work with. Him and his friend went to Romania. They went to a disco, they weren't too drunk or anything. These 2 young ones came up to them and offered them a drink. The boys accepted, chat ensued, then dancing, then more drink etc.

    At the end of the night, the bouncers stopped them at the door and said they had to pay. The boys said for what? The bouncers said that the young ones were actually whures, and that they owe E20K in bills! The boys told them to fcuk off. So the bouncers got my mate and held him, while 2 other bouncers kicked the unmerciful sh1te out of the other fella. Then they let my mate go, and told him they were keeping his friend, and he had to come up with the 20K by tomorrow or they'd kill the friend.

    My mate went straight to the cops. The cops said that there was nothing they could do, the place was illegal anyway and the lads shouldn't have gone into it in the first place. Basically they didnt care.

    So my mate rang around, managed to gather a few grand, and went back the next day to pay it. They released his mate, and he brought him to a hospital. This happened 2 years ago, and my mate's mate is now in a wheelchair from the bateing.

    Moral of the story, dont go into those dodgy fcuking places!





    Best haggle, got an extra tenner per day in a job once. Paid off well in the long run.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,572 ✭✭✭✭brummytom


    £100 off a 3 or 4 hundred pound guitar for dad. Buying a banjo in a bit for £1,200. Should get at least £100 off that.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 657 ✭✭✭Sooopie


    newmug wrote: »
    Very similar situation happened to a lad I used to work with. Him and his friend went to Romania. They went to a disco, they weren't too drunk or anything. These 2 young ones came up to them and offered them a drink. The boys accepted, chat ensued, then dancing, then more drink etc.

    At the end of the night, the bouncers stopped them at the door and said they had to pay. The boys said for what? The bouncers said that the young ones were actually whures, and that they owe E20K in bills! The boys told them to fcuk off. So the bouncers got my mate and held him, while 2 other bouncers kicked the unmerciful sh1te out of the other fella. Then they let my mate go, and told him they were keeping his friend, and he had to come up with the 20K by tomorrow or they'd kill the friend.

    My mate went straight to the cops. The cops said that there was nothing they could do, the place was illegal anyway and the lads shouldn't have gone into it in the first place. Basically they didnt care.

    So my mate rang around, managed to gather a few grand, and went back the next day to pay it. They released his mate, and he brought him to a hospital. This happened 2 years ago, and my mate's mate is now in a wheelchair from the bateing.

    Moral of the story, dont go into those dodgy fcuking places!





    Best haggle, got an extra tenner per day in a job once. Paid off well in the long run.

    :eek: i live a sheltered life


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,980 ✭✭✭Dotrel


    newmug wrote: »
    Moral of the story, dont go into those dodgy fcuking places!

    Amen to that. Sometimes I think it was the worst €300 I ever spent, other days I think it was the best €300.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 22,048 ✭✭✭✭Snowie


    xzanti wrote: »
    In before 'Yore Ma'

    in were this is about discounts


    If your thinking about vicounts maybe you could help me campaign for a dyslexic forum :):D:p

    I got 50 euros of a 2 terabite hard drive costing me all of 80 euros :cool::D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,350 ✭✭✭gigino


    why haggle over something in a shop, and cut the salary of the person trying to scratch a living, and de-motivate them, when an hour later you go in to a restaurant and leave a tip ? I could never understand that.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,381 ✭✭✭Doom


    gigino wrote: »
    why haggle over something in a shop, and cut the salary of the person trying to scratch a living, and de-motivate them, when an hour later you go in to a restaurant and leave a tip ? I could never understand that.

    Restaurant....tip.....no resession around here


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,692 ✭✭✭GEasy


    newmug wrote: »
    Very similar situation happened to a lad I used to work with. Him and his friend went to Romania. They went to a disco, they weren't too drunk or anything. These 2 young ones came up to them and offered them a drink. The boys accepted, chat ensued, then dancing, then more drink etc.

    At the end of the night, the bouncers stopped them at the door and said they had to pay. The boys said for what? The bouncers said that the young ones were actually whures, and that they owe E20K in bills! The boys told them to fcuk off. So the bouncers got my mate and held him, while 2 other bouncers kicked the unmerciful sh1te out of the other fella. Then they let my mate go, and told him they were keeping his friend, and he had to come up with the 20K by tomorrow or they'd kill the friend.

    My mate went straight to the cops. The cops said that there was nothing they could do, the place was illegal anyway and the lads shouldn't have gone into it in the first place. Basically they didnt care.

    So my mate rang around, managed to gather a few grand, and went back the next day to pay it. They released his mate, and he brought him to a hospital. This happened 2 years ago, and my mate's mate is now in a wheelchair from the bateing.

    Moral of the story, dont go into those dodgy fcuking places!





    Best haggle, got an extra tenner per day in a job once. Paid off well in the long run.

    ****! Most I got off was 60euro for a watch


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,293 ✭✭✭✭Mint Sauce


    About €120 off a digital camera, also got a Camera bag and memory card chucked in.


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