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harvey norman waterford

  • 21-12-2013 3:47pm
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 124 ✭✭


    Went in today to buy a tablet. No samsung in stock. Nexus 7 not on display, had to ask to look at one, but they cannot open the box. Insisted on selling A LG tablet. Very pushy sales talk. Left, will try eslewhere tomorrow,any ideas.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,569 ✭✭✭eagerv


    Tesco apparently have a good deal on the Samsung Tab3, both 7 and 8 inch.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 573 ✭✭✭MacGyver


    Pc world had the Samsung tab 7 for 149 or169 with case today. Didn't spot the nexus but want looking for it so they could have it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 434 ✭✭TheBoffin


    Tesco Ardkeen have or at least had the nexus this-morning. Try DID across from tesco also.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 275 ✭✭ex_infantry


    call into frank frampton in kelly and dollard he'll sort ya


  • Moderators, Education Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Regional South East Moderators Posts: 24,056 Mod ✭✭✭✭Sully


    Was in Harvey Norman this evening looking at a printer. Far from pushy for me. The girl showed me some products, made some recommendations, and left it for me to decide. I asked if I buy it, would she get any credit and she didn't seem to think it would be that big of a deal for her but thanked me, wrote a number on the box and left me to decide.

    I work in sales myself and personally found this the right approach. Didn't push anything on me, but gave me the various options and let me decide.

    Another chap that was there said there would be reductions in the Stephen's Day Sale. Didn't push anything on us.

    I guess it depends on the rep but I haven't ever found Harvey Norman reps pushy.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,099 ✭✭✭spankmemunkey


    I was in Harvey Normans about a month ago looking for a desktop and a high end desk top at that. I was in and out a few times as i was comparing prices but every time i suggested a haggle or a deal i more or less got a blank refusal, I reminded them that there was an advert not so long ago about comon in and haggle with us, fat lot of good it did me, I was spending over 1000 on a computer and i asked what can you do on price i was told pretty much nothing. I made it clear that i HAD to buy a computer and I had cash with me, that didnt bother them and I ended up going to PC World, I was buying a separate desk top a separate monitor security microsoft office etc etc. not a bit of a budge.


  • Moderators, Education Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Regional South East Moderators Posts: 24,056 Mod ✭✭✭✭Sully


    I was in Harvey Normans about a month ago looking for a desktop and a high end desk top at that. I was in and out a few times as i was comparing prices but every time i suggested a haggle or a deal i more or less got a blank refusal, I reminded them that there was an advert not so long ago about comon in and haggle with us, fat lot of good it did me, I was spending over 1000 on a computer and i asked what can you do on price i was told pretty much nothing. I made it clear that i HAD to buy a computer and I had cash with me, that didnt bother them and I ended up going to PC World, I was buying a separate desk top a separate monitor security microsoft office etc etc. not a bit of a budge.

    I assume the haggle was a promotion and something they can't permanently do


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,743 ✭✭✭Wanderer2010


    I was in Harvey Normans about a month ago looking for a desktop and a high end desk top at that. I was in and out a few times as i was comparing prices but every time i suggested a haggle or a deal i more or less got a blank refusal, I reminded them that there was an advert not so long ago about comon in and haggle with us, fat lot of good it did me, I was spending over 1000 on a computer and i asked what can you do on price i was told pretty much nothing. I made it clear that i HAD to buy a computer and I had cash with me, that didnt bother them and I ended up going to PC World, I was buying a separate desk top a separate monitor security microsoft office etc etc. not a bit of a budge.

    Yep, I have been there. Was looking at their desktops a year ago and found one that really suited me with the features etc and before I knew it the sales rep was guiding me to the checkout and asking if i wanted to pay by cash or card! Annoyed at this overly forward and pushy approach I told her I have a few to look at to compare first, and also said could she give me a deal given that I had bought a LOT of accessories for my PC there over the years and she flat out refused to budge on price, I was only looking for 40 quid off it and the PC cost over a grand! This whole crap of "haggle with us for a bargain" is just a sales ploy because they know Irish people dont want to offend people by haggling others so in most cases they just accept the price on offer and get the deal over and done with, so the odd time when you DO try to haggle you are just point blank refused.

    It happens with car insurance, house insurance, buying furniture etc, I have never been able to haggle anything off the asking price, even when I point out how much business I have given them. Even in a recession our shops are obviously doing well enough to lose business when people walk out after being refused. I for one wont be shopping in Harvey Norman after their approach but I dont think that will matter a dot to the profit line. Shame.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,183 ✭✭✭Quigs Snr


    Forget about the Samsung. If you are looking for something decent in the lower price range the original model Nexus can be got for about 179 in some places. Best value I have seen locally of late is the ASUS Memo HD in PCWorld for 159. Nice spec, can't be beaten for the money locally. Significantly better than the Samsung Galaxy Tab 3, The HP Slate, the LG, all those cheap nasty no-namers too.

    They had loads of stock the other day too in 4 different colours. I was getting one as a gift for someone and it seemed to be as good as my Nexus (original model).


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,322 ✭✭✭Dicky Pride


    If you were trying to get a haggle on an apple product, it just doesn't and can't happen.

    When you say high end desktop you may well have been referring to an iMac.

    Most people try and haggle in a place, have no joy, storm out, and pay full price elsewhere.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,682 ✭✭✭deisemum


    When it comes to haggling you've a better chance with an independent owner run place than a branch of a chain store.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 972 ✭✭✭Digital Society


    Google search is your best way of haggling.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,784 ✭✭✭Motivator


    I was in Harvey Normans about a month ago looking for a desktop and a high end desk top at that. I was in and out a few times as i was comparing prices but every time i suggested a haggle or a deal i more or less got a blank refusal, I reminded them that there was an advert not so long ago about comon in and haggle with us, fat lot of good it did me, I was spending over 1000 on a computer and i asked what can you do on price i was told pretty much nothing. I made it clear that i HAD to buy a computer and I had cash with me, that didnt bother them and I ended up going to PC World, I was buying a separate desk top a separate monitor security microsoft office etc etc. not a bit of a budge.

    If you were spending over €1,000 on a desktop, do you mind me askin how much you wanted off it? €40 or €50? You seem like one of those annoying customers who just want to give out for the sake of it. You want a product, you know the price. What entitles you to a discount? You had €1,000 to spend, unless the computer cost €1,010 & you didn't have the €10 then you'd be entitled to complain but complaining about not receiving something you've no right to be given is laughable.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 972 ✭✭✭Digital Society


    Motivator wrote: »
    If you were spending over €1,000 on a desktop, do you mind me askin how much you wanted off it? €40 or €50? You seem like one of those annoying customers who just want to give out for the sake of it. You want a product, you know the price. What entitles you to a discount? You had €1,000 to spend, unless the computer cost €1,010 & you didn't have the €10 then you'd be entitled to complain but complaining about not receiving something you've no right to be given is laughable.

    Harvey Norman ran a national campaign telling people to go into their shops and do it.

    Id say that entitles him to go in and ask for a discount.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,784 ✭✭✭Motivator


    Harvey Norman ran a national campaign telling people to go into their shops and do it.

    Id say that entitles him to go in and ask for a discount.

    There's certain products they can't give a discount on. I'd still love to know what he thinks he was entitled to though.

    I bought a tv there at the start of the summer & the chap through in the stand for free. I would imagine it was because I was a pleasure to deal with & didn't go asking for things I'm not entitled to.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,743 ✭✭✭Wanderer2010


    Motivator wrote: »
    There's certain products they can't give a discount on. I'd still love to know what he thinks he was entitled to though.

    I bought a tv there at the start of the summer & the chap through in the stand for free. I would imagine it was because I was a pleasure to deal with & didn't go asking for things I'm not entitled to.

    Wow what a condescending and sarcastic reply, hows life up in the high horse? The OP specifically mentioned that the campaign encouraged customers to ask for a bargain or haggle. I know some Apple products cant be discounted on but my own experience was I was buying a non Apple PC and some software and it came to something silly like 1041euros, I asked for the 41euros to be taken off seeing as I was a familiar face and had given them a LOT of business (remember, we are in a recession, well you might not be but to a lot of people 40euros could provide a weekly shop in Aldi). I was refused point blank so I took my business elsewhere and havent been back. Its not being a d!ck to haggle, its just I find Irish people are too afraid of offending people to even attempt it but dont tar us all with the same brush please. Harvey Norman are not haggle friendly, simple as that.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,099 ✭✭✭spankmemunkey


    Motivator wrote: »
    If you were spending over €1,000 on a desktop, do you mind me askin how much you wanted off it? €40 or €50? You seem like one of those annoying customers who just want to give out for the sake of it. You want a product, you know the price. What entitles you to a discount? You had €1,000 to spend, unless the computer cost €1,010 & you didn't have the €10 then you'd be entitled to complain but complaining about not receiving something you've no right to be given is laughable.


    You must be very young, or very rich, there was a time when you went to a shop and bought a few things for a house with cash you'd ask for a good deal, asking doesnt cost anything. you would also shop around and see can you get the thing cheaper somewhere else, or say I can get that cheaper in the other shop and give them the chance to say well we can do it for that price too.



    Dollards useto be great for it they did me a great deal when i bought a hoover a deep fat fryer a kettle and a few bits like that they threw in the kettle for free. When i went to PC world i got a free memory card or stick normally worth 50 euro, and as other posters pointed out they useto run adverts saying come in and haggle with us.

    If you gonna make presumptions about me and say you must be this or you must be that Im gonna presume that your a Celtic Tiger pup who had everything handed to him, I dont know anybody who goes into a shop making a fairly big purchase and doesnt try and do a deal, and i have to say for me it always works.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,784 ✭✭✭Motivator


    You must be very young, or very rich, there was a time when you went to a shop and bought a few things for a house with cash you'd ask for a good deal, asking doesnt cost anything. you would also shop around and see can you get the thing cheaper somewhere else, or say I can get that cheaper in the other shop and give them the chance to say well we can do it for that price too.



    Dollards useto be great for it they did me a great deal when i bought a hoover a deep fat fryer a kettle and a few bits like that they threw in the kettle for free. When i went to PC world i got a free memory card or stick normally worth 50 euro, and as other posters pointed out they useto run adverts saying come in and haggle with us.

    If you gonna make presumptions about me and say you must be this or you must be that Im gonna presume that your a Celtic Tiger pup who had everything handed to him, I dont know anybody who goes into a shop making a fairly big purchase and doesnt try and do a deal, and i have to say for me it always works.

    Ok so, the next time I need petrol I'll go to the garage & tell then I want €50 petrol but I'm only going to pay €40 for it. I'll see how I get on.

    Also, it obviously doesn't always work for you seeing as you're on here bitching about it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,099 ✭✭✭spankmemunkey


    Motivator wrote: »
    Ok so, the next time I need petrol I'll go to the garage & tell then I want €50 petrol but I'm only going to pay €40 for it. I'll see how I get on.

    Also, it obviously doesn't always work for you seeing as you're on here bitching about it.

    Wow you seem a bit bent out of shape. It normally doesnt apply to goods that we buy on a fairly regular basis food clothes PETROL, it normally applies to things that we buy every few YEARS computers or buying more than one thing and in my case i was buying a desk top worth over €700 a monitor over €150 Microsoft office roughly €150-€190, Internet Security €90 roughly so I was buying quite a few bits in a shop where by their own advertising i was told to haggle and you have some neck making accusations when I was only doing what i was encouraged to do by the shop owner, where does the word haggle come from? its made up is it? I did everything that I was entitled to do and envited to do by the business owner and you come on here criticising me for that in a very irrational manner and im not that only one on here that pointed that out to you.


  • Moderators, Education Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Regional South East Moderators Posts: 24,056 Mod ✭✭✭✭Sully


    TVs, Computers etc. you generally can't get a discount on presumably due to low margins. That Haggle event was run back in 2009 over a period of days in March. I'd assume if the sales rep could haggle, he would? Who knows. But we appear to have different experiences in terms of pushy sales reps tho.

    I have often heard the 'We have been shopping with you for years' line when the client is unknown or is known to spend very little. Kelly & Dollard used to look after regular clients fairly well, they would know the regulars, not sure if the new crowd do.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,099 ✭✭✭spankmemunkey


    Sully wrote: »
    TVs, Computers etc. you generally can't get a discount on presumably due to low margins. That Haggle event was run back in 2009 over a period of days in March. I'd assume if the sales rep could haggle, he would? Who knows. But we appear to have different experiences in terms of pushy sales reps tho.

    I have often heard the 'We have been shopping with you for years' line when the client is unknown or is known to spend very little. Kelly & Dollard used to look after regular clients fairly well, they would know the regulars, not sure if the new crowd do.

    In fairness i had never been in Dollards in my life, We were just shopping around we had items already picked out, we told them that we could buy the items cheaper in an english multi national but wanted to buy local Irish owned business(I know they aren't family owned now) we wanted to buy a few items Dyson Hoover deep fat fryer toaster kettle and a few bits like, they said ok we will do you a deal seens how your buying a few bits here got the kettle free and 5 or 10 euro off each product. we were delighted and we have since gone back, makes good business sense, obviously not if someone is just buying a kettle but a few items over 1000 euro, like a computer, i didnt get a good deal in Hardly Normal but i got a good deal in PC World and a few bits thrown in for free


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 434 ✭✭TheBoffin


    This is the current offer in Harvey Norman. If you see the same item in another shop cheaper then ask for it at that price or go to the other shop and buy it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 972 ✭✭✭Digital Society


    Motivator wrote: »
    Ok so, the next time I need petrol I'll go to the garage & tell then I want €50 petrol but I'm only going to pay €40 for it. I'll see how I get on.

    Also, it obviously doesn't always work for you seeing as you're on here bitching about it.

    I think youve a touch of depression or something.

    Are you stuck in some ****ty job selling iPads or something?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 602 ✭✭✭savic04


    try soundstore. they have a price promise so can match any price.


    Apple stuff has no mark up so hard to haggle on their stuff


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,784 ✭✭✭Motivator


    I think youve a touch of depression or something.

    Are you stuck in some ****ty job selling iPads or something?

    Nope, I have a great job actually. May I ask, what is wrong with someone selling IPads? That's a strange statement I must admit. It's a bit lost on me.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 972 ✭✭✭Digital Society


    Motivator wrote: »
    Nope, I have a great job actually. May I ask, what is wrong with someone selling IPads? That's a strange statement I must admit. It's a bit lost on me.

    Good on you but why the need to constantly complain. Youre clearly depressed. Cheer up.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 124 ✭✭manor


    savic04 wrote: »
    try soundstore. they have a price promise so can match any price.


    Apple stuff has no mark up so hard to haggle on their stuff

    Got sorted in DID Electrial.
    Samsung tablets are 20 euro cheaper than harvey norman and pc world and saved 70 euro on a nexus tablet.
    90 euro saved without too much effort.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,784 ✭✭✭Motivator


    Good on you but why the need to constantly complain. Youre clearly depressed. Cheer up.

    You still didn't answer my question.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,099 ✭✭✭spankmemunkey


    TheBoffin wrote: »
    This is the current offer in Harvey Norman. If you see the same item in another shop cheaper then ask for it at that price or go to the other shop and buy it.

    That was a good link, kinda says it all, As for someone pointing out that come in and haggle was an old add campaign, I dont think theres a time limit placed on haggling? They didnt say come in and haggle with us between now and the end of the month.

    Make sure you let us know if you find a cheaper price, and we will try our best to look after you.

    Kinda says it all, let us know and we'll try look after you.

    By the way what kind of fool wouldnt be nice when going into haggle with staff? youd want to be some kind of fool to go in screaming and shouting saying i want money off! Motivator i think you dont have a leg to stand.


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  • Moderators, Education Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Regional South East Moderators Posts: 24,056 Mod ✭✭✭✭Sully


    That was a good link, kinda says it all, As for someone pointing out that come in and haggle was an old add campaign, I dont think theres a time limit placed on haggling? They didnt say come in and haggle with us between now and the end of the month.

    Funnily enough they did put a time limit on it.. :)
    Make sure you let us know if you find a cheaper price, and we will try our best to look after you.

    Kinda says it all, let us know and we'll try look after you.

    A lot of companies run this offer, not just Harvey Norman.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,099 ✭✭✭spankmemunkey


    Sully wrote: »
    Funnily enough they did put a time limit on it.. :)



    A lot of companies run this offer, not just Harvey Norman.

    Great, not doubting ye but can you prove that? and i know alot of companies do this, thats not proving anything by saying that, I was merely highlighting that they say come on in and we will try look after you and do you a good deal, everybody offers it, yet they say one thing and do another!


  • Moderators, Education Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Regional South East Moderators Posts: 24,056 Mod ✭✭✭✭Sully


    Great, not doubting ye but can you prove that? and i know alot of companies do this, thats not proving anything by saying that, I was merely highlighting that they say come on in and we will try look after you and do you a good deal, everybody offers it, yet they say one thing and do another!
    All customers are invited to go into their local Harvey Norman store and negotiate more value for their hard earned cash! It runs from March 5th8th.

    Source: http://www.independent.ie/regionals/droghedaindependent/news/haggle-at-harvey-norman-27131828.html

    Price Promise Examples:-

    https://www.tescopricepromise.com/
    http://www.pcworld.co.uk/gbuk/price-promise-875-theme.html


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,099 ✭✭✭spankmemunkey


    Sully wrote: »

    Good examples and you actually got me on the haggle thing but that was an EVENT, I doubt if you went in and said i am gonna haggle with you theyd reply by saying that offer is over, Haggling isnt an offer that can be over, and i would always go back and if i was buying a large item that i bought every 3 or 4 years i would haggle simple as that, Im fully aware of other price proimises i dont live under a rock, I have a Tesco club card and i get cash back on my receipt when they dont match other stores prices.

    However I wouldnt use tesco as an example as these are everyday items.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,784 ✭✭✭Motivator


    That was a good link, kinda says it all, As for someone pointing out that come in and haggle was an old add campaign, I dont think theres a time limit placed on haggling? They didnt say come in and haggle with us between now and the end of the month.

    Make sure you let us know if you find a cheaper price, and we will try our best to look after you.

    Kinda says it all, let us know and we'll try look after you.

    By the way what kind of fool wouldnt be nice when going into haggle with staff? youd want to be some kind of fool to go in screaming and shouting saying i want money off! Motivator i think you dont have a leg to stand.

    I don't have a leg to stand on regarding what? You didn't get your discount, I said you didn't get your discount because they're not obliged to give you one. Your statement, along with the one that other halfwit made about depression(?), makes absolutely zero sense.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,099 ✭✭✭spankmemunkey


    Motivator wrote: »
    I don't have a leg to stand on regarding what? You didn't get your discount, I said you didn't get your discount because they're not obliged to give you one. Your statement, along with the one that other halfwit made about depression(?), makes absolutely zero sense.

    Cos your coming across passive aggressive. No i didnt get my discount in Harvey Norman that was the whole arguement about haggling, thats why i went somewhere else. They didnt want to do a deal not only offer money off but maybe throw something in, do a deal as nice as i was it wasnt happening.

    I wasnt buying a CD i was buying a computer a piece of equipment that wasnt an everyday item that was high end and over 1000 euro with all the extras, I expected some sort of well we will give you this free or throw in a memory card or give you 40 euro off as your buying a monitor a computer internet security microsoft office and and and, but no they didnt want to do anything, where as PC world didnt let me walk out of the shop with my 1000 cash in my pocket, they responded to my haggling and my request for a deal and did so.

    The staff in Harvey Norman were all young kids probably like yourself who werent useto hardship or recession or have grown up in the celtic tiger era.

    Money was hard earned not to be squandered my whole philosophy unlike some people who get everything on credit and dont care about saving a few quid. Its nice for you that you dont have to worry about trying to save a few quid or shop around or haggle, It took me along time of going around and searching for the best deal and what shop was willing to do the best deal for me my family and the money i had to spend, and in the end i got my deal!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 98 ✭✭T17cH


    I was in harvey norman last week and spotted a pc screen it was 220 and i knew it was around 200 online, I tried to haggle with the sales guy he wasnt having any of it. So I walked away had a look around and before leaving decided id take the screen id rather pay 20 than wait for the online delivery, so went back and found another sales person and tried the same thing, i said iv seen it online for 200 and with very little convincing she said shed do 190. So what ever anyone says do try haggle, Its your cash your handing over, i dont know what there policy is on markup or what the sales people are allowed to take off the prices but pc world, harvey norman and sound store do allow for a few euro if your spending a few hundred.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,099 ✭✭✭spankmemunkey


    T17cH wrote: »
    I was in harvey norman last week and spotted a pc screen it was 220 and i knew it was around 200 online, I tried to haggle with the sales guy he wasnt having any of it. So I walked away had a look around and before leaving decided id take the screen id rather pay 20 than wait for the online delivery, so went back and found another sales person and tried the same thing, i said iv seen it online for 200 and with very little convincing she said shed do 190. So what ever anyone says do try haggle, Its your cash your handing over, i dont know what there policy is on markup or what the sales people are allowed to take off the prices but pc world, harvey norman and sound store do allow for a few euro if your spending a few hundred.

    Here Here!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 972 ✭✭✭Digital Society


    Motivator wrote: »
    You still didn't answer my question.

    The fact that your so defensive about Apple products is a bit strange is all. It made me think your involved with selling them somehow which i wouldnt call a great job as you say.

    Strange complex you have if something like someone haggling a few quid of a PC sets you off on a condescending rant. Which made me believe that you have some kind of depression / anxiety issue.

    Also Sully ive never bought a TV or PC without getting at least 50 quid off it. If you think theres no haggling with items like that i think your either too young or shopping in the wrong place.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,743 ✭✭✭Wanderer2010


    The fact that your so defensive about Apple products is a bit strange is all. It made me think your involved with selling them somehow which i wouldnt call a great job as you say.

    Strange complex you have if something like someone haggling a few quid of a PC sets you off on a condescending rant. Which made me believe that you have some kind of depression / anxiety issue.

    Also Sully ive never bought a TV or PC without getting at least 50 quid off it. If you think theres no haggling with items like that i think your either too young or shopping in the wrong place.

    Can I just interject here for a second and ask what you mean by "too young"? There are plenty of people out there of all ages who are not confident enough to haggle in shops for fear of offending, not coming naturally etc, then I have seen a few guys barely out of their teens haggling like pros in various shops. Example, PC world I saw this young guy about 21 reaming off the pros and cons of the latest antivirus software and where he could get it cheaper etc, guy really knew his stuff and he essentially got a 2 for 1 when he left the shop. Did staff just humor him in order to get him out? Possibly. My point is that you can be young and haggle well or old and be very unsure how to do it.

    The way Im reading your post is that young people are unable to haggle, is that what you mean?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,503 ✭✭✭thomasm


    Never paid full price for anything substantial in Harvey Normans. Would seem odd to me not to haggle out there. That's half the fun of it. Haggled a sofa from €1,600 to €950 and a mattress from 2k to €1200 in last few years. Does make you wonder about mark up though


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 972 ✭✭✭Digital Society


    Can I just interject here for a second and ask what you mean by "too young"? There are plenty of people out there of all ages who are not confident enough to haggle in shops for fear of offending, not coming naturally etc, then I have seen a few guys barely out of their teens haggling like pros in various shops. Example, PC world I saw this young guy about 21 reaming off the pros and cons of the latest antivirus software and where he could get it cheaper etc, guy really knew his stuff and he essentially got a 2 for 1 when he left the shop. Did staff just humor him in order to get him out? Possibly. My point is that you can be young and haggle well or old and be very unsure how to do it.

    The way Im reading your post is that young people are unable to haggle, is that what you mean?

    Not really. Just younger people tend to accept that all prices are final more often.

    No harm in saying is that the best price you can do on that? When buying something worth over a Grand. 90% of the time its not and youll get a few quid off.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,099 ✭✭✭spankmemunkey


    So nice to see so many people haggling and getting a good deal. looks like theres lots of people getting money of so Haggling does work, god forbid we all take a leaf out of Motivators book!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,245 ✭✭✭old gregg


    So nice to see so many people haggling and getting a good deal. looks like theres lots of people getting money of so Haggling does work, god forbid we all take a leaf out of Motivators book!

    OBJECTION! Leading the witness :P


  • Moderators, Education Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Regional South East Moderators Posts: 24,056 Mod ✭✭✭✭Sully


    Not really. Just younger people tend to accept that all prices are final more often.

    No harm in saying is that the best price you can do on that? When buying something worth over a Grand. 90% of the time its not and youll get a few quid off.

    99% of cases people won't budge in the corporate shops. The independent guys will try but these days a lot of pricing is to the wire anyway.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,751 ✭✭✭✭For Forks Sake


    Sully wrote: »

    And this is the key part....
    04 MARCH 2009

    Over 4.5 years ago.


  • Moderators, Education Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Regional South East Moderators Posts: 24,056 Mod ✭✭✭✭Sully


    And this is the key part....



    Over 4.5 years ago.

    Have they done the haggle event more recently? My understanding of the article was simply that the haggling was a once off event.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,751 ✭✭✭✭For Forks Sake


    Sully wrote: »
    Have they done the haggle event more recently? My understanding of the article was simply that the haggling was a once off event.

    Think they did it a couple of times in 09/early 10 if I remember right. Hasn't been done since.

    I remember one of the lads in a HN store (not Waterford) telling me at the time that a lot of people have no idea of the difference between 'haggle' and 'barter'


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29 spikadelica


    Recently looking to buy tablet for my daughter and as you would I went to all local retailers. Harvey Norman were very easy to deal with and as I said to sales guy that particular tablet was available on Amazon at such a price, he said that they would match price and throw in extra warranty free of charge. Kelly and Dollard were also able to promise same deal without warranty but at good discount from in-store price. It is worth doing your online research first and then armed with some prices going and trying to cut a deal.. it is unusual these days for retailers to refuse sales unless someone is looking for ridiculous deal.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,099 ✭✭✭spankmemunkey


    Recently looking to buy tablet for my daughter and as you would I went to all local retailers. Harvey Norman were very easy to deal with and as I said to sales guy that particular tablet was available on Amazon at such a price, he said that they would match price and throw in extra warranty free of charge. Kelly and Dollard were also able to promise same deal without warranty but at good discount from in-store price. It is worth doing your online research first and then armed with some prices going and trying to cut a deal.. it is unusual these days for retailers to refuse sales unless someone is looking for ridiculous deal.

    Exactly, thats what i did, took me ages to go round town and see who had the BEST OFFERS! and who could do the best deals prices etc, in the end i didnt go to Hardly Normal cos they didnt want to do any deals or bargains or anything. they wanted full price full stop no sweetners! so no thanks harvey norman i shopped around and got a good deal somewhere else spending over 1000 cash.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,784 ✭✭✭Motivator


    So nice to see so many people haggling and getting a good deal. looks like theres lots of people getting money of so Haggling does work, god forbid we all take a leaf out of Motivators book!

    Yeah, or you could just earn enough money so that you wouldn't have to beg for a discount. It's a shop pal, not a soup kitchen.


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