Do you haggle?

mikemac1

Was getting the bike repaired today and a few other bits n'pieces like new tyres

When it came time to pay I haggled and got a few freebies. Nothing big now, just some accessories.

Thinking back now the last time I haggled hard was buying a TV, got money off then. They have a margin built in to allow for discounts. Or I bought an iPod, chanced asking for an armband that joggers use and got it. Doesn't always work but worth a try.

If I'm spending a fair sum of money I would expect to haggle. But not over small things like day to day shopping

Businesses do it with their suppliers and so everyone can do it too

How are your haggling skills? Are you razor sharp?

keith16

I was in a bar in Barcelona with a mate and some dude came in selling hats for a fiver a pop.

My mate haggled him down to €2.25 for 2! It was hilarious. Because we were drunk.

kneemos

Rather not look like a miserable git.

Half Rhodesian

i always try but i'm terrible at it. if someone was selling me a car for say e500 i'd nearly end up paying em 6 for it ???????

mikeyjames9

only for sex

otherwise I can't be bothered

wazky

I tend to find I'm much more successful at haggling with a balaclava on, I usually get it for free in fact.

kryogen

I do but its generally for more expensive stuff like a bed, car, oven etc

Fat Christy

Never in Ireland, sometimes when I show a bitta boob I don't even have to haggle. :pac:

The only time I have ever really haggled was on holidays and when I used to go to the markets here. Haven't been in a while.

EDIT: Actually, I knocked a lot of the original price of my car.

keith16

Fat Christy wrote: »

sometimes when I show a bitta boob I don't even have to haggle. :pac:

Er, I have something for "sale" that may interest you. PM me for details. Price "negotiable".

EDIT: Just noticed your username there. Nevermind.

wazky

Fat Christy wrote: »

Never in Ireland, sometimes when I show a bitta boob I don't even have to haggle. :pac:

I would have thought that once they pull up in the car that their business is yours either way?

Fat Christy

keith16 wrote: »

Er, I have something for "sale" that may interest you. PM me for details. Price "negotiable".

EDIT: Just noticed your username there. Nevermind.

wazky wrote: »

I would have thought that once they pull up in the car that their business is yours either way?

Oooooohhhh double slap across the face!!!

I'll have you know I am a classy classy bird.

Sir Osis of Liver.

ireland.man

The worst is when you see tourists energetically haggling with local merchants in poorer countries as if it's a game and not someone's livelihood their playing with.

I Voted For Kodos

Occasionally, when I know there's wiggle room. Not gonna argue anything less than a couple hundred quid. But I'll be ****ed if I can't get a few bob off a phone or tablet, or at least a case thrown in.

Sir Arthur Daley

Haggle all the time, got some great bargains in the charity shop today.

Banjo String

Every single work day , its the nature of my business, quantity breakage? Etc.

kneemos wrote: »

Rather not look like a miserable git.

I find it easier to be callled a miserable git (pronounced shrewd fcuker) than being called a feckin eejitfor paying more than 3 times the actual price a seller would have accepted. You'll also gain some respect from the guy if a long term business relationship develops,as he'll know you're not someone to bull**** around.

Tail Docker

Banjo String wrote: »

Every single work day , its the nature of my business, quantity breakage? Etc.




I find it easier to be callled a miserable but (shrewd fcuker) than being called a feckin eejitfor paying more than 3 times the actual price a seller would have accepted. You'll also gain some respect from the guy if a long term business relationship develops,as he'll know you're not someone to bull**** around.

Yeah, I'm fcuking haggling with you from now on.:D:pac: I have printed this out and will poke it at you every time we do a deal.

kneemos

Sir Arthur Daley wrote: »

Haggle all the time, got some great bargains in the charity shop today.

You whaaaaaaa!

Banjo String

Tail Docker wrote: »

Yeah, I'm fcuking haggling with you from now on.:D:pac: I have printed this out and will poke it at you every time we do a deal.

OK here's how it will go.


Tail docker. Much that yoke banjo?

Me, 275

Tail docker, give ya 200

Me, could ya go.... 350?

Tail docker, na too steep.... 275 my limit?

Me, done /shakes hand, walks off smoking montecristo Cuban.

Tail Docker

Banjo String wrote: »

OK here's how it will go.


Tail docker. Much that yoke banjo?

Me, 275

Tail docker, give ya 200

Me, could ya go.... 350?

Tail docker, na too steep.... 275 my limit?

Me, done /shakes hand, walks off smoking montecristo Cuban.

Damn. So, no change there then?

Jesus Wept

ireland.man wrote: »

The worst is when you see tourists energetically haggling with local merchants in poorer countries as if it's a game and not someone's livelihood their playing with.

So pay them 20x what they are willing to sell for/make a good profit on, makes sense. Let me know if you want to buy anything.

Sir Arthur Daley

Nearly everyone will entertain a haggler once they arent taking the piss. Only ones who wont haggle are priests, i had station dues and a yearly mass to pay and the priest would not stir.

Tail Docker

wazky wrote: »

I tend to find I'm much more successful at haggling with a balaclava on, I usually get it for free in fact.

A warm head is a haggling head. It's hard to haggle properly with cold ears.

callaway92

Often haggle to knock a few quick off something if it's €100+ and I'm paying by cash.

shruikan2553

Sometimes. Often if I'm buying something expensive I'm buying it in the cheapest place Ive found so it makes it difficult when you can't claim its cheaper at some other place. If I'm buying a few things though it isn't too bad.

Deranged96

My father is the King of the Hagglers.... a beef factory agent for the last 30 years and a tight-fisted farmer since he was born.
His favoruit pearl of Wisdom- "Only haggle if you have the gumption to walk out"

Bongalongherb

When a retail store/other is trying to sell an item I will haggle at my best to get a deal, it would be rude not to. I do not side with conformity to a price list

mad muffin

I haggled with a prostitute once… she ended up paying me…

Penny Tration

I don't do it, because I fcuking hate when people do it to me in work. I have the authority to discount some specific items, and ONLY those specific items, if customers buy more than one item. But nope, that's not good enough for some cnuts.

Something costs 15 euro, they say they'll give me ten. When I say no, they hand me 12 and say they have no more money, expecting me to give in. Then when I explain that I can't discount the tthing they're buying, they magically pull out the rest of the money, while muttering about what a bitch I am.

So nope. I don't do it.

FTA69

ireland.man wrote: »

The worst is when you see tourists energetically haggling with local merchants in poorer countries as if it's a game and not someone's livelihood their playing with.

B*llocks. Even after haggling the sh*t out of it with merchants in places like Morocco and Turkey etc, you'll still probably end up paying more than the locals do. Just because you're a foreigner doesn't mean you have to dole out cash willy nilly and pay way over the odds for everything. If you do, you're a fool.

MS.ing

mad muffin wrote: »

I haggled with a prostitute once… she ended up paying me…to **** off

fyp

ireland.man

i heart chewy louie wrote: »

So pay them 20x what they are willing to sell for/make a good profit on, makes sense. Let me know if you want to buy anything.

What's a good profit? Is it relative to the money you'll spend getting pissed on that sun holiday? Or is it related to what you can afford coming from a wealthier country to a developed nation?

csallmighty

A few years ago my uncle haggled the price of a generator from €350 down to €20 :pac:

Well he didn't really, he wasn't interested at all, it was a traveller who was trying to sell it so kept lowering the price every time my uncle said no. He probably just wanted a few quid so desperately tried to pawn off a good for nothing generator on us.

Cienciano

ireland.man wrote: »

What's a good profit? Is it relative to the money you'll spend getting pissed on that sun holiday? Or is it related to what you can afford coming from a wealthier country to a developed nation?

They won't sell it if it's not worth their while. Don't worry, they won't be losing money.

ireland.man

Cienciano wrote: »

They won't sell it if it's not worth their while. Don't worry, they won't be losing money.

It's not about losing money, it's about the ethics of it all. If I'm a millionaire I shouldn't haggle with a homeless man over the cost of the Big Issue!

Tail Docker

ireland.man wrote: »

It's not about losing money, it's about the ethics of it all. If I'm a millionaire I shouldn't haggle with a homeless man over the cost of the Big Issue!

A man I know, one of the genuinely wealthy people, a power behind the scenes in Ireland once watched me haggle with a lad trying to sell me somthing. Afterwards, he pulled me aside and goes "Tail, don't haggle, it's stupid. And rude. A mans price is a mans price. Either say yes or say no, thank you, and walk away, there and then. After a while, people stop expecting you to haggle and just give you their best price every-time."

I try, but it's tough betimes.

Sir Arthur Daley

Tail Docker wrote: »

A man I know, one of the genuinely wealthy people, a power behind the scenes in Ireland once watched me haggle with a lad trying to sell me somthing. Afterwards, he pulled me aside and goes "Tail, don't haggle, it's stupid. And rude. A mans price is a mans price. Either say yes or say no, thank you, and walk away, there and then. After a while, people stop expecting you to haggle and just give you their best price every-time."

I try, but it's tough betimes.

This mans view would not be popular amongst the masses.

Micky Dolenz

I haggle all the time. I used to do it a lot as part of a job I had for many years so it's something that has stuck.

I also love to visit markets and shur them lads love an ould haggle.

Young Blood

I sold my motorcycle a year and half after paying 800 euros for it. I took the transport box I got with it off and sold it separately for 50 euro and I got 700 hundred for the bike. I got 750 in total which wasn't bad considering the bike was a heap of s.hit by the time I was finished with it.
I'm surprised your man wasn't killed on it on the way home.

ha ha ha

osarusan

Not haggling exactly, but I once visited a shop called Hard Off, which is a Japanese recycle shop.

There's a 'junk' section, where you can buy stuff that's broken, but could be good for parts. I bought a guitar there for about 5 euros - it was in the junk section because when you tried to tune one of the strings, the tuning peg was a bit sharp so it would actually cut/snap the string.

Anyway I messed around with it for a bit, then took it to another branch of Hard Off on the other side of town, and sold it back to them. They didn't spot the flaw and gave me about 50 euros for it.

Felt like Del Boy.

dreamers75

if paying cash and its over 100 yes.

Stupid not to tbh

mad muffin

MS.ing wrote: »

fyp

fyp?! FYP?!

No one fyp's me! NO ONE!!!!!!!

kryogen

ireland.man wrote: »

What's a good profit? Is it relative to the money you'll spend getting pissed on that sun holiday? Or is it related to what you can afford coming from a wealthier country to a developed nation?

Good profit is a good margin relative to the individual product.

boobar

If its for big purchases, I'll always look for a discount or a little something extra

Tail Docker

Young Blood wrote: »

I sold my motorcycle a year and half after paying 800 euros for it. I took the transport box I got with it off and sold it separately for 50 euro and I got 700 hundred for the bike. I got 750 in total which wasn't bad considering the bike was a heap of s.hit by the time I was finished with it.
I'm surprised your man wasn't killed on it on the way home.

ha ha ha

No, no, you're confusing haggling with mugging someone over. After a while, when you're a bit of an older blood, you'll discover Karma is a bitch.

Jesus Wept

ireland.man wrote: »

What's a good profit? Is it relative to the money you'll spend getting pissed on that sun holiday? Or is it related to what you can afford coming from a wealthier country to a developed nation?

It's neither.

Tail Docker wrote: »

A man I know, one of the genuinely wealthy people, a power behind the scenes in Ireland once watched me haggle with a lad trying to sell me somthing. Afterwards, he pulled me aside and goes "Tail, don't haggle, it's stupid. And rude. A mans price is a mans price. Either say yes or say no, thank you, and walk away, there and then. After a while, people stop expecting you to haggle and just give you their best price every-time."

I try, but it's tough betimes.

Penny apples

Pat Mustard

There is money to be made or lost by haggling.

If you accept full price without attempting to haggle, you can lose out.

There is little to lose by enquiring,

qo2cj1dsne8y4k

Wouldn't haggle, if I see the price of something I can either afford it or I can't. I wouldn't even have thought to argue about the price.
Last week I was ordering carpet and a new bed for my new bedroom. It came to something in/around 1600. The man that sold it to me told me he'd throw in the underlay for the carpet, and that if we buy the bedside tables I was looking at, that he'd discount them for us. But, I didn't ask.

Mountainsandh

No, I'd be mortified.

I give Mr M "the look" and he comes over to deliver on the haggling front. I then surrepticiously shuffle away my own self to a non-morto zone. He's good at it.

Lenin Skynard

Yes I haggle. I didn't vote in the poll because it's phrased in such an idiotic way that I can't vote.

con___manx1

I haggled with a traveller recently got him down from 50 to a tenner. just let on I wasn't really interested in buying even tho I was haha. Got some cheap fishing gear