Do you ever haggle?

As someone who used to work in a clothes shop and a take away, all of those people who try to haggle the price in inappropriate places can go **** themselves.

I understand if it's a damaged item or whatever but if you're just haggling the price on the tag/menu then you can **** right off!!

I'm busy enough already, I don't need you wasting my damn time with your nonsense. I think there was something around 2010/2011 where some TV show or something encouraged people to haggle. It got way more common.

I took to doing this; if someone even tried haggling (usually after you'd detagged and put the item in a bag). I'd whip the item out of the bag and go to open the drawer with the tags and say in a really sing song overly nice voice 'ah so you don't want it then'. Nobody ever walked away, they always paid the full price.

The takeaway was worse but I was younger then so I would just get stressed out when people would try it. It's a take away! We don't have a 10% off button on the till. How on earth do you think I can take less money than I'm supposed to.

Also what makes you think I'm going to risk my job by giving you an unauthorised discount?

Working in retail is a thankless enough job, why make it even harder for them by chancing your arm when you have no chance especially if there is a queue of 3 people or so behind you. You're not buying a car or in market in Bangkok!

Don't get me started on the amount of people who would come to the till in the clothes shop with a sob story and ask for money off..... oh sure, you need that sparkly dress (we sold the kind of clothes you wear on a night out). That's definitely a necessity! I used to say 'Oh I'm sorry, I can't do that but maybe try Penney's, I was in there yesterday and they have some lovely stuff.' 9 times out of 10, they still bought the dress.

893bet wrote: »

Depends.

They say you can do it in harvey norman.

Dont forget, they have a midnight sale on now. The rarely have sales and dont advertise much so be quick

I'd definitely haggle, but it all depends on where you are. It's expected at markets and places like that but it's impossible in a big retail store where your talking to a kid that's working their for the summer.

My favourite technique is to look at something for ages - then when someone comes over ask how much it is - even though there's a big sticker with the price on it - say oh I don't have enough - immediately walk away (wait to hear the most beautiful words in the English language) "well how much do you have?" - bargain guaranteed! 😆

Of course it works great in a market or somewhere like that. Not a hope in most of the big retailers like pc world. Oh this laptop is E800?,let me just walk away - "how much do you have?"- E20 and half a breakfast roll - Sold!

John_Rambo wrote: »

Haggling is great, but there's a time and place for it! Nothing worst than some wealthy gobshlte haggling a third world marketeer to the lowest price ignoring cultural karma sensitivities!

I've sold and bought a good bit on adverts.ie and donedeal.ie and there's always been a bit of friendly haggling... all good and very agreeable, but once the deal was done it's all good. Very good natured and pleasurable.

I always give luck money and the amount of people that don't know what it is staggers me! The last few times I gave luck money back to youngfella's was met with immediate suspicion and skepticism! And these were proper Cork and Tip fella's!! They assumed the goods were faulty and that I was supplementing for some imaginary faults with the goods...

Is luck money not done any more?

(sold a surf board to an fifty something solid farming man from North Clare for his son, and it was a super board, perfect for a lad of his sons age and he properly kissed the money and hid it away in his clapped out landrover Defender and told me he'd give that luck money on to the next buyer on his cattle deal! legend)

I absolutely love the idea of "luck" money but I don't think that many people know about it? I wonder where it originated? I always took it to be a gesture of wishing someone good luck with the item you're selling.

I got it from my dad, who would always give a "few pound" back to someone buying anything from a cow to a car off him. A really nice tradition but I can see why someone would be skeptical if they'd never heard of it before

IMO the 11th Commandment should have been, 'Thy must always haggle in a clothes shop'. The mark up in the rag trade is well known to be enormous. When I shop in my local mans shop I will always ask for a discount and will always get one. Bought clothes recently for 450 euro and after asking for a discount got them for 410 euro, that's nearly 10%. Also when you go to those outdoor markets type places, well that nearly goes without saying.

FYI I'm not talking about the already heavily discounted clothes shops like Pennys or even Dunnes/Tescos. You'd get a short shrift there if you tried to haggle.

Nerdlingr wrote: »

Haggled a fiver off my christmas tree!! :pac:

:cool: So did I! Although I think it was more a case of some weary shop assistant getting sloppy with the labels and staple gun, coz it's definitely not "80-100cm" :pac: