In HOng Kong,just asking the price and not buying gets them mad sometimes...
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From: Tom A. Trottier <TomATrottier@xxxxxxxx>
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sunday, January 07, 2001 1:44 AM
Subject: Re: [OM] [OT] Price haggling
This brings to mind one "haggle" I had in downtown Toronto, 30 years
ago. It was in a small import store. They had a Russian shortwave
radio, table model, for sale. I liked it, showed interest, asked the
price: $100. I demurred, the price kept going down, $10 by $10.
Finally, he offered it for $30, a real bargain. But I decided I
didn't need it. He got very mad!
Tom
On 5 Jan 2001, at 13:20, sayeth DaEyeGuy@xxxxxxx <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > It is very hard to haggle when the prices are already so low and the
people
> > have so little. It is as they do on a daily basis so like they say
"when
> in
> > Kathmandu,do as they...wait....oh well : ),
> > John R
>
> I know this feeling well..when I travel to Hong Kong I love to go to the
Jade
> Market...I take a calculator and punch in a bid, then give it to the
vendor
> and it's a lot of fun, and hillarious seeing them try to do their sales
> antics without use of a language with pantomine. I wag my head "no" and
start
> to leave, sometimes even going 2-3 booths down before they'll come after
me
> and offer what I wanted. It can be a real ruch to get it at 300f the
> original offer...
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