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When did people get the idea they could "barter" a better price for what they want to buy?

  • What I am asking is this.. if someone walks into a best buy and wants to purchase a computer, where does that person get the idea that best buy, just because the person asks, will lower the price to what the person wants to pay? Even if the product is already on sale, the person may not want to pay what the new price is. Best Buy doesn't have to lower the price just to make the sale and they don't have to discount the product any more than it already is... where does this attitude of thinking a person can"barter" just because its a electronic or because they don't want to pay as much as the price tag says come from? How do people think they have the right to do this? Reason I ask is I have never done this... I would think someone would look at me like I was crazy if I walked into a store and looked at a product and then said " can you do better on the price" or "what if I buy two,then what can you do" the answer I would get should be "the price for the product is the price at one or two- this is not a pawn shop or auction house,the price is the price.

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    there is nothin wrong with haggling for a good price. and also there is nothin that says a store has to haggle. they don't gotta lower a price. i have often gone online and seen what places like tigerdirect.ca and newegg are charging for an item. then if a store is way over that price i will haggle em down to a price closer to the online prices. they don't gotta agree to a lower price...and i don't gotta buy stuff if they dont.

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The word is bagin, not barter. Barter means to trade something other than money for goods. For example, cleaning somebody's pool in exchange for them fitting a satellite dish on your house. I don't know about Best Buy, but my folks have done this before in other electronics stores. Especially when buying big ticket items. We don't always get a lower price, but we often get other stuff thrown in for free, like cables, or service contracts. I'd do this in a big name store like Walmart. Maybe ask them to knock $50 off of the price of a TV if I brought a stand, too. Stuff like that. In my home province in China, it's normal to bargain. The seller often adds maybe 30% to the ticket price knowing that you'll try to bargain them down. It's how things work. If you're wealthy or pressed for time you pay the ticket price, otherwise you try to bargain them down. It's all a question of how much your time is worth. I've bargained over vegetables worth under a $1 in the past.

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