Fireballs... about bartering

[Pompal 09.]

In business, everything is negotiable. I absolutely hate to shop, especially for clothes, so when I do, I tend to buy several pairs of pants, several shirts, etc. On several occasions, I've been able to get the store (used to be May Company & JCPenney, now usually just JCPenney) to throw in a shirt or a pair of pants or a belt for free. When you are plunking down a few hundred dollars or more, they often are amenable to some kind of a deal. Yes, the store clerk will usually have to ask their sales manager to okay the transaction.

However, I've never tried this in some of the "bargain basement" stores like Ross, TJ Maxx, etc. So far, on none of the few occasions that I've used these stores have I tried bargaining because I didn't feel as though I had purchased enough to ask for a discount.

I have no personal knowledge of the upscale stores since the few times I did walk into a Nordstrom's or whatever, I've promptly left after seeing the (what I believe are) insane prices.

In business, everything is negotiable.

 

[eastwoods]

Bargaining can most assuredly occur in the U.S.
Even at retail chain stores.

It's best to attempt it with the store's manager than one of the clerks.

 

[jasneskis]

Sampson for once you are lying by saying you were bartering at K Mart, perhaps you meant "buttering" the sales girl
And of course those darn Car Dealers in USA thats the ultimate bartering. These guys will sell even their wives if they have to sell the car
ANd yes Mexico like other "third world" countries have batering more common than USA for all items across the board.

 

[jeremy.isley]

Lot of folks barter, even in the States...I know I have done it even in a frickin' K-Mart, and have seen people doing it in furniture stores...of course we all do it with cars.

 

[theymademedoit]

With respect to TJ chicas, if they see you as a regular or you can get her to like you, if you make her smile and she is attracted to you she is much more willing to quote you a lower price in the first place. If she quotes you $100 she may not like you and does not want to go upstairs with you so the best thing to do in MOST cases is move on to another chica, there are hundreds and what one chica will not do another one will be more than willing and if you are lucky for less $$

 

[Akon Lova]

Yeah I did say something like that, but not only newbies pay the first price quoted, but also many seasoned vets also that the first price too, although they have sense enough to just go to another chica when she qoutes $100 dollars.
I don't know if it will end the practice if they keep doing that?

But yes I find 80% of the chicas will bargain their price down. The other 20% won't, and they probably didn't want to go upstairs anyway, and maybe give you bad service if you took them up? The chicas don't seem to mind if you ask for a lower price, as long as it's not too low that you insult them.

In Tijuana I also find while almost all places will bargain they all seem to have the same bottom line price they will accept. For example I was trying to buy a purse as a present my daughter wanted, all the stores wanted $50 or $60 dollars, but nobody would go under $30 dollars, but it seems like 90% went down to $30 dollars, but won't go down below cost, even if they are hurting like they are all claiming.

 

[Nawwhhs]

Fireballs, am sure I read the subject here in one of the threads, about how newbies would pay up front the first price quoted to them by a hooker, without even trying to barter.
I think you said or one of the guys that if that keeps up it would end bartering as a tradition and means to make a healthy transaction with the ho's.

Let me tell you I just returned from vacations at Play del Carmen at the Mexican Riviera close to Cancun (for the benefir of those that don't know the location).
The wife and me, went to Playa del Carmen town to visit a street called 5a Avenida, a pedestrian street with all kinds of shops, clubs, restaurants and stores.
Let me tell you that not a single little shop, street vendor, silver vendors, souvenir vendro or flea market corner type store would barter.
Zero, nada, nothing.
Hard rate, no discount for 2 o 3 items... zip.
Being Mexicans we are used to barter at these type of tourist places and speaking Spanish of course is on our side.
Spanish or no Spanish, no bartering at all no where.

We talked to a couple of locals, wondering why this was happening and turns out there is a reason: Europeans and American tourists not accustomed to bartering, that would pay the first price quoted to them.
They totally eradicated a Mexican tradition.

Hope it doesn't happen over there at TJ with the ho's and the newbies, make bartering become extinct.