It also depends on how we value our time. When shopping, I prefer to spend as little time as possible in the act. I would rather be doing something else with my time than haggling. Almost anything else. So someone spends 10 minutes to save a few dollars or even 20 dollars. May be OK for some, not for me. For some its a game, for me its a waste of time and demeaning to all concerned. arthur
________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Harry Pollard Sent: Mon 3/24/2008 7:30 PM To: 'Michael Gurstein'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Futurework] FW: [TriumphOfContent] At Megastores,Hagglers Find Prices Are Flexible Come now, gentlemen, there is nothing wrong with bargaining. I recall that about 25 years ago I had taken an English professorial friend into Tijuana in Mexico. He liked a sport coat and was told the price was $25. He was about to buy it when I intervened, said the price was too high and began to walk out of the shop. After some haggling my friend got the coat for $5. It was a voluntary agreement between buyer and seller. Commercial concerns haggle all the time in the real world. Of course the rich don't care to haggle. Maybe the middle class think it's beneath them to haggle thereby taking on to themselves a veneer of "richness". Of course in Europe practically every retail price is fixed. The peons have gotten used to it and pay up without a murmur. Harry ****************************** Harry Pollard Henry George School of Los Angeles Box 655 Tujunga CA 91042 (818) 352-4141 ****************************** /listinfo/futurework <http://fes.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework>
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