Comments on: Speaking Price http://equivocality.com/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Comments+on+Articles+%28RSS2%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fequivocality.com%2F2003%2F12%2F19%2Fspeaking-price%2F%23comment-&seed_title=Speaking+Price To be equivocal is to truly live. Thu, 21 Aug 2008 23:27:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: trolley http://equivocality.com/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Comments+on+Articles+%28RSS2%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fequivocality.com%2F2003%2F12%2F19%2Fspeaking-price%2F%23comment-98&seed_title=Speaking+Price#comment-98 trolley Fri, 19 Dec 2003 23:11:05 +0000 http://equivocality.com/2003/12/19/speaking-price/#comment-98 I find barganing amusing personally. When my brother and I were on a cruise, we were in Mexico at one point and were doing some shopping, but not really with the expectation of buying anything. Expressing even the slightest interest in an item would immediately get the proprietor on you trying to negotiate a price on the item. The best example was a switchblade knife, which we knew was not legal in Canada, but we were facinated by the idea. My memory is spotty, but I believe the starting price on the knife was around $45 USD, but they just wanted to sell it to a pair of teenagers <b>so</b> bad that when we kept saying that we couldn't buy it, they kept dropping the price. We never even made an offer, but finally they said we could have it for $10 USD and we accepted. I just couldn't believe that we didn't do anything and the price dropped by that much. I find barganing amusing personally. When my brother and I were on a cruise, we were in Mexico at one point and were doing some shopping, but not really with the expectation of buying anything. Expressing even the slightest interest in an item would immediately get the proprietor on you trying to negotiate a price on the item.

The best example was a switchblade knife, which we knew was not legal in Canada, but we were facinated by the idea. My memory is spotty, but I believe the starting price on the knife was around $45 USD, but they just wanted to sell it to a pair of teenagers so bad that when we kept saying that we couldn’t buy it, they kept dropping the price. We never even made an offer, but finally they said we could have it for $10 USD and we accepted. I just couldn’t believe that we didn’t do anything and the price dropped by that much.

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