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For those that mention no one haggles anymore heres my expert opinion on it
I don't want to throw a number out there that you may take offense to. I don't want to sit there and haggle back and forth with you. I just don't want to waste the time doing it. Chances are you won't come down enough to make me feel like I got a good deal and if you did you may feel like you kind of got jipped in the deal and I don't want that either. I like it when both parties feel they got a fair deal. But when many of the prices there (That I saw today) where above retail anyways how far down are you really going to come? If your ok with selling something for less why not just put that price on it. The next person to walk up and grab it to look may just buy it instead of putting it down thinking they can just get it cheaper somewhere else. Plus people may spread the word about the great prices at your table and bring more business your way.
Example. I was looking at a grand power x-caliber at a table because I'd never seen one in person but I love grand power pistols and own 1 already. The guy says to me "you look like you know what that is" I told him I did and I was surprised to see one as most people don't even know about them. He tells me he's surprised it's still there. He had it listed for 800 something. I didn't look real hard cause I know I could get that gun shipped to my ffl and take it home for $750 total. For all know he had it listed for $850. I stopped looking whwn i saw the 8. I'm not going to haggle him down over $50-100 his asking price. I feel like if I had something for sale and someone offered me less than $100 my asking price that he's low balling me. Obviously there are exceptions. If what your selling is $1,000+ then it may be more acceptable to offer $100 less...anyways I don't want to low ball someone so I just put it down and walked away. Sorry. That's just my take on it.
I hear you for sure. My only take on it is people will ask "what's your best price?" If I respond with half the posted price they want to haggle down from there and if I ask them what's their best offer they usually won't respond. It's a game and I don't mind playing it because one, I am trying to get rid of things before the commie take over and I like being around people so I stay in the game, two I encounter a lot of old time friends and also Veterans that might need to know where to go for help with service related problems. We each get a different meal at the same banquet.