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Originally Posted by Ugly Bastard
A friend of mine once told me that everything in life is for sale and everything is negotiable. Once you internalize that you realize it's basically true.
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I was in Afghanistan, and they would have people come on base to sell shit. If you didn't haggle the shit out of them, they would not have any respect for you (or so I heard). I'm guessing it's like this in the countries that actually worry about survival, not in Europe or America. I think it's some kind of faux pas to haggle here.
But because of that, we're all out of practice. America is probably easier to negotiate in because nobody knows what the fuck they're doing and/or don't have the balls to really challenge the other person.
Obviously not talking higher level business deals. Just more the everyday stuff.
And I got my ass handed to me in Afghanistan. I was shopping with a girl that was pretty good at it. She would sit down with the guy for about half an hour and come away paying about 25% of what he originally wanted. I, however, asked him the price of what I was getting. He told me like $40. I said "can you lower it?" He said "No, that's almost what I paid. If I lower it, I'll lose money." So I said Ok, I'll take it. She started laughing.