@dubiousgain wrote:
Haggling ...Yes... Circus barker, No. With a haggle, the buyer persues the seller.... NOT the other way around. Does the shop keeper run out in the street, and grab a pedestrian and say: "Hey, I noticed you glanced in the store window at those socks" ?? AB---surd.
Good grief, yes - in fact, it's almost worldwide behaviour. In Australia I see shop employees in doorways advertising their wares and inviting you in, like you, yourself - it's an old sales trick. In England, I've had booth owners come around their counter and greet me and tell me about the deal they can make me. Here in the US, I've had small merchants tell me that, for me, I get a deal. I do a lot of buying for my own business and I travel a lot.
So what happens when you throw your hook into the water and the fish don't bite? Have you groveled to the fish? Have the fish rejected you? Send the person an offer - if they want it, they'll take it. If not, you haven't 'lost', you're not left with dirt on your knees and tears in your eyes. You just move on - making anything more of it is what's really absurd.
“The illegal we do immediately, the unconstitutional takes a little longer.” - Henry Kissinger
"Wherever law ends, tyranny begins" -John Locke
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