I, too, hate haggling over

Miss Mollee — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 12:41:53 -0500

I, too, hate haggling over price. When my sister and I were in Namibia, that's how you buy everything so we would try to come up with an idea of how much we were willing to pay for something and then shoot below that to start the buying process.

My sister got really good at haggling and would almost always get what she wanted (after awhile I just let her do my haggling for me). She wasn't afraid to laugh at their prices and walk away which worked almost every time. She also developed a neat trick of telling vendors that she knew she could get a better price in a nearby town which would usually convince them to drop their own price.

In Namibia the vendors tended to always dress shabby which we grew to learn was a trick to get tourists to think that their livelihoods depended on them selling you something. They knew you would find it harder to haggle if you thought they weren't going to eat that night. Truth was, they did just fine with their business. Many of them had numerous cell phones to prove it.

Good luck with your haggling. It's a good skill to have and if the economy continues in its general downward direction, who knows if it might come in handy when you get back to the states!

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Tom Schardin — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 11:06:09 -0500

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I, too, hate haggling over

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