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When you visit/shop at antique shops does it occur to you to negotiate a price or do you accept or decline the price tag based on your assessment of the items value?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.We stand at antiques fairs and know that just about everybody will say "... and what's your best price?", so we, errr, mark our prices a little higher than perhaps they should be to start off with. So, what's good for the goose is good for the gander and I would always try to negotiate a better price in antique shops. (Mind you we go to auctions to buy stock.... much cheaper).
No Eccles, I don't think so. Things are worth what you're prepared to pay for them and if you're happy with the item then you've not really paid over the odds. It's different if you've been 'done' and bought something from a dodgy dealer thinking you were getting something valuable which turns out to be junk.
I hate haggling - the point at which a transaction seems to be of the "overpriced so you can haggle" type, is the point at which I turn and walk away ...
... which (ironically) saved me well over £3 grand on my new car as the salesman made frantic phone calls with ever better offers - I must try the tactic more often.
... which (ironically) saved me well over £3 grand on my new car as the salesman made frantic phone calls with ever better offers - I must try the tactic more often.