I was driving my car in the morning, and I heard that on ABC Radio National.
http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/lifematters/eve…
Worth listening to, experienced ozbargainers need not to listen, it is really for the newbies.
Haggling 101
yoyo on 04/04/2014 - 12:53
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I know of someone who haggles at….Woollies….on grocery items!!!! She is a medico with an established practice so she definitely isn't hard on money.
Not sure if her being half Indian and half Jewish has to do anything with it. Surely not?
lol need more details… what does she haggle on, and how? I suspect it's an exaggeration unless you actually know her and she's told you about this directly.
I can imagine some people 'haggling' on items they find in a supermarket that are near or at their best before dates, but not regular shelf items. They'd be laughed out the store lol.
I am trying not to be too obvious with whom I am referring to because there really aren't that many half Jewish half Indian around.
She, and her staff, walked into Woollies as they were short on supplies for the practice, and when she began haggling on several items in her basket, her staff cringed. The poor check out girl also wasn't sure if she was being pranked or not. And even though she was rebuffed on each item, she still tried to haggle down the price of the final invoice.
Her staff no longer accompanies her - she either shops by herself or they shop for her.
Oh, and karma has a way of making sure things are evened up - she hates it when her patients haggle with her, and yet for some reason, this particular practice gets an unusually high amount of patients that like to haggle.
PS: The items she haggled on were toothpaste, floss, and tooth brushes.
Sure.