Antiques Markets

[EcclesCake]

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?

[Buenchico]

I don't buy many antiques but on the rare occasions that I do (or if I'm in a secondhand book shop), I'd normally ask for the 'trade price'.

[Islay]

haggle all the time

[ethandron]

I bought a couple of things years ago and it never occurred to me to haggle, I just paid the ticket price.
If I was to go to one of these markets these days though, after watching so many programmes on tv and seeing how it's done, I'd definitely haggle.

[Captain2]

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).

[EcclesCake]

That is what has got me thinking I've been a mug Eth. Trouble is if I find the ticket price acceptable I see no need to haggle......another of my daft bat moments perhaps.

[ethandron]

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.

[EcclesCake]

Ahh, you remember my post about how I acquired Mr Cake......that was definitely a dodgy dealer and I haven't spoken to them since ;-)

[ethandron]

Aaaw, poor Mr. Cake...

[sunny-dave]

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.

[ummmm]

I don't haggle but my OH will haggle over anything.

[Hopkirk]

If you have never seen this haggling scene from Monty Python's "Life of Brian", it's worth a watch.


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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u75XQdTxZRc