IP 0 Posted September 30, 2003 Share Posted September 30, 2003 I was in Akihabara the other day and looking at the top end notebooks. There was one there for about 330,000 yen, and I asked them if they were able to give a discount. They were hissing and doing all the muzukashiis, so I went away for a few minutes and went back. I told the guy that the same machine over the road was 280,000 yen (not true) - I was shocked when the guy did a bit more of hissing in his breath and said OK, I could have it for 28 man. Shocking the way they will come down in price so much so easily. Anyone else had a similar experience? Link to post Share on other sites
Ocean11 0 Posted September 30, 2003 Share Posted September 30, 2003 I've had the experience where I quote a price from another shop, whether existent or not, and without any inhaling at all, they say "OK, why don't you go buy it from that shop then?" Link to post Share on other sites
fantastic 0 Posted September 30, 2003 Share Posted September 30, 2003 Definitely sounds worth a try though. Link to post Share on other sites
grungy-gonads 54 Posted September 30, 2003 Share Posted September 30, 2003 I always find it really amusing the way they get their calculators out and press about 500 buttons before giving you their "best price". Link to post Share on other sites
MrBing 0 Posted September 30, 2003 Share Posted September 30, 2003 Is there any meaning to that at all or is it just for show? Link to post Share on other sites
amandanism 0 Posted October 1, 2003 Share Posted October 1, 2003 Quote: Originally posted by Ocean11: I've had the experience where I quote a price from another shop, whether existent or not, and without any inhaling at all, they say "OK, why don't you go buy it from that shop then?" shop assistants of electronic stores in singapore always say this. Link to post Share on other sites
jared 0 Posted October 1, 2003 Share Posted October 1, 2003 thats you cue to say - well Sam, (secretly read from name badge) I just wanted to see if you could do any better than them but since you can't... If you tell A that you want it for the same price as B then they know your fibbing otherwise you would just buy it from B. You have to let A know they have to better then B for you to buy it. This all got a little complicated when shopping for the wife's skis when we had a good deal for skis in one shop and a good deal on bindings in another shop - if purchaced in one shop you get free binding mounting if not you have to pay for it. With mounting it still ended up cheaper to buy seperately. That and we wanted to buy as little as possible from the man that suggested that the crappiest bindings in the shop might be "more comfortable for woman" than the best bindings in the shop which is what we were after. Link to post Share on other sites
JonnyPanic 0 Posted October 1, 2003 Share Posted October 1, 2003 I bought a home theater speaker set that said "reduced to 29,800" yen on it. I simply asked them if they could come down in price, and he took 3000 yen off almost instantly. Hell yeah, I always try to get cash off. Link to post Share on other sites
scouser 4 Posted October 2, 2003 Share Posted October 2, 2003 Definitely worth a go - they're at each others throats these eleccy shops now (they are in our region anyway - always got their competitions chirashi outside saying they'll beat whatever prices the other has). Link to post Share on other sites
BagOfCrisps 24 Posted October 2, 2003 Share Posted October 2, 2003 I wish shops here were a bit more open to haggling. That would make things more fun, and cheaper. I don't suppose it fits in well with the ripoff image the country is trying to foster though Link to post Share on other sites
jared 0 Posted October 2, 2003 Share Posted October 2, 2003 At home we generally get something off for asking, usually 10%ish (in Dunedin anyway). One day I was spending rather alot on a spyder top and thought that it might be a good idea to ask the (scottish) woman at the counter for a discount. Should have seen her go, apparantly where she is from it is rather rude to ask for a discount and even though she was now in NZ the scottish rules still applied in her shop. I laughed at her and told her she wasnt in scotland now and got the top anyway. Link to post Share on other sites
HotMagma 0 Posted October 3, 2003 Share Posted October 3, 2003 In those leccy shops, them guys with their calculators - are they just doing lots of that for show or what? Once when I asked a guy, he looked at a small code written on the price tag thing, seemed to have some meaning to him. Lots of times they seem to be messing about with their cals for ages before giving you their verdict. Link to post Share on other sites
oblivion 5 Posted October 4, 2003 Share Posted October 4, 2003 OK so who has seen the biggest quick % drop in price then. I got someone down from 200,000 yen to 160,000 yen last year. It took 5 minutes. Link to post Share on other sites
grungy-gonads 54 Posted October 5, 2003 Share Posted October 5, 2003 I brought my tv package down by nearly 100,000 yen. Beat that one! Link to post Share on other sites
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