Word: hagglers
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Bargain hunters are also successfully negotiating discounts at big-name chains. For example, Duke Dougherty, a rookie haggler in Williston, N.C., asked for - and received - 10% off a $4,000 John Deere lawn mower at Lowe's, even though the sale offer had expired. Dougherty, who works in the aerospace industry, told the rep he had his checkbook ready but would walk away unless he got the deal. "Hell, $400 is $400," he says. "It was kind of a trip I pulled that...
...basically a haggler by nature,” he said. And he wrote to Summers, “I am a very bad guy to cross...
...sewer grate, tantalizingly out of reach. In dramatizing her efforts to get the money back, the film shows that no one can want anything as much as a child does. No one can be so desperate, endearing, selfish. Razieh is a maven of curb-level politics, a born haggler. She'd be a demon at any yard sale...
Trapped inside this billionaire publishing baron are a multitude of people: a peasant haggler, stage director, domineering patriarch, sophisticated currency trader, military commander, politician, Hollywood mogul and unabashed publicity man. Following his train of thought is like listening to ten tape recorders, constantly switching on and off, constantly interrupting one another...
After she graduates, Hoilman says she hopes to study haggling practices in other countries. But, she admits, she will never be a good haggler herself, because "you can barely stand to see yourself haggling after you've just spent a whole summer watching hagglers...