Fixed rate or bargaining?

@eshaan (6188)
India
August 13, 2007 7:18am CST
Friends, how are the shops at your country? Are they fixed rate shop or you do bargaining while purchasing anything.In India we still have many bargaining shops,specially for purchasing clothes. There are both type of shops, which do you prefer? And what is the percentage of bargaining if you do it?
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@rohit55_56 (2297)
• India
13 Aug 07
in my country shopkeeper tell the rate 20% more then the price....if people want to take it in less price........then it will give it in the 10% less ....
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@eshaan (6188)
• India
13 Aug 07
Yes! the same is here, Indain? This is the case in India. Actually people are so much used to that reduction in price that even the fixed rate shops apply the same scheme,they give you 10% discount, but they have already raised it,but its just for customer satisfaction.
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@lkbooi (16070)
• Malaysia
17 Aug 07
Here in my country we still have lots of shops that we ought to bargain when purchasing something. I would like to share with you how we could get the stuff with the reasonable price. Here in my place before we buy the stuff we usually need to visit at least three shops to get the quotations. After comparing the prices we then buy the stuff with most the reasonable price. In this way, we normally could get things with lower prices compared to those in the fixed rate shops.
@eshaan (6188)
• India
17 Aug 07
yes, same is the situation in India.
@abroji (3247)
• India
13 Aug 07
Hello eshaan, in Kerala no regular shops allow bargaining and the people also are not much keen on bargaining. Bargaining is allowed in seasonal temperory sales known as discount sales. Otherwise in regular shops no bargaining is entertained. In ever yshop packed items were sold at MRP. But the cooperative sector and some consumer societies started several stores which allow discount and hence many other stores were constrained to allow discount, but no bargaining. Here is a vast network of 'Margin Free Stores' which offer good discount. So are the govt. owned Neethi, Supplyco and Triveni stores. We are a little different from other parts of the country.
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@rb200406 (1824)
• India
14 Aug 07
I mostly go to the fixed rate shop as i am not that comfortable in bargaining.Also i feel qualitywise they have better goods & chances of being getting chetaed reduces.I do bargain but very less.I can't do it actually.
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@eshaan (6188)
• India
14 Aug 07
Same is with me , i try but if the shopkeeper says a single word i give up that is my nature.