Have you ever haggled at a fish store?

[pharmaecopia]

I've haggled in the past if I'm buying a large number of fish. One or two isn't really worth it. But a cash deal might work instead. It also can help knowing the local market. Last time I did this I knew where the store had gotten their fish and roughly what they would have paid, makes it easier to haggle that way so everybody leaves happy.

Myself I've been on the other side of it as well, people haggling with me. It can get frustrating at times though as the stuff people try to haggle on isn't generally the stuff with large markups to begin with. The larger higher priced fish don't usually have anywhere near as much markup as the smaller fish.

 

[Ptrick125]

Why haven't I thought of this! I don't recall ever doing this at a LFS. I just tell myself that it costs too much and I don't buy it.


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[Z Trip]

If no price in on the tank, I make an offer. If they say no, i walk away. Easy. Normally I pay asking price.

 

[dogofwar]

Pet Peeve: stores that post their prices on tanks.

Matt

If no price in on the tank, I make an offer. If they say no, i walk away. Easy. Normally I pay asking price.

 

[houie925]

I don't haggle. If it's somthing I want I buy it. If I don't like the price I don't buy it. I do agree with so many Mom & Pop stores going out of bussiness I will pay a little more to try and throw bussiness there way. A few years ago my LFS (about a mile from my house) closed shortly after a Pet chain store opened a few miles away. Because of that I lost a great place to get my supplies as he would order whatever I needed and stocked some stuff I used to buy all the time so I could get it easly, a chain store isn't doing that for me.

If it's something you want but you don't like the price making an offer/haggling gives the seller the opportunity to decide between a larger potential profit and a smaller immediate profit. Either the buyer and seller reach an agreeable price or there is no sale and nobody loses anything.

 

[Z Trip]

Pet Peeve: stores that post their prices on tanks.

Matt

+1, or they have a fish in the tank that they don't know what it is.

 

[krichardson]

My favorite is when they admit to not knowing what a particular fish is but have no problem slapping a high price on said fish.

 

[dxdx]

If it's something you want but you don't like the price making an offer/haggling gives the seller the opportunity to decide between a larger potential profit and a smaller immediate profit. Either the buyer and seller reach an agreeable price or there is no sale and nobody loses anything.

that's not necessarily true. If there's no sale because you're haggling and won't pay the price they're asking, a small mom and pop store could lose their whole business (if enough people did this). These small store owners aren't driving Ferraris and making it rain at the strip club. I'll pay full price to my LFS because I'd rather go there than a chain store...

 

[GeriJo]

Only when I am spending $100 or more in their store.

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[SePPii]

If it is over priced, yes.


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