But the shops have ways of getting their revenge. If anybody starts haggling with me after I have done a job they quickly find that I am far too busy to come out to them in the future.
I remember some bloke came into Dixons once and asked me if I could do a discount if he bought 10 Ipods. My reply was no chance he said well then you have just lost a big sale. I said I know for a fact I can sell those ten Ipods in the next half an hour at the full price. This was at Christmas when Ipods have been going out the shop quicker than we were getting them in.
I am all for phoning round the best prices and when I get my service quotes I will get different quotes but I wouldn't have the brass neck to phone up and say "Oi its only an oil change do it for £80 guezzer".
In fact I did the very same when I bought my car:-
Stockport dealer who knew I was very interested in buying a car and I had just missed out on the scrappage scheme. How much can do you the Panda for £7795 (or some similar high figure, may have been £7100) sir. I didn't before to argue and phoned a dealer in Birmingham - how much for the Panda? £6100, can you drop it off in Manchester? Yes sir.
The Stockport dealer lost the sale - a week later they had lowered the price to £6k.
I just didn't want to play the stupid haggeling game and just shopped around using prices on other UK dealers websites. The only downside is I have a Birmingham number plate.
Woffle - sorry.
Last edited by: RattleandSmoke on Mon 20 Dec 10 at 23:47
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