Haggling in upper chain stores??????

The RRP that you are referring to is set by the manufacturer, and not necessarily the price that the retailer will charge, so I wouldn't go down that line of argument.

No harm in trying to haggle though, even if they throw in a mouse mat it is better than nothing! x

I always haggle if i am paying for an Item over £100

I went into ernest jones and wanted to items that would have cost £236.xx And spund a story about it being my dads b-day and liked both items they done both of them for £165.xx . They make around 140% mark up on jewlery so its easy to get the price down on that.

As for PC world you can haggle but there staff are so stupid they prob wont know what your doing lol

Oh, yes - not me personally, but I used to regularly witness my Dad haggling between Dixons and Currys (?) on the High Street of Basingstoke:

He'd go into Currys, get advice on the best thing to buy, then go to Dixons and say "I want one of these, but cheaper".

Once he'd got Dixons down to a reasonable price, he'd go back to Currys and say "well I'd like to buy it from you, but Dixons are doing it for £X."

Price beaten by Currys - job done.

technically, according to law, the price on the shelf is known as an 'invitation to treat'
what that means is when you rock up to the counter, you have to make them an offer for the item. generally we take it to mean that the price on the shelf is the price you pay. but you can always haggle for big items

as a rule though, i would NEVER buy expensive items from large high street chains. the reason is, they tend to sell at the maximum possible price (ie the RRP) nowadays, especially with the internet, there are loads of cheaper outlets. no harm in going into dixons and the like to get a feel for an item and see the range, make them an offer but remember you can probably get it a lot cheaper on the web