Help with a haggle

MaximumFish

Hey all,

We really need a new fridge freezer and have our hearts set on an American style with the ol' water and ice dispenser.

Comet have a nice Samsung one, reduced to £699, which we were really hoping to get down to around the £550-£600 mark. We went in the other day, being first time hagglers, and tried the trick of saying we wanted the extended warranty (fully planning to cancel it later), which brought the price down by £50 and half price delivery. Unfortunately, still over our price range. Further attempts to bring it down fell on deaf ears so we left empty handed.

We still really want the fridge though, so what do we do next? There are two other Comet stores 25 miles away, so do we try our luck there or go back to the local one and say something along the lines of "we've been over our finances and the absolute most we can afford, with the warranty, is £xyz"?

Any advice much appreciated!

Thanks,

Max

zenseeker

You need to play two stores off of each other, ideally they should be close to each other so that you can go back and forth and tell one that you were offered it for £XX amount, so can they beat that...then go back with their counter offer...etc etc....can take a while but I saved £150 on a TV doing that a couple of years back.

Ms_Chocaholic

Have you looked at Comet online to check their prices

There's varous Samsung ones, here's one with a water machine and ice dispenser for £549

http://www.comet.co.uk/shopcomet/product/453587/SAMSUNG-RSA1DHMH

Failing that, have you looked online at any other stores

When I bought a TV earlier in the year, it was priced at £999 in Comet, Currys and the like but got the exact same set online for £609 so you can sure make savings

MaximumFish

zenseeker wrote: »

You need to play two stores off of each other, ideally they should be close to each other so that you can go back and forth and tell one that you were offered it for £XX amount, so can they beat that...then go back with their counter offer...etc etc....can take a while but I saved £150 on a TV doing that a couple of years back.

Hmm, we tried in the Comet that was practically next door and the assistant manager was insistant that they were no longer allowed to haggle. The most she would do was half price delivery.

Ms_Chocaholic wrote: »

Have you looked at Comet online to check their prices

There's varous Samsung ones, here's one with a water machine and ice dispenser for £549

http://www.comet.co.uk/shopcomet/product/453587/SAMSUNG-RSA1DHMH

Failing that, have you looked online at any other stores

When I bought a TV earlier in the year, it was priced at £999 in Comet, Currys and the like but got the exact same set online for £609 so you can sure make savings

Ah, yeah, the one we were looking at is this one: http://www.comet.co.uk/shopcomet/product/402915/SAMSUNG-RSH1DBRS

The more freezer capacity the better, really.

zenseeker

MaximumFish wrote: »

Hmm, we tried in the Comet that was practically next door and the assistant manager was insistant that they were no longer allowed to haggle. The most she would do was half price delivery.

she would say that because she doesn't want to lose money, it's up to you to have the bottle to push the issue.

istarimoneta

Ok, so it's New Years Eve and I had nothing better to do so did a quick t'internet search and found that appliancecity.com have the one you want for £629 with free standard delivery.

Hope this helps and good luck in your search!

MaximumFish

Yeah we've just found the silver version (really don't care about colour) for £580. That's much more like it!

zenseeker

Here are the online options that I can see:

http://www.google.co.uk/products?q=SAMSUNG+RSH1DBRS&btnG=Search+Products&price2=700.00&scoring=p

MaximumFish

Much thanks for the help everyone. We got it from 365electrical in the end for £579.

Happy new year to you all!

Ms_Chocaholic

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