Great Best Places To Haggle Hunt

MFunnell

You should be able to get 30% off anything in the self- service sections (i.e., when you look up the code and collect the box yourself) of IKEA if the packaging is damaged.

We took something back we had opened that was badly labelled on the shelf and they refused to exchange it, insisting that they would have to take 30% of the price because they would not be able to sell it opened.

We then went to get what we originally wanted and the only one left had been opened. It was a bit of a pain as we were sent from pillar to post, but there was no debating the discount: they offered 30% straight away. They did try to insist that it would have to be taken and made up in 'Discount Corner' or whatever they call it, but just stand your ground. Try to ensure that all the bits are in the box as they may try to insist it is 'sold as seen'.

Obviously, it was still a pain for us because we had already lost out, but I'll bear it in mind in future.

muddyfox470

Smiley_Mum wrote:

Tesco

Not exactly haggling, but a bargain all the same.

Just came back from Tescos, tried to swing it getting two bottles of Jacob Creek wine for £8 (price £4.44 a bottle), no can do they said, adamant, tried for a good 10 minutes but they said they were struggling to make a profit as it was. Can you believe it. 88p discount and a no can do, can you believe it Not to be outdone, I recalled a Tesco £5 voucher languishing in my purse which they gave me when a juice carton which was precariously perched on a shelf fell on me and burst open, all over my super expensive £3 top notch Matalan jeans. Fiver was compensation when I complained, stains came out first wash. Got bottle of wine after all and just paid 50p for my shop. Result.

Looks like I'll have to find some more cartons of precariously perched juice.
Thanks for this site, it's brilliant. Made my day.

Saved myself a fortune. Thanks everyone.

Just talking about wine (I know this is deviating from the subject - sorry Martin), the Marks and Spencer in Durham has a great wine section in which it sells some really good wine at £3-£4; they are mostly whites, but are very good value for the money. Last term they had the Vina Ulmo reduced to £2.89 and it was reviewed as the best white that can be had for less than £4. Only problem is that i managed to buy 6 bottles last time; oops - not so money saving

Waitrose also had a silver awarded wine for £3.74 iirc from £4.99 in one of its offers!

Good Wine, Great Prices, beats the stuff that Iceland tries to flog for 3 for £10. The hting is that the majority of people associate Marks with high prices!

Cheers :beer:

Ian

gentlepurr

hi.

specsavers.

i haggled when the cost of my buy one get one free specs came to £400, saying i could get the best designer frames & my prescription lenses ffor £300 from an independant optition down the road, so therefore the second pair wasn't free cos i was paying £100 over the odds. they reduced price to £300 straight away.

gamestation.

haggled over the price of a second hand xbox controller, got price down from £5.99 to £4.00, played on the sympathy vote of one child being laeft out if i couldn't get an extra controller, and said it was my sons pocket money and that was all he'd got.

hth

xx

galileo

If you order anything from Dell computers, ring up and say you want to cancel once the goods have arrived - you are entitled to do this under the terms of the contract and under the Distance Selling Regulations. They will offer a discount.

I received £30 off my £640 laptop - other on this site have achieved more. I probably could have pushed them for more too, only I was so bowled over by the ease with which they offered the discount it clouded my judgment!

It really is that simple!

Busybody

:T I have haggled a lot over the years its no use if you are having an off day and feeling feeble! but in that case you are better staying at home anyway.
Got money off some lovely boots at TKMaxx the other week because a couple of stitches had come undone, at first she said no as they were already cheap but then gave me 10% off.

Edna_Bucket_2

galileo wrote:

If you order anything from Dell computers, ring up and say you want to cancel once the goods have arrived - you are entitled to do this under the terms of the contract and under the Distance Selling Regulations. They will offer a discount.

I received £30 off my £640 laptop - other on this site have achieved more. I probably could have pushed them for more too, only I was so bowled over by the ease with which they offered the discount it clouded my judgment!

It really is that simple!

Right - so your brilliant advice on haggling is to tell lies then?

Sorry - but I don't think that is a particular credit to the site if that is what you are saying.

Aside from that I stick to my earlier point (which I accept will not earn me plaudits around here) - with some exceptions, we are still hearing about a lot of discounts on damaged goods.

claireyfairy_2

I was buying trainers in Schuh. The customer in front of me got 10% discount as she had a student card. i asked if I could have 10% discount. The salesman asked if I was a student, I replied 'no, but I can no more afford shoes than a student!' He gave me 10% off! If you don't try you don't get!

witchhazel

Cotswold outdoor offer 10% to students and other groups such as Ramblers !!!!!!, scouts etc just tell them you are a member (sorry more fibs).
Thomas Cook will usually match or better by 50p exchange rates if you ask. You need to know what's being offered elsewhere (they ususally do).

Discogod

witchhazel wrote:

Cotswold outdoor offer 10% to students and other groups such as Ramblers !!!!!!, scouts etc just tell them you are a member (sorry more fibs).
Thomas Cook will usually match or better by 50p exchange rates if you ask. You need to know what's being offered elsewhere (they ususally do).

how about commision & compared to online? I'm thinking about travelex here...

FF99

In my opinion Dixons deserve whatever one can throw at them, given the preposterous prices that they charge. However, sometimes there is a reason to buy instore on account of a particular promotion or offer.

In addition, this technique would probably work at other electrical retailers, in the present competitive environment.

Having bought something at Dixons yesterday, I was met with the usual compulsive attempt to sell an extended warranty. It got to the stage where they were prepared to actually thorw in quite an expensive piece of kit (worth more than the cost of the warranty !) if I bought a warranty also.

If you can get to that point, haggle for all you are worth on the basis that you are willing to buy the most expensive warranty they can offer and then ...

Exercise your statutory right to cancel the warranty and get a full refund of the cost of the warranty within the 45 day cooling off period, which most definitely does apply to all such warranties as is clear from the blurb that I was given yesterday by Dixons.

It should be a foolproof way of getting the best instore price.

I am wondering - as I write this - whether this would not also work when ordering from the likes of Dell for telephone orders.