Prince Ali! Fabulous He! Ali Ababwa...

[wagegoth]

This went beyond haggling to straight-up lying. That's where Prince Ali went too far.

There's nothing wrong with a little haggling (say, if the customer buys an entire room of furniture, you discount the delivery or toss in a coffee table or something like that), but that was complete, bold-faced lying.

If he had come back into the store and said that Everywhere Else was willing to sell him the same item for the lower price, that's a lie, but it still leaves the store the option of telling him to go buy it at Everywhere Else.

I've seen SCs come in and tell the available CSR that *pointing at a swamped CSR on the other side of the floor* had promised them a deal, the SC hoping that the busy CSR won't be asked for confirmation. My response was to immediately approach the busy CSR for confirmation. Big bummer for the SC, who is now exposed as a big liarhead and will not be welcomed back.

[Spiffy McMoron]

Any chance of this becoming a War Story?

Read the signature, and we'll talk. I'm only a click away...

[Mark Healey]

In the Middle East and in Israel, haggling is the thing. There are many shops that you can haggle with, especially privately owned. My DH does it all the time and so do my kids. I am worthless at it. when it coems time to pay, my daughter tells me to give her money and to walk away.

I fucking hate haggling. Hate it! Hate it! Hate it! It's the unspoken assumptions behind it that pisses me off. 1) I'm too stupid to know the market in which I've been working for 10 years. or 2) I'm trying to rip you off. When you start haggling, you are implying one of those. It's an insult.

[walking with scissors]

AAAAAAARRGH! Now I've got that stupid Aladdin song in my head!

Thanks a lot.

[Lace Neil Singer]

I think that the fact that this topic has caused many people to have that song in their head qualifies it for a War Story.

[dizzy_starshine]

Next time he comes in we should form a choir and sing a nice rousing verse of prince ali for him

[Becks]

GREAT idea!!!!!!!

Too bad I can't sing.

[Cosmic Cat]

Don't you know? You're supposed to have magical genie powers to grant Ali's every wish!

[Gurndigarn]

AAAAAAARRGH! Now I've got that stupid Aladdin song in my head!

It's a world of laughter
A world of tears
It's a world of hopes
And a world of fears
There's so much that we share
That it's time we're aware
It's a small world after all


You're all welcome.

[Jester]

Read my lips, and come to grips with reality! Unless you're at a yard sale, we won't be haggling with you! Say hello to a price that is the price!

Tonight, at my bar, I had an interesting exchange with a lovely older lady (not an SC) that just so lends itself to this thread. Her friend had just ordered a mojito, and I suggested a mojito with Pyrat XO Reserve Rum—pretty much some of the finest rum you will ever have, and it makes a damn good mojito. And, a Pyrat Mojito was only three dollars more than a regular one….what a deal! So….

LOL: “So, three dollars more than a regular one…how much is that?”
JESTER: That would be eleven dollars each, as the regular ones with light rum are eight dollars.”
LOL: “Eleven dollars, huh? Well, if we get two, shouldn’t you knock the price down to twenty dollars for both of them?”
JESTER: [leaning over the bar to look Lovely Older Lady in the eye]: “Darlin’, does this look like a bazaar to you?”
LOL: [laughing] “Um, no.”
JESTER: “Right. But I promise you you will love the eleven dollar mojitos.”

They paid full price.

They loved the eleven dollar mojitos.

[Pagan]

It's a world of laughter
A world of tears
It's a world of hopes
And a world of fears
There's so much that we share
That it's time we're aware
It's a small world after all


You're all welcome.

Why, why, why, oh why did you feel it necessary to inflict this upon us? Don't you love us anymore?