We do not haggle - stop it!

[Sakka]

Where I used to live and work was a rather affluent neighborhood, however, a decent number of the people there were living well above their income levels (debt to the shoulders, leased luxury car, etc), and thus would be dead cheap about anything that wasn't your normal conspicuous consumption.

For a time, one of my uncles used to work for a moving company as one of the guys who would go in, pack everything up, put it on the truck, take it to the new place, unload it all, etc.
He would always talk about how so many of the big/expensive houses would barely have any furniture or other stuff in them. One house, the crew arrived and thought that they would need another truck, maybe two, to load everything up. Turned out everything in the house took up 3/4 of the truck they had brought. And they had brought one of the smaller trucks.
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*edited to add*

A year or two back, had some foreign students in the computer shop needing some computer repair work done. While getting the info and doing a rough estimate for how much it would be, they would keep saying 'No no no, that too much. We pay (significantly lower amount)'

Cast:
Haggler (young foreign national couple, very well dressed.)
Computer tech
Computer boss


Computer Tech and Haggler are at the service counter quickly looking over the computer and getting a rough estimate of what needs to be done, how much it would be, etc. Computer boss is off to one side watching. (While the local college has an international student program, we don't get many machines in that are in a foreign language. Always interesting to see the differences.)

Tech: Okay then, (details of work) and it will be (amount) plus tax.
Haggler: no no no, that too much. We pay (slightly less then half the shop rate).
T: (starts going over the details and a breakdown of how it adds up)
H: *interrupting* No no no, we pay (slightly less than half the shop rate)
T: The shop rate is ($rate/hr) and what you are wanting done will be two billable hours.
H: *interrupting* No no no, we pay (slightly less than half the shop rate.)
T:

*round and round it goes, where's the booze? I am going to need a drink, or three.*

Computer boss is looking amused with the proceedings until the third or fourth iteration where he finally interupts the conversation.

CB: The work will cost you (amount), you can either accept that or you are welcome to go elsewhere.
H: *has a stunned expression for a couple seconds before gathering their computer and power cable* You too expensive and probably do shoddy work.

Computer boss and tech spent the rest of the day going 'No no no, that too expensive/wrong/etc. It (something unrealistic) instead.'

The part that got me was they were dressed to the nines, very high quality fabrics/clothing/accessories, etc.

[Nemesis44UK]

We get these idiots at the place I work. Whenever we have an inkling that someone's going to be difficult, we take extra pictures, and mark parts with a UV ink pen so that they can't return their broken crap for our working stuff, and any damage they do we can prove was on their end, not ours.

That is a fabulous idea! I am definitely going to do that. Oh, and send it recorded delivery so that I have proof it is delivered.

I agree with trying to get a deal, if you sniff one going. However, I am not trying to play "hard-to-get -" I cannot go lower, because we don't mark up prices on spare parts by much, my boss won't let me cut the margins and I told you that umpteen times!

[Andara Bledin]

That is a fabulous idea! I am definitely going to do that. Oh, and send it recorded delivery so that I have proof it is delivered.

It's best to always get proof of delivery, unless it's something so negligible that you don't care if you pay out of pocket to refund/replace.

We actually had some doorknob leave us bad Feedback because the item we sent was broken. You know, just like the pictures of it showed - a broken unit we sold for parts. The pictures clearly show a chunk of one side smashed off, but we failed to actually use the word "broken" in the listing, despite it clearly being broken and the title and description saying it was for parts only.

Then he got all shirty when we contacted him, with our guy being rather less diplomatic than he should have been, and the doorknob saying that "if we want honor we should find a Klingon." What a nutjob.

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