Do You Routinely Haggle?

The relationships you build are everything. One larger dealer friend of mine (6 figure+ coins in his inventory)has all of his coins priced at shows. They are priced retail to high retail. I pick out the few coins I'm interested in and ask him what's "my" price? He smiles looks them over and the price usually drops pretty drastically from where it started.

I actually ran into a friend at one show and we got to talking. He told me about this coin he wanted at that dealers table, but the price was too high. I asked him if he made an offer and he said he just walked away. I walked him over to the table and introduced him as a friend and told him what coin he wanted and what he wanted to spend. He left with the coin at a good price.

I have no anxieties over social interactions though and being in sales and now running a restaurant dealing with distributors daily, it's second nature to haggle.

I too haggle at Best Buy Dave...id love to know how much money exactly I've saved over the years haggling,it's amazing just how much wiggle room there is everywhere-I routinely haggle with the biggest scammers out there att also

Negotiating prices is haggling.

"I like paying as much as possible for things"

Said NO one, ever!!

I read it as you saying what you do and do not do when you haggle (negotiate).

That's already quite tricky business, as we may know. Just look at any given season of 'guess the price' to know that. As said: coin prices are very subjective prices.

As said, my local coin shops know I always look for a good package deal, so I recently got a free silver coin (US commemorative dollar) with a set of coins I bought. Good deal for us all, I'd say, as it means that he got a big and expensive set sold and I got a good feeling and will return again. As long as you accept the rules of the game, haggling can be great.


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You should really come to Norway and talk with people who shop at supermarkets called ICA and MENY. There you can buy the exact same stuff as in cheaper supermarkets (as Norway has a monopoly or duopoly on about 90% of groceries), but these people are willing to pay up to 50% extra for them, just because it's presented in a nicer way and because these supermarkets convince people they sell the exact same stuff of better quality (Really, think about it. Would you pay 50% more for a bottle of Coca Cola if someone told you it's of better quality than the bottle of Coca Cola, produced in the same factory and batch, sold at the cheap store next door?).

I'm really bad at being Norwegian.

The last few times I was in coin shops other customers were also there, either selling or buying, and they did a little haggling, I continued shopping as an excuse to eavesdrop, just to see how it's done.

That is certainly the truth.