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In the News (Fri 25 Dec 09)

  
  haggle - Definitions from Dictionary.com
Suffolk first died, and York, all haggled o'er, Comes to him, where in gore he lay insteeped.
To be difficult in bargaining; to stick at small matters; to chaffer; to higgle.
Royalty and science never haggled about the value of blood.
dictionary.reference.com /browse/haggle   (386 words)

  
  Special Report: How to haggle down home and car prices
You are a power negotiator, he says, if you get the deal that you want and the other person believes that he or she has won the negotiation.
Anyone who has haggled with a car salesperson is familiar with this tactic: You arrive at a price, then the salesperson has to get the sales manager's approval.
The wife can say she loves the house, but apologetically explains to the real estate agent that her husband won't budge unless the price is reduced.
www.bankrate.com /brm/news/special/19991001.asp   (1247 words)

  
 How to Haggle - wikiHow
Your goal is to haggle your way to a good deal--the closer to your "great deal" price, the better.
Be prepared to walk away Haggling is all about knowing how long to stick it out to be satisfied and when you need to walk away to look somewhere else for a better price.
If you are haggling in a particular shop where the sales person's first language is not English, it may be easier to get a good deal if you haggle in their native language.
www.wikihow.com /Haggle   (1854 words)

  
 How To Haggle
I’ve heard many stories of people haggling to the bitter end over what they later discover amounted to less than a couple bucks.
Although haggling is a game, it has its rules of etiquette and fair play like any other.
Finally, don’t lose sight of the fact that haggling is a form of social interaction, not a fierce competition.
www.travellady.com /Issues/Issue61/howtohaggle.htm   (1700 words)

  
 Haggle and Bargaining Software
Haggle and Bargain selling of your products and services is a perfect way to give your customers additional flexibility in achieving a common ground that is acceptable to both you and their perceived value.
Haggle and Bargaining software allows you to set a price for each product or service in your inventory that is different from the store price.
The Haggle Close Out feature of the Haggle and Bargaining software component automatically completes the process of this selling method by reducing the Haggle Quantity by the amount of the product sold, notifying the administrator when haggle inventory is low, and records data into your order management and customer management systems.
www.make-a-store.com /site/category/p0_Haggle_and_Bargaining_Software_Features   (468 words)

  
 How to Haggle Prices - eHow.com
Haggling over a price can be a fun way to get the best deal on something you want.
Chances are, if you're anywhere in the ballpark of what he or she wants for the item, he or she won't let you - or your money - get away.
Although major department stores and online commerce sites usually don't have the flexibility to negotiate prices, you may want to give haggling a try in those venues, especially if there is an obvious flaw in the product.
www.ehow.com /how_9551_haggle-prices.html   (459 words)

  
 Tips from eHow users on How to Haggle Prices - eHow.com
If an item is less than pristine or if it is missing a button or has something else minor wrong, haggling will sometimes work in a department store.
You're welcome to haggle a bit if you come to my handmade candles booth at a craft fair.
Watch the "bracket" John P. When haggling, there is a natural tendency to "bracket" the negotiation.
www.ehow.com /tips_9551_2.html   (721 words)

  
 Business Wire: Netmarket Introduces Haggle Zone; Netmarket, the Internet's Leading General Merchandiser, Introduces ...
Haggle Zone represents a landmark in interactivity for the e-commerce industry.
Using Haggle Zone's online characters, shoppers can bargain over prices for everything from consumer electronics to vacations, creating a bazaar-type atmosphere in which shoppers purchase name-brand merchandise at incredible savings.
Haggle Zone visitors can choose one of three personality types to bargain against: Dot Com, a friendly but numbers-savvy negotiator; Monte, the Haggle Zone's resident comedian; and Stubby, a no-nonsense guy who just wants to make a sale.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_1998_Oct_30/ai_53151526   (684 words)

  
 Do you price haggle? - Contractor Talk™ Forums
Tell people you don't haggle, you are giving them the best price with a fair overhead and profit.
Haggle is not the term I would use, barter would be something I would go for.
It would have to be an extreme circumstance for me to haggle after the point of the quote being given.
www.contractortalk.com /showthread.php?t=1939   (1767 words)

  
 Haggle Zone   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The Haggle Zone selling price is effected by market conditions, product availability, customer demand, volume discounts, sales incentives and of course, your haggling skill.
If you haggle several times, you'll see that there is never one set low price.
You can Haggle 'til the cows come home without buying anything if you like, but we're betting you'll find a deal worth accepting before then.
www.writeonoffice.com /offers/haggle.htm   (241 words)

  
 Lensmoor Web Help   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Haggling is an indispensable skill to the trader.
It allows a character to match wits with a merchant, seeking to get a better price for merchandise, or to buy at the lowest possible cost.
Unfortunately, most merchants are already very skilled at haggling, so the untrained adventurer had best guard his treasure closely.
lensmoor.org /cgi-bin/help.cgi?helpon=haggle   (53 words)

  
 How do you (not) haggle when buying a car? | Ask MetaFilter   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Over the past week or so, I've attempted to use services that aim to take the butt-puckeringly annoying activity of haggling out of purchasing a car while still getting a fair price, but I've found this to be pretty frustrating as well.
She went to another dealer, who apparently had seen her name come up through the autobytel request, and basically rolled over unbidden--he said something like "you're on the Internet, so you know exactly how much you should be paying." He wound up giving her a better deal than she was expecting.
There is an utter lack of haggling when people are just being added to the bottom of the waiting list (well worth it, though).
ask.metafilter.com /mefi/15343   (4483 words)

  
 Why it pays to haggle | This is Money
A study today reveals that almost three quarters of shoppers are prepared to bargain for a better price and one in three has successfully managed to save money by haggling in the last six months.
But, despite the fact that it recently became legal to haggle with taxi drivers rather than pay the metered fare, the cabbies we found would not offer a discount.
It concluded that the average saving-from a successful haggling session was about 12%.
www.thisismoney.co.uk /money-savers/article.html?in_article_id=400918&in_page_id=1&ito=1565   (653 words)

  
 Saturn: Secrets of the 'no-haggle' price - Sep. 21, 2006
While GM (Charts) can't legally forbid dealers from haggling over those prices, the company can mete out "consequences" to dealers who stray.
Cars have been haggled over ever since they started being mass produced around 1910, said Bob Casey, curator of transportation at the Henry Ford Museum in Michigan.
With various outlets within a short drive of one another, a dealer would be foolish not to consider a customer's request to shave a few hundred dollars off the price.
money.cnn.com /2006/09/19/autos/debating_no-haggle/index.htm?postversion=2006092114   (1060 words)

  
 Cable users haggle for lower bills - 06/19/05   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The discounts often aren't advertised, but customer service representatives are authorized to give them out as either a reward for loyalty or as an incentive to stay with that company.
Cable bills might not seem like enough money to haggle over, but the savings can be substantial.
A subscriber in Berkley was given a $504 discount over the next year and a half.
www.detnews.com /2005/business/0506/19/A01-220249.htm   (1347 words)

  
 MSN Money - Haggle with your doctor, cut your bill   (Site not responding. Last check: )
According to The Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights (FTCR), everything in health care is negotiable, even the bills from your doctor, pharmacist and hospital.
This varies from 54% of those who spoke with their doctors to 48% who talked with their pharmacists, 47% of those who talked with their dentists, and 45% of those who talked with hospitals about their bills or prices.
There's both an art and science to haggling for lower health-care prices, according to Gelb.
moneycentral.msn.com /content/Insurance/Insureyourhealth/P35612.asp   (830 words)

  
 Car-buying: Women won't haggle   (Site not responding. Last check: )
When shopping for cars, women don't haggle -- and it's costing them a bundle.
Still, there's got to be a way to land a good deal on a car and avoid an agonizing price negotiation.
And there is: Let car dealers haggle with each other over your business.
www.bankrate.com /brm/news/auto/20040127a1.asp   (586 words)

  
 haggle - Definition from the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
haggle - Definition from the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
transitive verb1: to cut roughly or clumsily : hack2archaic : to annoy or exhaust with wranglingintransitive verb: bargain, wrangle over the price>
Learn more about "haggle" and related topics at Britannica.com
www.merriam-webster.com /dictionary/haggle   (36 words)

  
 Eye - NEWS: Haggle over tuna prices? - 11.16.95   (Site not responding. Last check: )
When the shoppers reached the checkouts they tried to haggle over prices, like Social Services Minister David Tsubouchi suggested they do.
Loblaws manager Lloyd Smith refused to haggle, saying that all prices are set by head office.
Smith refused comment to the press, but another employee was overheard to say, "These people are just a bunch of protestors.
www.eye.net /eye/issue/issue_11.16.95/NEWS/nv1116.htm   (730 words)

  
 Phuket Thailand - the haggle
is it just me or do any of you find having to haggle for things becomes tiresome and very boring.
Bafana's idea is a good way to start haggling if that's what you want to do.
I love the expressions on their faces when all you offer is a third.
www.phuket-info.com /forums/polls-surveys/4478-haggle.html#post40179   (348 words)

  
 haggle
They spent hours haggling over the price of fish.
The senators haggled interminably over the proposed bill.
the act of haggling; wrangle or dispute over terms.
www.infoplease.com /dictionary/haggle   (53 words)

  
 The Washington Post cars.com:
But the following companies are examples that have adopted a haggle or no-haggle approach on a national scale.
It’s the company’s judgment that online customers prefer the one-price route, while people coming into a local dealer expect to haggle over competitive pricing.
As of May 2002, the company currently has about 373 locations in 26 large metro-area markets in 17 states across the country.
www.cars.com /carsapp/wpost?srv=parser&act=display&tf=/advice/shopping/superstores/retail_haggle.tmpl   (972 words)

  
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 MWerks Forums: How much of Scion's success is due to the no-haggle pricing, and how much to the cars?
The Scion Tc is 16,000, already including most of the options that start to push its competitors (Mazda3, for example) sky high in price.
Some of that is haggle-room being eliminated, but even if you haggled for it, it'd still be a pretty insane value IMHO.
Perhaps he is, regarding "enjoying" the process, but if you don't want to haggle just pay the sticker price.
forums.mwerks.com /zerothread?id=2007766   (2976 words)

  
 Survey Indicates Car Shoppers Prefer 'No Haggle' Prices   (Site not responding. Last check: )
RICHMOND, Va., Sept. 13 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- More than 70 percent of respondents to a recent online survey conducted by CarMax, Inc., (NYSE:KMX) the nation's largest retailer of used cars, indicated that getting a fair price without haggling is more important than negotiating the price when choosing where to buy a new or used vehicle.
The following are the results of the survey of 771 carmax.com visitors: Which of the following is more important to you when choosing a place to buy a new or used vehicle?
Percent Respondents I can get a fair price without haggling 73% 563 I can negotiate a lower price with a little effort 27% 208
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 Black Enterprise: To haggle or not to haggle? Tips on negotiating at the car dealership
Black Enterprise: To haggle or not to haggle?
Now, it's time to utilize your knowledge and chutzpah so that you can play "let's make a deal" with the salesperson.
Some of you may not like to haggle, but if you're like most, you want to get the most for your money.
calbears.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1365/is_4_35/ai_n6358779   (561 words)

  
 Haggle Project   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The Haggle project is exploring networking for mobile users using local peer-to-peer wireless connections as well as infrastructure-based Internet access when available.
The use of local connectivity is not well-supported in today's deployed devices and applications - for example, many users rely on USB keys for transferring data when their devices have compatible wireless interfaces.
Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others.
www.cambridge.intel-research.net /haggle/index.php   (234 words)

  
 Autumn Leaves: Haggle with the Hag
Her face is worn and gaunt from working in the mystery all night
Haggle is a word that means to cut into small pieces,
Haggle means to be difficult to bargain with
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 Haggle/Barter Module - osCommerce Community Support Forums   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Are any of you programmers able to create a Haggle Module?
*The software selects the nearest programmed 'haggle' price and come back to the customer whith a suitable comment like "You have got to be joking.
*The customer can carry on haggling until there are no pre-programmed options left and the final message says "I have gone as low as I am prepared to go"
forums.oscommerce.com /index.php?showtopic=100690   (262 words)

  
 MSN Encarta - Dictionary - haggle
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