Comments on: Turkish Haggling http://selfmademinds.com/200708/turkish-haggling/ Sharing lessons learned in business and online marketing Sun, 13 Nov 2011 20:21:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Cheap DVDs http://selfmademinds.com/200708/turkish-haggling/comment-page-1/#comment-17683 Cheap DVDs Sat, 19 Mar 2011 12:21:59 +0000 http://selfmademinds.com/200708/turkish-haggling/#comment-17683 Blimey - sounds a nightmare! I've never haggled and would hate it, so I hope the wife doesn't want to go to Turkey! Luckily for me, though, she'd not expect me to buy her expensive jewellery while on holiday! Blimey – sounds a nightmare! I’ve never haggled and would hate it, so I hope the wife doesn’t want to go to Turkey! Luckily for me, though, she’d not expect me to buy her expensive jewellery while on holiday!

]]> By: matt@best etf funds http://selfmademinds.com/200708/turkish-haggling/comment-page-1/#comment-12711 matt@best etf funds Tue, 05 May 2009 13:24:18 +0000 http://selfmademinds.com/200708/turkish-haggling/#comment-12711 People liked to do this they thought they got a deal. Now people want no hassles just lowest price when they wlak in. Saturn showed more people just wanted best price no games. matt@best etf funds's last blog post..<a href="http://best-etf-funds-list.blogspot.com/2009/05/bond-etf.html">Bond etf.</a> People liked to do this they thought they got a deal. Now people want no hassles just lowest price when they wlak in. Saturn showed more people just wanted best price no games.

matt@best etf funds’s last blog post..Bond etf.

]]> By: David http://selfmademinds.com/200708/turkish-haggling/comment-page-1/#comment-11114 David Wed, 10 Dec 2008 05:06:54 +0000 http://selfmademinds.com/200708/turkish-haggling/#comment-11114 Yeah gotta agree - lucky escape. Haggling is not easy at the best of times, let alone in a country that you may be completely clueless about their customs and what is and isn't insulting. Yeah gotta agree – lucky escape. Haggling is not easy at the best of times, let alone in a country that you may be completely clueless about their customs and what is and isn’t insulting.

]]> By: lilandrew http://selfmademinds.com/200708/turkish-haggling/comment-page-1/#comment-9184 lilandrew Thu, 26 Jun 2008 18:56:27 +0000 http://selfmademinds.com/200708/turkish-haggling/#comment-9184 wow, good story. Am going on my first trip abroad to Turkey - on the 7th of July, but having read all these stories about haggling,im feeling quite skeptical, coming from UK, we dont haggle, only at a boot sale, so can i ask for all ur top tips on how to haggle, sounds stupid i know, but im 18 and really dont know lol - but would really help me. Cheers. wow, good story.
Am going on my first trip abroad to Turkey – on the 7th of July, but having read all these stories about haggling,im feeling quite skeptical, coming from UK, we dont haggle, only at a boot sale, so can i ask for all ur top tips on how to haggle, sounds stupid i know, but im 18 and really dont know lol – but would really help me. Cheers.

]]> By: Driver http://selfmademinds.com/200708/turkish-haggling/comment-page-1/#comment-2796 Driver Sat, 11 Aug 2007 20:54:50 +0000 http://selfmademinds.com/200708/turkish-haggling/#comment-2796 Great post, fun to use the power of information on the net to beat the local haggling game. I find myself leaning on it more for each purchase and going to the stored less, unless I need it now. Great post, fun to use the power of information on the net to beat the local haggling game. I find myself leaning on it more for each purchase and going to the stored less, unless I need it now.

]]> By: Self Made Minds » Blog Archive » Time for Action http://selfmademinds.com/200708/turkish-haggling/comment-page-1/#comment-2721 Self Made Minds » Blog Archive » Time for Action Tue, 07 Aug 2007 11:50:34 +0000 http://selfmademinds.com/200708/turkish-haggling/#comment-2721 [...] with haggling I did a fair bit of reading on holiday. One of the books I read was The E-Myth Revisted, a decent [...] [...] with haggling I did a fair bit of reading on holiday. One of the books I read was The E-Myth Revisted, a decent [...]

]]> By: Andy http://selfmademinds.com/200708/turkish-haggling/comment-page-1/#comment-2671 Andy Fri, 03 Aug 2007 04:17:36 +0000 http://selfmademinds.com/200708/turkish-haggling/#comment-2671 haha. Chinese, Turkish, Indian merchants are a strange lot. Haggling sometimes seems like a game to them, but then they'll turn on you at the drop of a hat and accuse you of shaming their family etc! You could have got the ring for $5K if your opening bid was about $6.5K. And then slowly and patiently work down, and fool the merchant into thinking he's being a nice guy by offering a low price. Cutting to the chase makes them lose face, and hence the psycho reaction! haha. Chinese, Turkish, Indian merchants are a strange lot. Haggling sometimes seems like a game to them, but then they’ll turn on you at the drop of a hat and accuse you of shaming their family etc!

You could have got the ring for $5K if your opening bid was about $6.5K. And then slowly and patiently work down, and fool the merchant into thinking he’s being a nice guy by offering a low price.

Cutting to the chase makes them lose face, and hence the psycho reaction!

]]> By: Al http://selfmademinds.com/200708/turkish-haggling/comment-page-1/#comment-2664 Al Thu, 02 Aug 2007 09:17:11 +0000 http://selfmademinds.com/200708/turkish-haggling/#comment-2664 I didn't understand that either, but I wasn't given the option to hang around and discuss it :) I didn’t understand that either, but I wasn’t given the option to hang around and discuss it :)

]]> By: Al http://selfmademinds.com/200708/turkish-haggling/comment-page-1/#comment-2663 Al Thu, 02 Aug 2007 09:16:31 +0000 http://selfmademinds.com/200708/turkish-haggling/#comment-2663 Yeah I agree the level of service can be really good. We found a restaurant that we went to nearly every other day and at the end of the night the chef always gave us a lift back to the hotel which was really cool. Yeah I agree the level of service can be really good. We found a restaurant that we went to nearly every other day and at the end of the night the chef always gave us a lift back to the hotel which was really cool.

]]> By: Al http://selfmademinds.com/200708/turkish-haggling/comment-page-1/#comment-2662 Al Thu, 02 Aug 2007 09:01:38 +0000 http://selfmademinds.com/200708/turkish-haggling/#comment-2662 Yeah I think that's where they got it from, it's probably not the best of phrases to use when they're trying to sell something :) Yeah I think that’s where they got it from, it’s probably not the best of phrases to use when they’re trying to sell something :)

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