So how does this proposed government handout work?

[chrisvp]

Thats a supremo haggler , a person who makes several staff actually work is ace in my opinion because they actually sometimes even stitch the staff on product knowledge and give em a run for their money heh heh
Only shit stirring ya Bro

yes but you ain't the person they complain to when cunts like you take up all the staffs' time being a pain in the arse.

 

[chrisvp]

reminds me of when I used to work at Metal Mayhem and the same guy would come in every week asking for anything from Sweet the band
Another time a guy from a Kvult true metal band came in and wanted to buy a Destruction shirt and was complaining that the shirt was still expensive even after I gave him a discount from my own accord, he was short of being told to fuck off, not for wasting my time but for becoming a dickhead and sooking .
just remember kiddies bullet belts and gauntlets with studs all over the shithouse dont maketh a man.

Hagglin' is fine when the situation calls for it. At work, we get the same guy every week (I had him today) trying to get us to sell him things for the same price that he got it for on a sale once upon a time. "You must be able to sell it to me for that much when I have bought it from you for that much in the past" ...mate, I am a shit kicker, I can't do shit for you. Get it in your head.

 

[Winmar]

Haggling recently got me a Canon 40D + 18-75mm lens + 50mm lens + 8Gb CF card + extended warranty for $1660 at JB when they advertised $1949 in store for just the 40D and 18-75mm.

How do you go about getting a deal like that? I'm a shit haggler.

 

[FerretallicA]

Hurrah! Got my $900 and put it straight onto paying off the last of my credit card debt.

What really pisses me off at the moment is all the people I hear whinging about their money not arriving yet and needing it to pay for shit they bought expecting to have the money by now. If you can't afford to get by, don't spend money you don't have yet! Idiots...

How do you go about getting a deal like that? I'm a shit haggler.

Having a fair idea of their cost price for everything (they get HUGE mark-up on lenses), having a "quote" from a nearby rival store which has the same items in stock (in this case the Dick Smith opposite to them, but any store which advertises things like "Make us an offer", "Less for cash", "Make a deal" etc is better) and making it clear you really want to buy and just need a little bit more of a push to get over the line (e.g. "I'm going overseas in 2 months, I really want it now but if I buy it more than 30 days before I take it out of Australia I can't get the rebate and won't be able to afford the memory card or extra lens I was going to buy"). As long as the store makes a decent margin and the sales person still feel like they've had a win when you walk out of the store with a whole bunch of shit they'll generally be easier to bargain with in the future too.

 

[phlogiston]

That's pretty much how we go about it.

You need to make the salesman work as little as possible. Know exactly what you want (as in which item), and like Ferret says above, be prepared to a) buy it then and there if they play ball, or b) walk out immediately.

Our script is usually a variation of:
I want to buy this television. What's the best you can do? What's the best you can do for cash? I've seen it at X for $Y, can you at least match it and save me the trip over there? Can you throw in a cable as well? Here's the money.

If you're gonna dick them around and ask them a thousand questions about a thousand different items, they're not going to do much for you.

Also: The Good Guys suck. Clive Peeters do better than you think they will on prices. Myer has a price matching policy that they don't advertise.

 

[FerretallicA]

I only say The Good Guys because they advertise "less for cash" so if you go into a store and say the Good Guys offered $A even though they advertise at $B the sales person is more likely to believe it than if you said somewhere like Target made an offer well below their advertised price.

Another tip... floor staff are usually given a fixed price or percentage which they can go down to and no lower. If you're not happy with the price and fairly confident they can go lower don't be afraid to ask for a supervisor or manager who usually has the authority to approve bigger discounts. Don't blindly believe them when they put on a genuine face and say "sorry man, that's already barely over our cost price" (again, know what an item is worth before you go in).

The last time I went to Myer I was looking for a Nintendo DS and ended up leaving with 6 work shirts and a rainbow lorikeet instead...

 

[Shadow298]

Clive Anthony are now doing the less for cash thing too and will price match 14 days after purchase if you provide proper evidence of a cheaper price.

 

[phlogiston]

The Good Guys do "less for cash" because the posted prices are about 20% higher than everywhere else. At least the local one.

 

[Winmar]

Interesting! Thanks fellas, I'll have to employ those techniques myself.

 

[TinMan666]

The Good Guys do "less for cash" because the posted prices are about 20% higher than everywhere else. At least the local one.

i dunno mang, i usually find their advertised prices are cheaper than anything else i can find, and then they still wipe a few bucks off for you.

YMMV i guess.

 

[phlogiston]

Must be just the local ones then. We were after a cordless phone at one point, which was RRP $179. The Good Guys had it advertised at $184. We had a catalog from a competitor in our hands that had it for $125. They wouldn't even come down to RRP for us. We had a similar thing happen with an oven, only that time we were spending $1600. (Theirs was something like $1899).

And this was after us just walking up to the salesman saying we want to buy this one here right now.

Either they don't have targets there, or they were just telling us to piss off. Either way, the only reason we go there now is to research as they've got quite a good range. We pick what we want and then take it to our guy at Clive Peeters, who'll order it in for less that we can get it at Good Guys.

 

[Spiff]

A few years ago there were two computer game stores on Queen Street Mall. One was Games R Us and they were really annoying because their staff would always ask if they could help you, etc. The other one was good, let you mind your own business - only ever spoke to you if they approached you, and their prices were better.

One day I decided to get either Tomb Raider 2 or Resident Evil but couldn't decide which. Didn't really know anything about either game except that they were supposed to be good. I went to Games R Us. They gave me the lowdown (we both decided Tomb Raider 2 would be the better buy). Then I went to the other store and bought it.

Sweet.