Working With Our Hands: What skills should we all develop?

[SifuPhil]

Barter is my middle name - I believe it was Born Into Me - lol lol I used to embarrass my son's father when we were first married - he was like you, " throw all the money at the seller and beg them to allow him to buy it" lol

Over time, he learned to be as bad as I was - lol

The worst you can hear, when bartering, is "NO!" lol lol

I was always the kind to judge a price not by what was stamped on the item nor on what the seller told me it cost, but by what the item was worth to ME. I had already made up my mind long before I got to the table / counter what that gizmo meant to me and what I was willing to pay for it. To me, negotiating is "haggling" (def: to cut roughly or clumsily; to annoy or exhaust with wrangling), and that isn't my personality type.

There's just something about the act of bargaining that turns me off - always has. It just feels like a demeaning process, for BOTH parties. I know it's the custom in many parts of the world and a great way to save money, but then I've never really been "about the money" ...

 

[That Guy]

There's just something about the act of bargaining that turns me off - always has. It just feels like a demeaning process, for BOTH parties. I know it's the custom in many parts of the world and a great way to save money, but then I've never really been "about the money" ...

You and me both, amigo.