If you want to buy something at the market in China, you should remember that you can buy it at least half the initial price if you know how.
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1.So many choices!Look around the market and choose what you want to buy.
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2.Ask the price. Even if you think the price is cheap, never show what you think. You should pretend to be surprised or outraged. They must ask you how much you're willing to pay.
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4.Don't worry. Just leave. They will call you and offer a middle price.
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6.Do it again and again. You could offer a little higher price. After the haggling you should be able to buy it at half off, or more, of the first price.
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1 When you offer one-fifth the price and pretend to leave, if they don't call you, you can't buy it with that price. You should offer a higher price in another shop. [A Professional Business Forum](a'o'j:l5?#Z9H-x
2 If possible, you should have a firm grasp of Chinese phrases such as "How much?" and "That's much too expensive!" The more Chinese you know, the more successful your haggling can be. FOB Business Forum:]3t Z6w%V4y:t6?
3 If this is all new to you, practice on a lower priced item which you don't care that much about. This way you will get the hang of how this works before trying it with an item which you strongly wish to buy. business forum,trade forum,business opportunity,Business China,Business India,Brazil business'g)e(d;F!^
4 Maybe I'm just lucky, but if you have friends who are native to the area, they usually know how low the natives can haggle, get some advice from them...and add it on Wikihow when you find a computer FOB Business Forum!Q.O u7p0[9Q3^
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Your success can depend on how perceptive you are. You should try to determine from the clerk's facial expression and whether the clerk will change his/her mind.

Haggling is quite boring, but someone enjoys it.....#["p;x6L:? H
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[ Last edited by  Sincerebird at 2007-1-30 15:29 ]

When you offer one-fifth the price and pretend to leave, if they don't call you, you can't buy it with that price. You should offer a higher price in another shop.(a(P,\ B;W'@
We use it in daily life

Haggling,so hard work for all of us!
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TKS!  

Oh, usually they keep themself to chinese too.

to most of the foreign people, they won't bargain with the seller, as they think it isn't their custom.

mindy how can you know that?

i must learn

some of our foreign customers tell me, but maybe now more and more come to China, and they know in China you have to bargain with the seller, otherwise you'll be killed on the prices

working and learning........

my grandpa told me that when i want to buy somethings,i should haggle and pay by 1/3 of the original price long long ago.FOB Business Forum#X%@5F e |

*J1R$O7V'U.k/B*T$u3n[A Professional Business Forum]i believe in and alway do like that

So interesting, but I'm not good at it...FOB Business Forum)q"G0h3])W8K:V
Learning...

it is ture ,and I have leart to do it ,but I am not good at it.

it is ture ,and I have leart to do it ,but I am not good at it.