When all is said and done it will cost $3,017.56.
What I did was I called around and found another store that sells the same furniture. They told me that they also were having a 15% off sale but additionally, any floor model could be sold for 25% off. So I went back to the original store and asked if they would match it. I told them that I hadn't even gone to the other store so I couldn't say for sure what their floor models were but that if they had the couch I wanted then I was definitely going to buy it at 25% off. So, he hummed and hawed and eventually agreed. 25% off!
I had him write it down and he said I have until the end of the month to purchase. I am going to wait until my credit card statement is onto the next month. Not because I carry a balance or can't pay for the couch or whatever but because that way I don't have to pay any actual money until March which means my savings can make a few more dollars in the meantime. I do this all the time for big ticket items.
On an interesting note, I was telling a co-worker about how I got this 25% off deal and she said, "what do you mean? Isn't the price the price?" She had no idea that furniture was something you could negotiate. So I listed the items you could negotiate and I wondered if I was missing something. So take a look at my list and let me know if you have ever negotiated something else:
- clothing that is slightly damaged in a store
- furniture
- cars and other vehicles
- mattresses
- cell phone bills
- cable bills
did I miss anything?
Wow good for you, that's quite a large saving!
ReplyDeleteAs to your question - I have been told that dentists are in private business, meaning they set their own prices and you can bargain with them. I heard this from the HR administrator from my school who deals a lot with dental and health charges, so I figure he didn't pull this out of thinn air. That being said, I've never actually negotiated with my dentists, although I wish I had the guts to!
I've negotiated:
ReplyDelete- Rent
- Salary
- Moving services
- Vacation time
- Anything on Craigslist/Kijiji
- Insurance rates
- Electronics (sometimes you can pay full price for example for a camera and get the memory card free)
- Gym membership
ah. good lists! Although I didn't realize a gym membership could be negotiated. They seem so strict!
ReplyDeleteAnd insurance rates? That's new to me too. I'm starting to wonder if anything out there is NOT negotiable.
everything is negotiable basically. usually the bigger item tickets are the more negotiable items.
ReplyDeleteeven the low cost items too sometimes... but usually people are fearful of being called cheap so they don't. And usually you can haggle things in small businesses but maybe not corporate retail stores. but I did successfully convince a manager once to give me 20% off on shirt because it was "damaged" but it was really fixable.
My parents who owned a bakery store once had people come in haggling over day-old/half-price bread. Instead of 75 cents they wanted it for 25 cents. So yes... Haggle everything.
In the future, when you re-sign your cellphone contract and purchase a new phone, the phone price is negotiable. My phone, when re-signing, should have cost me $150... I paid $4.25.
ReplyDelete-Wendy
good to know. My cell phone contract is up in a few months so I will have to look into that.
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