Haggling in a weak economy - Yahoo! Tech

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Saw this and decided to try it out by seeing if they would price match Amazon on a Canon HG10 AVCHD camcorder:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/t...c_mri?_encoding=UTF8&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&v=glance

The short answer? Denied. The long answer? Best Buy said most items from Amazon are stolen and you still have to pay for shipping anyway. And then he said, "how much are they selling it for anyway?" When I showed him that the price was over $300 less from Amazon proper, he said, "whoa, we won't sell this for that price."

But I posted this for a reason - who out there either tried this and got it to work for them, or works at a big box retailer and got the okay from corporate to start working out deals?
 
itd be worth it to try if you could haggle down the price of a ps3. i never knew you could do that in retail stores though seemed like more of a flea market kind of thing to do. aside from price matching you dont hear too much from haggling.
 
You can haggle for just about anything. The only places I've had bad luck are grocery stores but sometimes you can get a deal on meat and produce creeping up on its expiration date.
 
I've got a few Best Buy stores here in Colorado to match/beat prices from Amazon and a few other online retailers.

It never hurts to ask for better pricing. The worst they can say is NO and then you decide if you really want the product.
 
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