[C-Whitt]

As a person who spent several years in the military, and traveled to many countries in the Europian area I.E. Turkey, Greece, Italy, Egypt and others, it was commonly told to us to not accept the first offer of price on items from the local Bazaar vendors. Haggling was expected and it was even better if you were good at it, it was very fun to haggle with the vendors, they would go into long stories of how you were ripping them off and so forth, but was all in good fun and a sort of friendly banter between vendor and customer that could go on for several minutes until either you agreed or walked away at which point they usually would agree to your offer. I had a blast just going to the local bazaar doing just this. So I would agree with the above respondent, that bargaining in other countries is expected, because they usually are accustomed to being told an inflated price in order to start the haggling ‘game’.

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Name : C-Whitt, City : Dallas, State : TX, Country : United States, 

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