Whats the best approach to some haggling at Circuit City?

[Stuxnet]

Originally posted by: MX2times
Nothing illegal or immoral please

Pay what's on the sticker.

It ain't a car dealership.

[edit]

I worked at CC while I was in college, and nothing - NOTHING - dissuaded me more from dealing with a person than "so what's your bottom line on this?"

1. It makes you look cheap.
2. It makes you look undeducated.
3. It makes you the butt of about 20 or so jokes after you leave.

I know you're not there to be friends with the salesperson, but unless another store has it for less and you have proof, you're wasting everyone's time and making a general jackass out of yourself.

 

[spidey07]

Originally posted by: jbourne77

Originally posted by: MX2times
Nothing illegal or immoral please

Pay what's on the sticker.

It ain't a car dealership.

In consumer electronics everything is negotiable. Never, ever pay retail.

 

[Nitemare]

Originally posted by: Leper Messiah

Originally posted by: Nitemare

Originally posted by: BriGy86
its my guess that the sales people wont really like you all that much if you try to haggle with them

All you are doing is wasting both of your times.

A. The associate is getting paid peanuts and not enough to put up with someone argueing about a price.
B. Only a manager or ass. manager can usually change the price.

God. I would hate when people tried to haggle with me at Kmart. I'd keep telling them "I don't have the authority to do that" but they wouldn't listen. Then they'd ask to see my manager, and the manager would tell them the same exact thing. Then she would look at me like "Why'd you call me over here for this..."

Exactly

 

[Nitemare]

Originally posted by: spidey07

Originally posted by: jbourne77

Originally posted by: MX2times
Nothing illegal or immoral please

Pay what's on the sticker.

It ain't a car dealership.

In consumer electronics everything is negotiable. Never, ever pay retail.

I'd kick you out of the store if I was the manager

 

[Stuxnet]

Originally posted by: spidey07

Originally posted by: jbourne77

Originally posted by: MX2times
Nothing illegal or immoral please

Pay what's on the sticker.

It ain't a car dealership.

In consumer electronics everything is negotiable. Never, ever pay retail.

See my edit. For the most part, you're wrong. As a general rule, you will be laughed out of the store (even if you don't realize it at the time).

 

[Garet Jax]

Originally posted by: jbourne77

Originally posted by: MX2times
Nothing illegal or immoral please

Pay what's on the sticker.

It ain't a car dealership.

[edit]

I worked at CC while I was in college, and nothing - NOTHING - dissuaded me more from dealing with a person than "so what's your bottom line on this?"

1. It makes you look cheap.
2. It makes you look undeducated.
3. It makes you the butt of about 20 or so jokes after you leave.

I know you're not there to be friends with the salesperson, but unless another store has it for less and you have proof, you're wasting everyone's time and making a general jackass out of yourself.

I could care less what you guys think of me - I make my money go very far since my wife is a stay at home mom and we have two children (well one + one more in a week and a hlaf). You call it cheap - I call it frugal. Educate yourself on the difference.

 

[MX2]

As I understand it, the actual price of the item (as long as it something significant) can be reduced especially if you are considering buying a "Protection Policy" of some sort. I dont know if its true or not, but I have read (here I think) that employees are pushed to sell those policy's even if it means dropping the price of the item a bit. Now, If I can get $100 off a large TV and then pay $69 for the 3 year PP I feel I am doing better than paying full price for said TV. Regardless, I am not buying a $500 - $1000 dollar item without also buying some sort of lenghty service full coverage service plan.

Some folks mentioned haggling doesnt happen at retail stores(I am not talking about Kmart or Walmart)...what a bunch of baloney:roll: That may be true on small items, but when it comes to a salesman making a sale that is over $500 and he is paid on a commision basis with or without hourly, the price can be haggled a little a least. Even if its $20 bucks, its $20 bucks.

I figured maybe someone here had recent experience directly with a large purchase at CC, and could offer some advice. Personally, I have never purchased anything large-ish at CC, this will be my first time. Last large item I bought was at Ultimate Electronics (Soundtrack) and they price matched and then beat the price by about $50 to keep me there with my purchase. Unfortunately, I have found nowhere locally that sells the same item I am now looking at.


Call it cheap or whatever. Its my money, and the farther I stretch my dollars the better off I am. I could also careless what a salesman jokes about when I leave. He is the one that works at CC

If I ask and it doesnt happen, no sweat, I pay what it says. Just thought maybe someone had something insightful to share.

 

[HumblePie]

Originally posted by: Injury
Most retails stores don't pricematch... but most retail stores don't have commission-based employees like circuit city.

Nearly everywhere that pays employees by commission with budge a bit with price on high dollar items. But don't expect to get things like movies, music, games and game systems for cheaper.

It IS possible to haggle with some of the people at Best Buy on items that they have to walk you to the front counter with. Esp. getting discounts on the installation of car equipment.

The idea you people need to understand is "You never know unless you ask."

If someone says no, then you are no worse off than you were before you asked. Done. You either shut up and pay retail or go somewhere else.

WHAT THE HELL? I worked at CC for almost 2 years. It's been a LONG LONG LONG time since it was commision based. When the hell did you crawl out from under your rock?

As for haggling uh... no it's not going to happen in a retail chain store. You can pricematch to another store if it's cheaper and can prove it, but there are always caveats to pricematching. Beyond that, if it's not an advertised sale, a coupon, or a rebate, you aren't getting a discount if you don't work there.

I also worked in a the San Antonio store for quite awhile. We have a ton of Mexican Nationals that come up all the time fom Mexico to buy crap and take back across the border and they ALWAYS try to haggle. It's so annoying. Just because they do business like that there doesn't make it the way here. I would like to say to them, "Go outside and play hide and go fvck yourself" whenever they try to haggle. Wait I did sometimes, but since they barely speak English they hardly understand what I said anyhow.


So to answer your question. No, you can't haggle at CC really unless its on something like an open boxed, returned item.

 

[spidey07]

Originally posted by: jbourne77

Originally posted by: spidey07

Originally posted by: jbourne77

Originally posted by: MX2times
Nothing illegal or immoral please

Pay what's on the sticker.

It ain't a car dealership.

In consumer electronics everything is negotiable. Never, ever pay retail.

See my edit. For the most part, you're wrong. As a general rule, you will be laughed out of the store (even if you don't realize it at the time).

Ok, I'm wrong. I have however never paid retail for consumer electronics and nobody else should either. Its the suckers who pay retail that get a laugh out of me.

If you don't deal, you don't get my money. I could care less if a pimply saleguy laughs at me. Easy as that. Given that you've been in the industry I'm sure you are aware of the huge mark ups on consumer electronics.

If the store won't budge of of retail, then they are ripping you off.

 

[Ameesh]

Originally posted by: Kaido
Eh, I don't think you can haggle at CC man...

you can haggle everywhere, you just have to sack up and do it.

 

[andylawcc]

you indian or chinese?

 

[Stuxnet]

Originally posted by: Garet Jax

Originally posted by: jbourne77

Originally posted by: MX2times
Nothing illegal or immoral please

Pay what's on the sticker.

It ain't a car dealership.

[edit]

I worked at CC while I was in college, and nothing - NOTHING - dissuaded me more from dealing with a person than "so what's your bottom line on this?"

1. It makes you look cheap.
2. It makes you look undeducated.
3. It makes you the butt of about 20 or so jokes after you leave.

I know you're not there to be friends with the salesperson, but unless another store has it for less and you have proof, you're wasting everyone's time and making a general jackass out of yourself.

I could care less what you guys think of me - I make my money go very far since my wife is a stay at home mom and we have two children (well one + one more in a week and a hlaf). You call it cheap - I call it frugal. Educate yourself on the difference.

I don't need to educate myself on the difference between cheap and frugal to know that you won't get anywhere with these tactics. The term you slap on your behavior has no impact on reality, nor does whether or not you care about the salespeople (I've been out of sales since I left college, but I assure you the feeling is probably mutual anyway). The fact is you're wasting your time and making a fool out of yoursel in the process. Frugal, cheap, stupid, whatever you want to call it, it doesn't matter. It's still a waste of your time.

To be completely honest, the salespeople might not even mind people like you once in awhile. It gives them the chance to get cocky and sh1tty with a customer without the fear of being reprimanded, because truth be told, these attempts at "frugality" torque the managers a lot more than the employees. To some kid putting himself through school, you're just a minor annoyance - a gnat, if you will - that will soon be gone. The real effect of this is that you're simply wasting a lot of your own time.

 

[dabuddha]

Originally posted by: Garet Jax

Originally posted by: jbourne77

Originally posted by: MX2times
Nothing illegal or immoral please

Pay what's on the sticker.

It ain't a car dealership.

[edit]

I worked at CC while I was in college, and nothing - NOTHING - dissuaded me more from dealing with a person than "so what's your bottom line on this?"

1. It makes you look cheap.
2. It makes you look undeducated.
3. It makes you the butt of about 20 or so jokes after you leave.

I know you're not there to be friends with the salesperson, but unless another store has it for less and you have proof, you're wasting everyone's time and making a general jackass out of yourself.

I could care less what you guys think of me - I make my money go very far since my wife is a stay at home mom and we have two children (well one + one more in a week and a hlaf). You call it cheap - I call it frugal. Educate yourself on the difference.

Exactly. Don't listen to these morons. Not everyones rich like they are and can afford to throw their money away like they apparently do.

 

[MX2]

Originally posted by: andylawcc
you indian or chinese?

:roll:

Both...and black and hispanic too:roll:

 

[Sphexi]

Originally posted by: jbourne77

Originally posted by: MX2times
Nothing illegal or immoral please

Pay what's on the sticker.

It ain't a car dealership.

[edit]

I worked at CC while I was in college, and nothing - NOTHING - dissuaded me more from dealing with a person than "so what's your bottom line on this?"

1. It makes you look cheap.
2. It makes you look undeducated.
3. It makes you the butt of about 20 or so jokes after you leave.

I know you're not there to be friends with the salesperson, but unless another store has it for less and you have proof, you're wasting everyone's time and making a general jackass out of yourself.

QFT


People think they can get deals on anything. Apparantly everybody watches infomercials and listens to Tony Robbins these days, because they think with the right amount of arguing and self-esteem they can get whatever they want. I used to love having conversations like this everyday:

<Cust.> This is a nice phone, I like it.
<Me> Well it is a good deal too, would you like me to grab you one?
<Cust.> Well, I've seen similar ones for half the price at Costco's.
<Me> ....and?
<Cust.> So I don't think I should be paying this much for it. Their's seems like a much better deal.
<Me> Well could you pick me up one too when you go by there?

 

[MrCodeDude]

Hahaha. You can't haggle anything at Circuit City except maybe their warranty stuff which is already marked up 500% or something.

 

[Stuxnet]

Originally posted by: HumblePie
I also worked in a the San Antonio store for quite awhile. We have a ton of Mexican Nationals that come up all the time fom Mexico to buy crap and take back across the border and they ALWAYS try to haggle. It's so annoying. Just because they do business like that there doesn't make it the way here. I would like to say to them, "Go outside and play hide and go fvck yourself" whenever they try to haggle. Wait I did sometimes, but since they barely speak English they hardly understand what I said anyhow.


So to answer your question. No, you can't haggle at CC really unless its on something like an open boxed, returned item.

I seriously had a guy offer me $200 "CASH MONEY" (!) for a $1500 computer once. I laughed so hard I had tears streaming down my face.

When confronted with "what's the bottom-line on this?", my favorite response was to say "oh I'm sorry... the pricetag must have been crooked". I would then pick it up and hand it to them so they could read it "up close".

Who knows, maybe the numbers were too small... but we all know that the real problem was that the numbers were way, WAY too big..........

 

[Medicine Bear]

Originally posted by: jbourne77

Originally posted by: spidey07

Originally posted by: jbourne77

Originally posted by: MX2times
Nothing illegal or immoral please

Pay what's on the sticker.

It ain't a car dealership.

In consumer electronics everything is negotiable. Never, ever pay retail.

See my edit. For the most part, you're wrong. As a general rule, you will be laughed out of the store (even if you don't realize it at the time).

I bought a Samsung 50 inch DLP at CC a few months back and got them to knock $300 off the price of the set and $75 off the price of the stand.

 

[Garet Jax]

Originally posted by: dabuddha

Exactly. Don't listen to these morons. Not everyones rich like they are and can afford to throw their money away like they apparently do.

Don't get me wrong - I am very comfortable, but I am because I haggle. If they won't budge - no big deal I wait until I find someone who will. I almost never pay retail prices for anything. The only real cases are when it is an emergency or it is something I really really want.

 

[Stuxnet]

Originally posted by: dabuddha

Originally posted by: Garet Jax

Originally posted by: jbourne77

Originally posted by: MX2times
Nothing illegal or immoral please

Pay what's on the sticker.

It ain't a car dealership.

[edit]

I worked at CC while I was in college, and nothing - NOTHING - dissuaded me more from dealing with a person than "so what's your bottom line on this?"

1. It makes you look cheap.
2. It makes you look undeducated.
3. It makes you the butt of about 20 or so jokes after you leave.

I know you're not there to be friends with the salesperson, but unless another store has it for less and you have proof, you're wasting everyone's time and making a general jackass out of yourself.

I could care less what you guys think of me - I make my money go very far since my wife is a stay at home mom and we have two children (well one + one more in a week and a hlaf). You call it cheap - I call it frugal. Educate yourself on the difference.

Exactly. Don't listen to these morons. Not everyones rich like they are and can afford to throw their money away like they apparently do.

LOL these "morons" are far more qualified to field questions on the topic than you are. A lot of these "morons" were on the other end of these attempted transactions and know what the limits are.

I can't in good faith make a blanket statement and say "this will never, ever work", but I'm willing to stop just short of that and say "good fscking luck - you're wasting your time". I've been there and done that.

It's not a matter of being rich. If you can't afford it, you can't buy it. Period.

 

[Garet Jax]

Originally posted by: jbourne77

It's not a matter of being rich. If you can't afford it, you can't buy it. Period.

It has nothing to do with being able to afford it or not - it is whether or not I have to pay the asked price. Sometimes there is flexibility - sometimes there isn't. If not and I don't want to spend asked price - I don't.

No harm done by asking.

 

[Stuxnet]

Originally posted by: Sphexi
<Cust.> This is a nice phone, I like it.
<Me> Well it is a good deal too, would you like me to grab you one?
<Cust.> Well, I've seen similar ones for half the price at Costco's.
<Me> ....and?
<Cust.> So I don't think I should be paying this much for it. Their's seems like a much better deal.
<Me> Well could you pick me up one too when you go by there?

Yep, I used to get that a lot too. I promptly terminated those conversations with "well, if it was such a good deal then what (TF) are you doing here?"

 

[Stuxnet]

Originally posted by: Garet Jax
It has nothing to do with being able to afford it or not - it is whether or not I have to pay the asked price.

True. You always have the option of not buying it.

Originally posted by: Garet Jax
No harm done by asking.

I guess technically no harm, but I don't see the value in running all over town to save $$ when you can buy this stuff online - tax free and free shipping - at humongous discounts. I guess - personally speaking - my time is way too valueable for that, and given that there are very viable alternatives to CC and BB, I'm a little shocked that people are still doing this.

 

[MX2]

Originally posted by: jbourne77

Originally posted by: Sphexi
<Cust.> This is a nice phone, I like it.
<Me> Well it is a good deal too, would you like me to grab you one?
<Cust.> Well, I've seen similar ones for half the price at Costco's.
<Me> ....and?
<Cust.> So I don't think I should be paying this much for it. Their's seems like a much better deal.
<Me> Well could you pick me up one too when you go by there?

Yep, I used to get that a lot too. I promptly terminated those conversations with "well, if it was such a good deal then what (TF) are you doing here?"

Yeah, I believe you talked to customers like that and got away with it:roll:

 

[spidey07]

For those fools who continue to pay retail for electronics, here's an idea of what is out there. If circuit city won't deal (and they do) then take your business elsewhere.

sammy 6768...retail 6999 will get it for under 5K.

the samsung DLPs especially have a lot of room.

Don't pay retail.