Rat Like Cunning
A couple of months ago Adam and I were invited to the Acton MBA grand opening since he has helped create games for their MBA program. I picked up some of their literature since I was quite taken by their facilities, books adorning their shelves (which included Strong Fathers, Strong Daughters by Dr. Meg Meeker and The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis), and the many Catholic sounding quotes on their walls.
One of the brochures was: Everyone Needs a Little RLC. RLC is “Rat Like Cunning.” I was certainly not born with RLC so I have quite enjoyed reading it. And I certainly appreciate the advise in the literature that’s “for the rest of us.”
This morning I had the perfect opportunity to haggle!
After the successful pizza attempt last night, we discovered that our bread pan in our bread machine broke! This is totally unacceptable. I used my bread machine at least 2-3 times a week for bread and pizza dough. So we looked online for replacement bread pans for our machine model. Ebay was selling one for $50! Woah! That’s out of the price range of what we’re willing to pay! For that price, we might as well consider buying a new bread machine since we’ve had this machine since we’ve been married. So I called the manufacturing company this morning.
Lisa, the sales associate said, “The bread pan with shipping with be $50.34.”
Me: “Really. Can you bring the price down at all? It is an older model.”
Lisa: “Let me see what I can do. Hold on for a minute.”
Lisa comes back: “The lowest I can sell it for is $32.44, and that includes shipping.”
Me: “That would be great. I’ll take it.”
SCORE!!! I got 35% off! And all it took was knowing when to ask and having the courage to do so!
Way to go, love! I’m so proud of you.
wow! You are truly becoming a Gretencord!
Wow! Thanks for sharing that brochure. I just read it online. Now I can work on not feeling too bad when I haggle. There have only been a few times where I’ve mustered the courage to haggle, but I think it was because I worried too much of what others would think. I kept trying to think that the worse that could happen is that the salesperson can say “no.” I was once able to get price matching done with some shoes I noticed were selling for less at another store. The salesperson took me at my word at the price of the other store and matched the price even though she said, “We don’t do price matching.” heh!
Good job sis!!! One thing I learned from seminars is that people are afraid to say “No” (I on the other hand do not have a problem with that
) Anyways, it never hurts to ask.. I have had the APR lowered on some of my credit cards, because I asked and since I always pay on time.
Love Ya!
Di