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I myself do not like to bargain in any shop.

I will look into the eyes of the shopkeeper and tell him

to give the minimum price he is wiling to sell it to me.

More often than not the fellow will spill the right price

saving us the time and energy spent in haggling!

In an extreme case when I visited a Pearl shop in an exhibition

- after spending almost all the cash I had with me-

the shop fellow was wiling to take whatever was left in my purse in exchange for

the string of the largest and most exquisite oblong pearls now in my possession.

I still can't believe why he gave it to me a mere 200 Rs while a

five row maalaa (may be equal to 6 lengths of it) costs Rs 3500!

Was it because I spoke in chaste Telugu (unheard of in CBE)

or did I resemble someone he knew/liked/ admired/

or is it because I argued with him saying that i will not take the pearls

since I do not want HIM to lose money in the sale or the deal.

<blockquote data-quote="Visalakshi Ramani" data-source="post: 332752" data-attributes="member: 16936">I myself do not like to bargain in any shop.I will look into the eyes of the shopkeeper and tell himto give the minimum price he is wiling to sell it to me.More often than not the fellow will spill the right price saving us the time and energy spent in haggling!In an extreme case when I visited a Pearl shop in an exhibition- after spending almost all the cash I had with me-&nbsp;the shop fellow was wiling to take whatever was left in my purse in exchange for the string of the largest and most exquisite oblong pearls now in my possession.I still can&#039;t believe why he gave it to me a mere 200 Rs while a five row maalaa (may be equal to 6 lengths of it) costs Rs 3500!Was it because I spoke in chaste Telugu (unheard of in CBE)or did I resemble someone he knew/liked/ admired/or is it because I argued with him saying that i will not take the pearls since I do not want HIM to lose money in the sale or the deal.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Visalakshi Ramani, post: 332752, member: 16936"] [SIZE=3][I]I myself do not like to bargain in any shop. I will look into the eyes of the shopkeeper and tell him to give the minimum price he is wiling to sell it to me. More often than not the fellow will spill the right price saving us the time and energy spent in haggling! In an extreme case when I visited a Pearl shop in an exhibition - after spending almost all the cash I had with me- the shop fellow was wiling to take [B]whatever was left in my purse[/B] in exchange for the string of the largest and most exquisite oblong pearls now in my possession. I still can't believe why he gave it to me a mere 200 Rs while a five row maalaa (may be equal to 6 lengths of it) costs Rs 3500! Was it because I spoke in chaste Telugu (unheard of in CBE) or did I resemble someone he knew/liked/ admired/ or is it because I argued with him saying that i will not take the pearls since I do not want HIM to lose money in the sale or the deal. [/I][/SIZE] [/QUOTE]

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