How to Haggle in China?

If you want to buy something at the market in China, you should remember that you can buy it at least half the initial price if you know how.
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ns8N ZY+`,g n,G!Z5t 2.Ask the price. Even if you think the price is cheap, never show what you think. You should pretend to be surprised or outraged. They must ask you how much you're willing to pay. mp&mpO'SH
3.Offer 1/3~1/5 the price. They might be angry or pretend not to want to sell it.
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1c_3N;W8t/A"[7d 6.Do it again and again. You could offer a little higher price. After the haggling you should be able to buy it at half off, or more, of the first price.
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1 When you offer one-fifth the price and pretend to leave, if they don't call you, you can't buy it with that price. You should offer a higher price in another shop. mt9pNwwV"I
2 If possible, you should have a firm grasp of Chinese phrases such as "How much?" and "That's much too expensive!" The more Chinese you know, the more successful your haggling can be.
,v2_'qVKB 3 If this is all new to you, practice on a lower priced item which you don't care that much about. This way you will get the hang of how this works before trying it with an item which you strongly wish to buy. m.lc2K| [g _q
4 Maybe I'm just lucky, but if you have friends who are native to the area, they usually know how low the natives can haggle, get some advice from them...and add it on Wikihow when you find a computer

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Your success can depend on how perceptive you are. You should try to determine from the clerk's facial expression and whether the clerk will change his/her mind.

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Haggling is quite boring, but someone enjoys it.....
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When you offer one-fifth the price and pretend to leave, if they don't call you, you can't buy it with that price. You should offer a higher price in another shop.
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Haggling,so hard work for all of us! Mhb8`g)z4Q.]\1O

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TKS!  :$

Oh, usually they keep themself to chinese too.:lol

to most of the foreign people, they won't bargain with the seller, as they think it isn't their custom.

mindy how can you know that?

:) i must learn

Reply #9 darrennoone's post

some of our foreign customers tell me, but maybe now more and more come to China, and they know in China you have to bargain with the seller, otherwise you'll be killed on the prices:P

working and learning........

my grandpa told me that when i want to buy somethings,i should haggle and pay by 1/3 of the original price long long ago.
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i believe in and alway do like that

So interesting, but I'm not good at it...
z1C&YeP\Q Learning...

it is ture ,and I have leart to do it ,but I am not good at it.

it is ture ,and I have leart to do it ,but I am not good at it.

As a chinese I need learning more too.:)

First, I wanna know if the first floorer is a foreign friend or a chinese,  you are so smart, so familiar with chinese people and the domestic market.  I am not good at haggling, sometime I hate it, so I seldom go to that place, just go to the supermarket, and go to the booth fetch what I wanna buy, then pay it. In the supermarket, neednot haggle.  But my girlfriend like shopping in the wholesale market, and she has the patience to haggle. Often she bargain with the seller, she gets it. :victory: :victory:

for end-users to bargin the price is very normal.
/TH[ @~2v5G but how do you like when an importer or re-seller haggle over price with you for order?
#M?/I V"dWn how do you cope with

I have a friend in Egypt is very very good at bargaining... Better than me...

my ma is very good at bargaining
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but i can't get any advantage of bargainC^ q(U6D:b
i am still need to  learn it too

LEARNIGN........

although i'm a chinese,not good at haggle in wholesale market.so when i buy sth,incline to paying more money.now i usually go to the supermarket where the price have been marked needed to haggle.i like this way ,it makes things easy.:P

If   you  want  to  practise   your   speechcraft!  pls   go  to  the  place of  the wholesale market!

yea compare with girls and boys E'Ad:u#ir-J)a"zJ j
more girls are good at it

it is so ........ how can you do this in China. Made me fell sick!!! Both of you and these Chinese sellers. Where are our own brands. We need to get proud of our own things made in China!!!!!

I really hate to bargain when I do shopping,so I also donnt like to sail about.I scare those people spitman.God ,help me!

It's really like this, you are great!

I am not good at haggling, sometime I hate it, so I seldom go to that place, just go to the supermarket, and go to the booth fetch what I wanna buy, then pay it. In the supermarket, neednot haggle.`7s-Ss7w-I#N-?

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I just do that way.

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learning..

The haggling way offered by the poster is great and creative,but i dare not to counter-offer 1/3-1/5 of the initial price,in that case,maybe the seller will regard me as an insane!in most place of China,count-off 1/2 of the orginal price is enough!5G?#?+s3@e\
anyway,i prefer to purchase in franchise store where price is more reasonable!