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Someone who treats the price tag as a opening bid, not a verdict.
means A person who negotiates persistently to get a lower price, usually through back-and-forth bargaining.
from From 'haggle,' which likely comes from a Scandinavian source related to Old Norse 'haggva' (to hew or chop) — the same root that gives English 'hack.' The idea seems to be cutting a deal down piece by piece, the way you'd hack at something to whittle it smaller. By the 1500s 'haggle' meant to cut clumsily; by the 1600s it had settled into its modern sense of wrangling over a price, with 'haggler' following soon after as the person doing the wrangling.
- origin
- from haggle, once meant to hack or mangle
- tactic
- walking away is the strongest word in their vocabulary
- global norm
- fixed prices are the historical oddity, not haggling
- best weapon
- silence after the counteroffer, not more talking