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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
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