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Re:Egypt demands over $1B in damages after Suez Canal blockage by ARandomerDude on Sunday April 04, 2021 @02:33PM (#26691742)
> This applies from billion dollar lawsuits to buying a pack of cigarettes. Haggling is an art form there.
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Re:Egypt demands over $1B in damages after Suez Canal blockage by elcritch on Sunday April 04, 2021 @05:44PM (#26693102)
Some sellers in markets in the region will get offended if you don’t try and haggle, even it means they’ll make 10x the profit that they’d settle for.
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Re:Egypt demands over $1B in damages after Suez Canal blockage by manquer on Sunday April 04, 2021 @06:18PM (#26693326)
It is not the about the money.

Traders would sometimes take a hit even for a good argument. There is no fun in making 10x money that way. They want to earn it.

You will find such traders in all over West Asia/arabic world like Egypt, Istanbul and as far off as delhi, not everyone is like that however, plenty will straight up cheat.

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