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Re:Chrome extension recommends local businesses while shoppi... by manigandham on Saturday May 08, 2021 @12:33PM (#27088595)
Haggling is tiring and mostly useless considering the time and energy expended. There's a reason most shopping has gone towards standardized list prices without negotiation, and this happened way before Amazon existed. Even the large purchases like cars and real estate are trending towards upfront pricing now.

Now recommendations by a store expert are a different thing, but local businesses are again limited by recommending only what they have in stock, not what's actually best for you. I've rarely found anyone who would actually tell me to go somewhere else to get what I need.

Re:Chrome extension recommends local businesses while shoppi... by orhmeh09 on Saturday May 08, 2021 @01:57PM (#27089359)
Is this really true for real estate? In the U.S., I regularly hear how people must offer tens of thousands of dollars over a house’s listed price to get any consideration (Seattle).