Tasks / Haggling
In this modern world you seldom get the chance for a decent bit of haggling. Rebel! Seize the chance to re-introduce the concept to market forces.
Go to a chain store, choose an item, find an assistant, start haggling. Failed efforts, in particular, should be great efforts.
1 to 100 players
25 points
Level 2
In the zone of: EquivalenZ
Created by Brand
1 completed :: 5 in progress
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Comments
It's a good task.
Might I suggest the use of alternative currencies as a way to force them to use non-listed prices?
Actually this is kind of 'in memoria' in Britain the chainstore 'Woolworths' has recently gone bust and a number of years ago I 'invented' the activity- 'Haggling in Woolworths' as a way to pass the time on days off when broke (working as a sports instructor meant that I spent most of my 2 days off each month broke...).
The idea was to find a clearly priced item, find a young spotty assistant and ask how much said item cost. This would normally result in a puzzled reply as the quoted the clearly visible price. You then say 'Ill give you ....'
Just once did they budge on price but on finding out I was broke and did not actually want said item they got rather cross so I had to leave in a hurry...
I do this all the time anyway..."Hey grocery jerk, I'll give you 3 wooden nickel for that there rotisserie chicken"
In this part of the country we have Dollar Tree stores where everything is a dollar. It is always fun to ask the clerk "How much is this, oh, well how much is this, I see, what about this?" Whenever they have thoroughly explained that everything is a dollar, buy a piece of candy or one of the other small items up front that are 2 or 3 for a dollar but don't say a word.
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I'll do this task extra hard for 50 points.