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I’m not much of a bargainer.\u00a0 I get uncomfortable haggling.\u00a0 I feel bad, my face gets pink, and (as described by my roommate) I look like I might cry.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It’s just not my personality to get aggressive, play games, and be demanding.\u00a0<\/p>\n

However, I gave it my best shot yesterday.\u00a0 Located down the street from my university is a four story bargaining mall.\u00a0 Nothing is taken at face value.\u00a0 When asking \u591a\u5c11\u94b1\uff1f(how much?) the initial price is grossly exaggerated.\u00a0 Since I do not blend in well in a crowd of Chinese people, the prices can sometimes be even higher when I ask.<\/p>\n

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After asking many different sellers what the cost of certain prices were, I gauged the average asking price to better calculate my first counter offer. This was difficult because I didn’t want to ask too low of an asking price and offend them.\u00a0 My Chinese is not good enough to dig myself out of that hole!<\/p>\n

Considering I’ve never haggled in English or Chinese, I got my roommate to help me.\u00a0 She definitely was more aggressive but I chimed in by looking offended when the price was too high.\u00a0 I really wanted a huge knitted scarf for when it gets cold outside.\u00a0 She started off by saying 55 kuai.\u00a0 I left paying 30 kuai (6 USD)!<\/p>\n

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There are so many knick-knacks, clothes, shoes, electronics, etc. for sale it is easy to get lost in the maze of little shops that seem to extend forever.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In getting lost, I was able to find the one and only rain jacket in the whole mall! It is green and I wanted it badly.\u00a0 I had to keep calm and show that I was only slightly interested though.\u00a0 When I asked for the price, the merchant said 160 kuai.\u00a0 There was no way I was paying that much so I immediately put the rain jacket back on the hanger to show that I was not that committed.\u00a0 I asked for 70 kuai.\u00a0 He laughed in my face.\u00a0 He went down to 130. I said 80. He kept repeating \u4e0d\u53ef\u4ee5 (I can’t) while I kept repeating \u6211\u662f\u5927\u5b66\u751f (I am a college student).\u00a0 He went down to 110.\u00a0 I said 95.\u00a0 He simply shook his head at me so I walked out of his little shop.\u00a0 I have never walked slower in my life but I finally felt a little tap on my shoulder. He said 95.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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This time, I walked blissfully away with a new jacket!<\/p>\n

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I’m not much of a bargainer.\u00a0 I get uncomfortable haggling.\u00a0 I feel bad, my face gets pink, and (as described by my roommate) I look like I might cry.\u00a0 It’s just not my personality to get aggressive, play games, and be demanding.\u00a0 However, I gave it my best shot yesterday.\u00a0 Located down the street from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/evacohnchina.summitbiztech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/evacohnchina.summitbiztech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/evacohnchina.summitbiztech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evacohnchina.summitbiztech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evacohnchina.summitbiztech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/evacohnchina.summitbiztech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/evacohnchina.summitbiztech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evacohnchina.summitbiztech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evacohnchina.summitbiztech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}