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Oh please no. I hate haggling. My time shouldn't be spent worryin if I left 10% on the table. This is the reason Amazon is killing eBay, and now they to introduce the same tired tactics.

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Yeah. I really dislike the "not sold by Amazon" stuff, complete with seller ratings. I really don't want to have to comparison shop sellers and choose the one least likely to fuck up my order. I just want to order from Amazon, who I know won't give me hassle.

I love it. I buy a lot of used blu-ray discs for $0.01 or $0.99, with the $2.99 or $3.99 shipping fee of course to compensate for the overly low price. Ultimately I find incredible bargains versus paying $12-$20 for the same disc new. The ratings make it easy to find sellers that are reputable to buy used discs from. I also personally find this to be far less chaotic than digging through eBay.

I do the same with books and vidoegames.

Pretty much this, I almost always buy stuff sold by amazon, even if it's a slightly higher price.

The ones that are shipped from an Amazon warehouse are usually not bad. It's less likely to be screwed up at that point. I noticed that ebay is now allowing you to send your items to their warehouse in the same fashion.

So amazon is borrowing from ebay and ebay is borrowing from amazon.

Haggling for stuff you want can be really fun, haggling for stuff you need is usually horrible, especially if the seller realises how much you need it.

> Haggling for stuff you want can be really fun

This is a personality... um... "quirk" on your part.

Not really, it's probably culturally dependent. Haggling is common in lots of places. Even here in my western European country, where it's mostly gone, I know many people who enjoy it and proudly display their deals. Then again, the salesman in Tintin is from my country ;)

It's not that different from playing poker, it's just more informal.

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