Haggling is acceptable in Canada/USA with most large purchases. Cars, houses, hand-made furniture, bulk purchases, building leases, etc. Haggling is generally n

Haggling is acceptable in Canada/USA with most large purchases. Cars, houses, hand-made furniture, bulk purchases, building leases, etc. Haggling is generally not accepted only when it doesn't scale well, which also has the advantage of greater transparency and fairness in those cases. In line with the above, private sellers are generally amenable to haggling because it doesn't matter that it doesn't scale. So when buying a used anything on Kijiji, haggling is expected, particularly if it says "OBO" (or best offer), but not if it says "firm". If the price is set semi-arbitrarily at the time of purchase, like some U-pick auto junkyards, the person setting the price is right there anyway, so haggling may be acceptable. I haven't researched any of this; this is just my intuition from experience.