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> Even expert negotiators struggle with airport Rolex purchases. You might get 30-35% off other luxury watch brands at airports, but with Rolex, expect 20% or l
by smelendez 1y ago
> Even expert negotiators struggle with airport Rolex purchases. You might get 30-35% off other luxury watch brands at airports, but with Rolex, expect 20% or less – “probably less” as industry experts say. Many frequent flyers say they’ve never seen any Rolex discounts at airports.
I wouldn’t have realized you could negotiate price on anything sold in the airport. I didn’t know you could negotiate on new, high end watches in general, though, to be honest.
And yeah, I’ve never understood the people who buy duty free booze, etc. The prices never looked particularly good, and it’s going to be another thing to wrangle and schlep home when you land. I always assumed it was targeted at people from other countries with higher prices.
- RandomBacon 1y agoIf an item isn't being scanned by barcode by a cashier, then it can probably be negotiated.
- bravetraveler 1y agoThe DMV really doesn't appreciate my attempts
- KingMob 1y agoIf they won't negotiate on price, consider negotiating for upgrades. Ask for an extra year on a license, or to be certified for commercial trucking. ...I joke, but in Thailand, where driving schools can administer the driving tests, not just the DMV, people do shop around for driving schools for various reasons.
- ssl-3 1y agoEven then: Things can be negotiable. Haggling can be rejected, but that's not a hard-and-fast rule. (It's anecdotal, but: During my brief time in big-name department store retail, one of my duties was operating a cash register. All cashiers there were able to discount anything by up to, IIRC, 30% -- without getting any special approval. It just took a few button presses.)
- doubled112 1y agoI think we were allowed to discount products up to 10% when I was a computer technician in a big retail store. I always felt it would be frowned upon, it wasn't something we did often. Services, though, were very flexible. Nobody was looking at the receipt, just the work order. 80% of something beats 100% of nothing every time.
- RandomBacon 1y agoTrue, I think I could do up to 5% when I worked as a cashier ("team leads" could do 10%, and managers for anything more than that). No ever asked me, but I probably would have tried if I knew it was under 5%.
- asdff 1y agoThe real savings are on the cartons of cigarettes.
- GJim 1y ago> I’ve never understood the people who buy duty free booze, etc. Presumably you come from a country with low taxes on alcohol. Come to Norway, but do yourself a favour and stock up on duty free fags and booze first.
- euroderf 1y agoAnd if you go to Iceland, take advantage of the duty-free for arrivals. The limits are kind of low but nobody seems to check them too closely.