Sounds like typical nepotism at work. The guy can haggle with you for 10 hours because he isn't actually responsible for anything. His name/association is his t

Sounds like typical nepotism at work. The guy can haggle with you for 10 hours because he isn't actually responsible for anything. His name/association is his ticket One interesting thing about hardcore hagglers, they tend to be dumb. They don't actually know what anything is worth, they just want to win. They're more concerned with how much they can claim to have saved than what they're actually paying. Big companies take maximum advantage of this by setting a hugely inflated "list price" at 2-4x or more of a fair price. This enables them to provide large "discounts" which make the hagglers feel they've won while paying above fair price. This has the additional advantage of setting a discount watermark in the haggler's mind that everyone else will be expected to meet.