Any luck haggling over prices at Best Buy?

[jadedeath]

Originally Posted by Blinkman987

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Anyway, in response to why the comment about "third world country" was offensive- you have to be pretty dense to not understand why that comment was offensive and ignorant. Let's start with- is there a negative connotation assigned to either haggling or third-world countries? If so, where has it come from and is it justified? "Civilized" countries have committed some terrible human atrocities, even within the last 60 or so years. Just ask the Japanese, Black, Native American, or any woman.

Last time I checked, for starters I don't recall any 1st World Countries committing Genocide in the last 60 years. 62+ perhaps, ordinarily I wouldn't be a d*ck about it but you're getting your panties in a bunch over a joke.

As for Native Americans, I've got some choice words about that, to claim that you want to have your own government and your own area where noone else is allowed to live, then end up with problems in said areas and want extra money in order to fix it that's where I have the problem, our ancestors did some pretty crappy things to Native Americans, no disputing that, but the free handouts to help them out because of it have to end somewhere.

I fail to see where the Japanese have been victims of atrocities in the last 60 years. Care to fill the rest of the class in? If you're talking about the bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki {which again happened more than 60 years ago.} you might want to re-check what happened to Pearl Harbor before that happened.

But back to the point at hand.

If you are an underpaid overworked sales representative and you're told by your manager that said store that you can't hand out discounts to any joe-average that walks in and the price that's on the item is the price you sell it for {unless you want written or verbal warnings} then if joe-average comes in asking for discounts {which you can't give without jumping through hoops yourself} it'll serve to do nothing but annoy the associate.

Not to mention the fact that in many of these cases the discount that said customers are asking for is the only discount that the employee would get themselves so the bonus for working at said company is null and void, I certainly wouldn't want to work at a place where I only get a 10% discount on the purchases that I make at the store and I had customer after customer come in and ask for 10% off {for doing what exactly? not being a retard and slobbering on the electronics? fat chance} would you?

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