I heard quite a few times that we could and should haggle when purchasing a number of stuffs, especially electronics at the same time from those big stores, i.e. Yodobasi, Bic, etc.
It’s not particularly a huge amount in total, but I’m about to get various stuffs (from Yodobashi) for my new place, including 3 units of aircons. Is there a general reasonable benchmark to which we could ask them to lower the retail prices down to?
Edit : Pardon my ignorance. I believe we couldn’t haggle at Nitori? I’d probably spend quite a lot on furnitures too.
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I could haggle the camera whose price is around 50000 yen and I bought it for 45000 yen. (at Yamada denki) Maybe your case meet the requirements.
however, I think it is not general to try haggling at Nitori. I have heard episords about haggling at e;ectronics but I have never heard at Nitori. If you want to buy furniture cheeper, I suggest that you should try to buy online shoping.
I hope you can do nice shoping.
I think it depends on the type of appliances you are buying, if it’s already discounted model there would be less room for bargain.
Last couple months I purchased washing machines (display item) + 2 air con (1 was already heavy discount) at Softmap outlet, from my memory I got about 30K discount plus waiving the ~5K delivery fee.
Find the appliance on kakaku.com, show the lowest price listed for it to the staff you’re negotiating with, and they will usually either match it or come very close to it. I did it several times in Yamada Denki / Yodobashi, for fridges, AV amp, speakers, washing machine
Nowhere we went would match online prices (even their own store’s online price). Buying from the cheapest, reputable online store was way cheaper and less hassle. Aircon was about half the shop price. Traipsing round the shops is a mug’s game IMHO.
Depends on the store.
I was in Dospara, and I saw a gaming keyboard for 12,000, but the same keyboard on their own online store was 6,600 or something! I showed them it and he said he would check it. A few moments later, he came back and said they couldn’t match the price – It’s only online.
Now I don’t even bother going to physical stores anymore. Everywhere I look is always more expensive than online, unless I wanna see the product or need it ASAP.
Nojima always matched the lowest online prices. I would get them to match the most expensive item I wanted and then after they gave me their price I would offer them a new price for that item and all the other items I wanted.
When I went to buy my Washer/Dryer my gf had a friend at the time who particularly thought it would be funny to pretend to haggle but we actually got the price down unintentionally by a few Man . I guess the normal way and using kakaku too lol.