Icmeler Online Holiday Forum & Reviews - Turkey

Hi all

Do you all haggel or just pay the asking price If you have haggeled what was the best deal you got

Steve

Hi Steve

I love the banter with the Turkish people,and the haggling is part of the course,but i make sure i do it to the the point were i do not disrespect the people...they to have a living to be made,i find you can judge how far you can take it......just be switched on and enjoy the fun

Mike (Liverpool)

i was told by the owner of a hotel that i have used for the last few years that you should ask the price then offer half,if this is not excepted start to go lower still,dont know if this works probably not,never tried myself just cant be bothered with all that shopping stuff,theres far better things to be doing like drinking efes and sunbathing

Gud shout that ! will try my best to fit all of them in in 3 sleeps time

I bartered with a market trader for a lovely rosewood secret box - we wanted 25 lira for it and i said i would give him the 5...he just shook his head so i said 7 and began to walk, he ran after me and more or less threw the box at me but accepted 7...i then asked for a bag and think i got swore at !!!

The price i pay depends on the attitude of the seller...the more they hassle the less i will pay..simple really

You should always haggle, they expect it, like someone said before try not to pay the asking price, especially on the market.

for the people who have been visiting icmeler for a few years, dont you think that haggling is becoming harder, and the shop keepers are not willing to drop the price. ive only really noticed it this year, and have been going for 5 years

salkk wrote:for the people who have been visiting icmeler for a few years, dont you think that haggling is becoming harder, and the shop keepers are not willing to drop the price. ive only really noticed it this year, and have been going for 5 years

Or are we becoming softer, the thing is if it's not cheaper than you could buy in the UK why bother buying it, I often tell them I could buy the same for less in the UK, just walk away if the price is not right. Also look around compare prices before you commit. It's your money in the long run and they want it, make them work for it, but be fair,

i allways haggle over there my missus reckons im to hard on um... but the way i look at is if they want a sale they happly haggle 99% of the time.be carefull though as sometimes its not what it seems as a couple of times i agreed a price on say 9 tshirts for such and such only to find they had only put 7 in ect.worst one was in the weekly market haggled a deal on some boxer shorts to only find 5 pairs missing was not best pleased but on the whole there very nice people ho love a bit of banter

Yes be careful. One day when sat by the pool a street hawker walked around selling packs of 5 pairs sports socks (horrible white towelling things!). A lady nearby jumped up and started haggling like it was going out of fashion and eventually struck a deal.

Later that day she was walking round saying that she would never haggle again - she got 1 pair of socks and four other pairs of sock tops - frayed edges and all!!

There must be a moral to this - either dont haggle too far or dont buy off street hawkers!

i bought a beautiful leather chloe edith bag from the bazaar in marmaris it started at £75 after a lot of haggling he came down to £55 but i told him i lived there in the summer and would be back for more for my english friends i got it for £ 40 in the end .at the end of the day thay wouldnt sell it at that price if thay wer;nt making a profit. i did go back a few days later and bought 2 more bags from him at a very good price ,he was happy i went back,
and on since returning home i have compared my bags with real ones you cant tell the difference on a couple of them , one happy baglady

Always haggle but courteously. I would give one piece of advice - have a good idea of the currency. On my first trip to turkey (Bodrum) -everyone told me to haggle I went a bit too far though - offered about £1.50 for a pair of jeans. Needless to say I didn't get them but also managed to upset the market holder. i've learnt my lesson now. I haggle for the fun of it and because that's the way it works there - not to drastically reduce the price bcause they're brgains anyway - and people need to make a living.