I visited a site where a woman was talking about her adventures in haggling.

I’m a shy person when talking with someone I don’t know or talking over the phone, but for some reason I’m fascinated with people who can do this. Imagine being able to walk into a furniture store and asking for 30% off a sofa chair, or getting $200 off from a bedroom set. You never know unless you ask, right? Haggling happens a lot in other countries, according to sources I’ve read from. Why is haggling such a funny notion here?

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People who regularly hunt down the best deals and use coupons may save a little more money simply by offering a rate they are more comfortable with. I think the idea is to help the business sell the product to you. If you walk out the door without buying anything, it’s not a good deal for the store owner. I think they’d rather offer a small discount than sell nothing at all.

When it comes to haggling, the secret seems to be knowing the price ahead of time, knowing what competitors are selling for, and knowing what 30% off is or what amount you may ask off before you walk into the store, or have a reasonable idea. This isn’t just for car sales, most store will haggle.

That is, of course, if you aren’t being a jerk about it. Play nice and you’ll probably get what you’re asking for.

I found a great online video about how to haggle:

If you have haggling secrets, leave some tips here. I’d love to learn.

This is a supplement to the Samsung Exclaim Personal Ringtone article I wrote. There is more information at the article about how to do this, so go there to read and if you need the video, that is now provided. Thanks for watching and let me know if you have any questions.

This is how to make video ringtones, which is how you make ringtones for the Exclaim. This should also work for the Samsung Rant, as it should have the same software that is provided by Sprint.

Remember that you are trying to upload the video ringtone that you make to your memory card. That’s the one you want to do. You may need a memory card reader to hook up to your computer in order to do this right.

Honestly, why would you even want to pay an extra $50 or more a month just for television? If you have high speed Internet access, everything you need is online. Plus more! And I can pause and fastforward and rewind and all that fancy stuff that TiVo owners can do, too.

1. YouTube – Many of the video makers at YouTube are very talented and are just as entertaining as a lot of shows online.
2. The Guild/Dr. Horrible – You can get online for free. Nuff said.
3. Hulu – Free TV shows, nice quality, watch at any time, and limited commercials.
4. Netflix – They are now getting many TV shows and movies hosted on their service online, so you can watch instantly. No commercials, and anything they don’t happen to have online right now they will send you the DVD for.
5 – 10. Every other video website on the Internet. Srsly. There’s a ton. And you couldn’t go through all of them in a life time I bet. More are added every day.

The Guild

If you get through all of those, and you still have free time… get out of the house, dude/babe.

+5 to Sexterity!