We have some online platforms both for selling or giving away items too - Facebook Marketplace, Craigslist, Nextdoor, Buy Nothing, Freecycle, eBay. I have both received and bought and given away and sold many items that way!
But we don't have the discount culture, the only haggling is at car dealerships. There are coupons though, and sales.
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I see, I liked to buy from eBay and Amazon, but they added sanctions and the only way is to use an Iranian website which does the middleman's work and it takes more money and also it might takes longer time to receive your stuff, so it is hard to buy from those websites, I think this is how our inside online markets started their business, like instead of Amazon, we have Digikala. I will check the other platforms you mentioned just to learn more about them.
I didn't know about haggling in car dealerships, so there is something similar, interesting :).
You can haggle at a pawn shop too. You have to do it at a car dealership or they will rob you blind, so people who are bad at negotiating often ask friends or family to come haggle for them when they buy a car. But in many places if you ask for a discount they will be insulted, so this is why a lot of people are bad at it, because it's so rare to do it here. I have never bought a car, and the one time I bought an instrument from a pawn shop, I didn't haggle at all. 😂
I didnt know about Pawn shop and I once saw it in an old European movie from 1966, so it still exist, interesting. I understand what you mean, I also cant say it in specific places, like if I go to a Piano shop I cant ask for that. But only in places like that website I usually can say like when people sell something on Wall platform. 😂 Even sometimes when I am in hurry I have no other ways but selling off price so they will come and buy sooner.
I think this culture of Haggling still exist even in crypto world and specially in trading, when people buy or sell, they dont talk but they put numbers like if someone sell high or low. Until one of them decide to choose sometimes off price and some times high price.
Thank you for informative post and comments my friend. 🙂