Sales and Bargaining
Translated with the help of AI.
Through one purchase after another, all I have felt is helplessness, and that I am very foolish.
Bought a flat… felt I didn’t know how to negotiate… felt the agent had misled me.
I don’t blame anyone else; I just feel very stupid. I always knew you can’t take a salesperson at their word, and I had my guard up, but… things still happened that left me unwilling to accept them. The conclusion: don’t get friendly with sales people… and never believe what they say… always compare across three shops.
Bought various packages at the wedding expo… The bargaining was genuinely unpleasant: a thirty-to-sixty-minute tug of war for the sake of a measly 5 to 10%.
Why can’t prices just be clearly marked? Why must we exhaust each other’s minds on something that benefits neither side? All for the psychological “sweetener”… the psychological “thrill”.
Shopping: spent the money, spent the effort, and got back endless helplessness and resentment.