Haggling quite common quick transactions rude
Q. Why are people from India always trying to return things to get a better deal reuse their coupons or use coupons fraudulently? – Tatyanna white Illinois
Q. Why do people from India haggle so much? Is there advice on how to deal with these people in a better way? – Doug Omaha Neb.
Replies
# India is poor and people have always been taught to save as much as they can. – Pratichi 18 Indian female Pune India
# Bartering not only hurts the business it hurts employees and the CEO. – Sam Lewisville Texas
# In India if you bargain you might get a discount. Most shops here are small operations. Keep calm and tell them it is a fixed price. – Jatin 32 Indian male Delhi India
# Who wrote this is an ignorant —. If you haven’t traveled the world to see how others live it’s your problem. – Indian Connecticut
Expert says
Gunjan Bagla of India trade consultant Amritt Ventures www.theindiaexpert.com gave us the deal on all this.
Dudes in Asia – from Japan to the Middle East and in between – have built relationships based on negotiating for eons said Bagla author of Doing Business in 21st-Century India. Europeans and Americans are the ones doing it a more direct new way.
Culturally it’s part of the conversation and is not considered rude. In fact a quick transaction is thought cold.
The commerce heritage of India for example isn’t based on mass-market retail stores but on interacting with small shop owners. That means conversing about price.
There is always that tendency to want to figure out how one can stretch a buck.
Some academics argue that decades of British rule led to impoverishment in India hence individuals’ need to seek value at all turns. And research by Angus Maddison professor emeritus of economics at the University of Groningen in The Netherlands shows India’s share of world GDP dropped from 24 percent in 1700 to less than 3 percent by the time it gained its independence in 1947.
Regarding coupon misuse some Indians new to the States may see them as a proxy for the dialogue they’re used to having with clerks Bagla said. But folks who state that mostly Indians abuse them may be seeing what they want to see.
Aberrant behavior … can get noticed more if it’s from someone different from us.
Bottom line: Indians generally seek deals — at all levels he said. Hard to argue that one when you consider that in 2006 rather than build a ship the Indian Navy bought the 35-year-old USS Trenton from the United States for a song – 48.4 million.
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