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标题: 一点讨价还价也能节约很多钱 [打印本页]

作者: yoyo530521 时间: 2009-2-25 14:34 标题: 一点讨价还价也能节约很多钱

天天商务英语词汇

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have high hopes (expression) 报有很大希望
解释	feel very confident

例句	When I joined the company, I had high hopes of becoming the next CEO.

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A little haggle can save a lot of cash
一点讨价还价也能节约很多钱

If you think a Blackberry is out of your financial reach, why not make a counteroffer? Haggling can be a powerful money-saver in this economy, but not many people are doing it in the U.S. Cash Peters tries it out at a few stores.

如果你觉得黑莓手机超出了你的财力范围，你为什么不还一下价呢？在时下的经济环境中，讨价还价可以节约很多钱哦，不过在美国这样做的人很少。Cash Peters在几家商店中进行了一番尝试。

Steve Chiotakis: Art, pottery, jewelry, clothing. If you've been to some markets outside of this country, you probably know that there's a little bit of negotiating that goes on during the sale. So in this economic fallout, are retailers here at home ready to bargain? We sent Cash Peters to find out.
Cash Peters: Things are really grim out there. Take Vlad Rifdin, for instance. He sells phones. Just not as often as he'd like.
Vlad Rifdin: People were telling me, after Christmas, as soon as everybody gets money in their pocket, they're gonna go crazy and buy phones. They didn't.
They didn't. Which means, though, you can get real bargains by haggling. How great is that? So I went -- ran, actually -- straight to my local lamp store to haggle for a ceiling fan that was on sale.
Lamp salesman: Well, it's on sale, so $179.95 would be an outstanding . . .
Peters: It's on sale for $179.95. I'm prepared to give you a hundred for it.
Lamp salesman: No, we don't sell it for a hundred dollars. If I'm not making any money behind it, why sell it?
Because any money's better than no money at all, basically. Next, I went to a lingerie store, to buy a silky, floral-pattern nightgown for . . . you know, a friend.
Peters: How much is this?
Lingerie lady: What's it, 80 bucks?
Peters: I will offer you 40 bucks for it.
Lingerie lady: Oh no.
Peters: Yeah but I'm customer, I'm king.
Lingerie lady: Doesn't matter, for me, I'm not going to give you half of price. Unless I'm so desperate, but I'm not desperate yet.
Touche, Lingerie Lady. Anyway, in theory haggling's great fun -- it's like shoplifting, only without the being arrested going to jail part. So why aren't more people doing it?
Woman: I just think haggling is such a time-consuming, ugly business.
Peters: I know, but if it gets you a bargain . . .
Woman: I don't want things that much.
This appeared to be going nowhere. Until I reached Broadway Square Verizon, an independent -- and very empty -- phone shop, and I tried to buy a $400 Blackberry for half price. From Vlad Rifdin.
Rifdin: I would probably be able to pull a couple of strings and do something about it.
Peters: Well here's the thing: Why don't you just sell your Blackberrys for $100, and then people would be flooding the store?
Rifdin: Because people are willing to pay a lot more for those Blackberrys.
Peters: So you charge $400, just because people will pay it.
Rifdin: Yeah.
Peters: But if they only pay $100, you'd charge $100.
Rifdin: Honest truth? Yes.
Wow. Feel like haggling now?

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