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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Business
Vicky Shaw

How to haggle and negotiate for a better deal, according to an expert

Everyone loves a bargain – but many people could be missing out on snapping one up, by not knowing where to start.

Two-fifths (39%) of us admit to feeling too awkward to even try attempting to drive down the price of items in the first place, new research by Gumtree has found. And three in 10 (30%) feel that, as a nation, we don’t know how to get a good bargain through the art of bartering or haggling.

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