Frazz by Jef Mallett for August 21, 2013

Nicely done story line.

this has been really entertaining.

Either you’re just trying to get rid of excess stuff, or you’re concerned about the money. Either way, haggling makes sense. If you’re just trying to get rid of junk, the person who lowballs your price is still taking it off your hands, so you win. If you care about the money, then you set your initial price higher than your rock-bottom, and sometimes get it, instead of always settling for your rock-bottom price.

I feel the same way as you. I hate to haggle. But I once heard a psychologist explain it this way: When negotiating anything, from the price of merchandise to assigning household chores, always start out asking for at least twice what you want. If you start by asking for the minimum, then you’ll feel like you’re being fair, but you’ll be perceived as stubborn and inflexible. But if you ask for more than you want and let yourself be talked down, you’ll be perceived as fair and open to compromise. You might even end up getting more than you expected, and the person you’re negotiating with will walk away with the happy feeling that they’ve gotten a great deal. Everybody wins.

I agree with cartoon critic 2544 and patsysutcliffe. Well done.

Um…then how’d she get the “Mrs.”?

Naw. Just an incident in another day in the life of EMT’s..(probably)

I just want to know if she ended up with fewer coffee cups or if she has to rent yet another storage locker

There are places in this world where you are not only EXPECTED to make a counter offer, but it’s considered quite rude not to do so. Until the advent of national chain stores at the begining of last century prices were rarly “set in stone”, and frankly the only way they took hold was to have sales or coupons to make customers feel like the merchandise was valuable. .Don’t belive me just ask JC Penny’s how the whole “lower prices and stop the constant sales” thing worked out for them..So, in this country, if you want to haggle, person to person sales are almost the only places left to do that. If you don’t want to haggle, then make that quite plain or EXPECT those who do want to, to try. And realize it’s not a form of insult, any more than your unwillingness to is.

Holy crap! why does he waste the first two panels recapping the summer’s plot?!!?