Orangutanion

ah can I not log into my .world account on .ee?

if it goes below 100 then I'm gonna celebrate

My issue with this is that barter and haggling is a very diverse practice that is seen differently across the world. All cultures do it in certain forms and in certain contexts, but both those concepts and how haggling is performed/perceived differ wildly. This in my opinion is a very solid question for general anthropology. Before the thread got removed, I was getting answers about all kinds of places, not just the Middle East.

One really good comment in that thread that is now removed mentioned that, when they went to Thailand, the merchants had a system where they would hand you a calculator with the price punched in and you would change that price and hand it back. They said that they entered in decimals that don't exist in Thai currency as a joke, and that the merchant seemed entertained. I don't think that I can get these kinds of answers from mass-posting on subs of a bunch of different countries--I wasn't even thinking of Thailand when I wrote the original post.

See, THIS kind of discussion is what I asked for. Good intentions and just trying to figure out the POV of the other culture. This hyper-puritanical moderation prevented this good discussion from taking place where it belongs.

Why punish me for this though? Nothing in the original thread was racist and I asked it in the way I thought would best avoid racist answers. The answers on the thread before it was taken down weren't racist either.

Here you go. All I wanted to know about was haggling in other cultures from their point of view.

Actually, I'm gonna go ahead and delete the reddit post. Here is the title and body of it for preservation purposes:

Are there any cultures where either today or historically it was considered rude NOT to haggle?

Like in the scene from Life of Brian, where he goes to buy something from a street vender, and when he pays the initial asking price the vender gets upsets and forces him to haggle. Does this happen in real life? I suppose in a culture where haggling is normal, if a vender intentionally sets a high initial price and then the person just pays it, they could feel like they were given too much money for the item. But money is money, you know?