Sentences with phrase «haggling over»

The New York Post reports that insurers» haggling over hurricane - related claims has forced Big M, the operator of Mandee and Annie Sez chains, to file for Chapter 11 this week.

Haggling over minor items is a sure - fire way to kill a deal, he said.

The first negotiation of a transaction doesn't come when you're facing the opposing agent across a conference table, haggling over the price of a home.

That strategy was genius I enjoyed hearing that as well, what I like about it is that since the buyer does not know what you want for the house there would seem to be no haggling over the price they will tell you what they would pay if its over you are good, in a case where the offer is not over your price Aaron do you start to negotiate on that or not can you give an example of that when it happens or if it has.

Why is it that only real estate and cars are sold by haggling over price?

India Haggling over price is common in many countries, but in India you can haggle for almost everything.

After several minutes of us haggling over various clauses in the agreement with the other agent and his buyer, we were down to the final item, price.

The example they give is that of a customer and the owner of an antique store haggling over the price of a vase in which one starts with a high price and one with a low price each moving towards the middle until they get stuck where neither of them wants to budge anymore and no one is happy.

Think of an experience purchasing a car, where a person is likely to spend hours haggling over the price, the features, the warranty, the interest on the loan; finally, exhausted after a full day of back - and - forth with the car salesman and possibly not thinking straight, an agreement is made which may or may not address actual needs.

But, as with all types of legislation, it appears we've now reached the sausage - making phase — lots of back - and - forth between members of Congress and haggling over small details.

It also means you don't have to worry about not getting paid, haggling over prices or no - shows

There is no need to spend your weekends haggling over a price and visiting provider after provider in your area.

For example, if an injured victim of an accident you are found liable for needs $ 100,000 worth of medical treatment to recover from injury and your policy only includes the minimum $ 25,000 in coverage, you most certainly will find yourself in court haggling over the rest.

If it seems worthwhile, get several estimates on the total costs of the work before haggling over the price.

Since the pricier the mortgage, the costlier the fee, it's worth haggling over the price with your lender — but, like the factors that help you qualify for the loan, those with excellent credit scores and solid incomes are in the best position to successfully strike a deal for a lower rate.

If you like your coverage already, what could possibly be gained by calling insurance companies and haggling over policies?

But let's face it: raising the scholarship issue and haggling over terms is good training for future lawyers.

Dworkin's concern is that moving in that direction creates a lot of new space for haggling over not only those new rights, but also over the original rights.

As a result, there is unnecessary haggling over bills rather than engaging in discussions that clarify expectations and strengthen relationships.

And, unlike with many breakups, there was no haggling over property.

Like Shaw, we are merely haggling over a price.

We know there's been lots of haggling over the use of corn as bio-polymer (the argument is that some producers are using genetically - modified crops, a potentially hazardous resource), but we think the basic idea remains a good one.

Tomorrow's meeting with House Democrats marks the first time he will be face to face with the committee members haggling over the sticky details of climate legislation.

Now we're just haggling over the price...

«If you look at Africa, we don't have indigenous peoples per se, because the indigenous peoples concept is grounded in historical circumstances,» he says, pointing out that most (but not all) indigenous rights campaigns focus on South America, where Spanish and Portuguese «exotics» and the native South Americans — the «indigenous» — have been haggling over resource rights for centuries.

The developed nations have been in agreement with this principle for a long time, but the haggling over the details and amounts of assistance has been prolonged and intense.

In 1977, Congress tried to close the loophole by requiring older facilities to clean up as soon as they underwent major modifications, but that just led to scorched - earth haggling over what counted as «major.»

Otherwise, the process is likely to unravel into prolonged haggling over a new pact's rules of the road, much as the 1997 Kyoto Protocol did.

With their unequivocal endorsement of carbon taxes, Legarde and Lee add to the pressure on UN climate negotiators to end two decades of fruitless haggling over national level emissions limits and to focus explicitly on pricing carbon pollution instead.

Clearly, we are in for many more years of haggling over placement of solar and wind farms and so forth.

Leonardo DiCaprio spent more than 45 minutes in a private room haggling over the price of an $ 850,000 Basquiat drawing at Art Basel Miami.

Haggling over a few dollars might seem like a waste of time if you're on a short weekend getaway.

I do not carry «grades» of gear, no haggling over levels of snorkel gear and prices, we only carry the best, for a great price.

You can lose yourself for hours in the winding backstreets and spend your day haggling over colourful cloths, shoes and brightly coloured clothing.

Flexible Pricing Yes, it is time to offer flexible pricing on freshwater livestock, but it is not the time to advertise this — unless employees have a lot of time to spend haggling over prices.

26.3 % of respondents have been successful at haggling over bank fees, and customers fully expect a bank to waive a mistaken fee immediately.

If we're trying to explain outcomes in a situation where people are haggling over price, the opening offer accounts for 80 % of explained variance in the actual outcome.»

My first experience haggling over prices in a foreign land was a miserable failure.

In addition, these online lenders provide you with loans that are pre-approved, which gives you bargaining power when you go car shopping (loan in hand) than waiting on dealer financing to go through and haggling over the price.

It means already forged relationships with booksellers, critics and other writers — and it means more time to write, rather than haggling over the costs of a book cover design or editing.

Because haggling over the price of e-books is more important than demanding that more effort be put into saving kidnapped girls from ruthless armed men who would use them as slaves.

Swift process without a bunch of haggling over price.

I discovered the trip computer accidentally, yet another nice feature... Best of all I did my haggling over the internet, and had the deal done before I arrived at the dealer, I was in and out in 45 minutes (a new record for purchasing a new car).

I (the wife) hate the sometimes overwhelming experience of car buying - from the salesmen trying to talk you into an upgraded vehicle to the haggling over price.

Fit and finish are very good, as I would expect from Saturn, and most people already know that the buying experience at Saturn stores is a no - pressure, no - hassle approach in which sales people dwell upon the features of the product, rather than haggling over price.

Our Market Based Pricing ensures that our customers always receive an excellent value without spending excessive amounts of time haggling over the price.

I have bought 8 cars in my life and I always hated going to the dealership and waiting 5 - 6 hours haggling over price or the salesman just taking so much time getting financing or all type of stuff.

I expected to spend two or three hours... at a dealership haggling over everything from vehicle pricing and availablilty to financing.

to the dealership, we expected a long day, haggling over prices, options, and resisting the «nudging» by the salesperson to move up to a more expensive trim or a car.

Although legislative conference committees were haggling over seven of nine budget appropriations bills, a measure appropriating $ 40 million less than many state educators had anticipated for the public schools was not one of them.