New Jetoy Supplier
November 28th 2011 21:00
Remember Bang!, the shop with no signage? Several weeks after my post about their lack of signage, they put up signs on both sides of their corner store, letting people know what they are called. My sister will be pleased as she has often wanted to know what the name of their shop was.
It also turns out they stock Jetoy products. Recently, they have little cat cards for a princely sum of $2.50 each. Since I was planning on buying several of them, I decided to haggle. I asked if the sales person could give me a better price if I decided to buy in bulk.
“How many?” he asked.
I plucked a figure from my head. Ten? Twenty? No, I already had some of the designs on other Jetoy products I had purchased. I decided to stick with ten for the meantime.
“That’s not bulk,” he said. “Bulk is one hundred.”
I went back to shuffling the card pile, trying to decide whether it would be better for me just to buy the whole lot. There must have been a hundred cards in that pile anyway.
The sales person said he could give me a 40% discount if I purchased a hundred of them.
Since I have a mortgage to pay, I decided to just buy four at a time, even though technically, I was ripping myself off. On the other hand, I didn’t have to pay for the ones with designs I already had so it might work out better for me anyway.
“It’s like how I buy American jelly beans,” said my sister, who likes to select her own flavours rather than just buying a box of mixed flavours. “It might work out to be more expensive but because I’m only buying flavours I like, there’s no waste.”
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