How to ask for discount at Yamada Denki
A skilled bargainer’s tips on how to get additional discount at the electronics store:
1) When you find the product that you want is reasonably priced, say that to the sales clerk.
2) Don’t target most popular products or color.
Aim at 2nd or 3rd favorite, and ask the sales clerk which color is NOT popular.
Chances are that unpopular colors remain unsold, and they can be discounted!
3) When you negotiate for discount, don’t speak how much you want to get discounted from the price tag. Other customers may hear that. Instead, just use your your fingers to hide the numbers in the price tag you want cut from the price, and ask if that price is acceptable.
4) Finally do a “Banzai” to express happiness when the odd price can get discounted.
People in Tokyo do not negotiate for discount. But if we get this skill, we can save extra money even though discount from each item is only a small amount of money. My father, who is from Osaka, often haggled at stores and I really felt ashamed of that when I was a kid. I didn’t understand that was part of Kansai culture. I thought he did that because he was miser or we were very poor or something…
Contributor Bio: Kirin is a Japanese woman spending her life so far somewhere around Tokyo. She now works from home and is also spreading Japanese kawaii culture and etc. through her popular blog, Tokyo Kawaii,etc.
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