Haggling

[buccal]

I'm thinking of picking up a single speed for mooching around town on the weekends.

As its not going to be my main bike i'd like to keep the purchase price relatively low or ideally pick up a bargin.

The question is, many shops (such as evans etc) have lots of sale bikes at the minute and i wondered whether offering below the sticker price is likely to be frowned upon?

Does anyone have any experience of haggling when buying a bike or is it not the done thing?

Cheers

[Gnarlybluesurf]

Why haggle when you could buy this:

http://www.decathlon.co.uk/EN/vitamin-117071608/

Has eyelets for pannier rack and mudguards should you want them and will be ideal for a hack around town... best thing is if it gets nicked you've not lost much and if you want to pimp it with different set ups you're cost are low to start with anyway....

[buccal]

Gnarlybluesurf said:

Why haggle when you could buy this:

http://www.decathlon.co.uk/EN/vitamin-117071608/

Has eyelets for pannier rack and mudguards should you want them and will be ideal for a hack around town... best thing is if it gets nicked you've not lost much and if you want to pimp it with different set ups you're cost are low to start with anyway....

Cheers, the only thing is there are even more of these round my area than the barclays bikes!

[Engineer1]

Does it matter you offer less than sticker, if they say yes you have saved money if they say no go for the cycling equivalent to mats, flaps and tax, so possibly a bottle cage and mudguards thrown in. The worst they can say is no, the best is yes either way you have lost nothing.

[Matt..]

There's nothing wrong with haggling, i really don't know why in this country people don't do it so much. I often haggle when purchasing higher value items from shops, and it usually works

[anonymous-user]

loads of specilazed langsters around on ebay and gumtree... should pick one up for around £300

if you want a new bike, most 2010 bikes will be reduced soon as 2011 stuff comes through in due time

[buccal]

Thanks for the replies. It was a langster i was after.

[mchammer89]

Langsters are great bikes, i've got one and I love it. The wheels aren't amazing though, i've replaced both of mine however I have been doing a lot of riding on mine for 3 years.

[Raven Flyer]

You should always haggle. Most LBS work on 100% margin.

As it's a single speed, they will know you are a geek and know you will be ste at haggling. You will be lucky not to get abused as they man handle you to the shop door.

[anonymous-user]

Raven Flyer said:

You should always haggle. Most LBS work on 100% margin.

As it's a single speed, they will know you are a geek and know you will be ste at haggling. You will be lucky not to get abused as they man handle you to the shop door.

you may not get a discount but they will probably through some skinny jeans and a courier bag in with the deal...

[CerbitonFlyer]

Raven Flyer said:

You should always haggle. Most LBS work on 100% margin.

Maybe on accessories and some parts they might but on bikes they are likely to be closer to 50% margin max. Still no harm in asking though, plenty of people did when I worked on the trade. If you don't ask you don't get