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Asking The Price and Bargaining

The document presents a dialogue between a customer, Shirley, and a shopkeeper discussing the price of cotton material. It includes various expressions for asking about prices and bargaining, as well as phrases for sellers to accept or refuse bargaining. The dialogue illustrates the negotiation process in a shopping context.

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Asking The Price and Bargaining

The document presents a dialogue between a customer, Shirley, and a shopkeeper discussing the price of cotton material. It includes various expressions for asking about prices and bargaining, as well as phrases for sellers to accept or refuse bargaining. The dialogue illustrates the negotiation process in a shopping context.

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Asking the price and Bargaining

¶ Read the following dialogue:

Shirley: This is nice material. What is it?


Shopkeeper: It's cotton.
Shirley: How much is it?
Shopkeeper: It's very good material. It's four dollars a metre.
Shirley: Four dollars! That's too expensive. But it's very
attractive.
Shopkeeper: How much can you pay, madam?
Shirley: I'll pay three dollars a metre.
Shopkeeper: I'll make a special price for you, madam.
Three dollars seventy five a metre.
Shirley: How about three dollars fifty?
Shopkeeper: Just for you, madam. Three dollars fifty cens a metre.

The italic sentences above are expressions to ask about the price and bargain.

Here are expressions for asking about prices:

How much is it?


How much does it cost?
How much is this book/sweater/dress/etc?
How much is that altogether?
How much will that be altogether?

If you as customer do bargaining you could use these expressions:

How about .................dollars?


Can you make it lower?
Can you lower the price?
Can you give me a discount?
Is there any discount?
That's too expensive, how about..............?
Oh, that's rather expensive, how about...................?
Is there any discount for this dress/shirt/sweater/etc?

What do you say if you as a seller accept the bargaining? To accept the bargaining we use such
expression as:

Yes, I'll give you a .................% discount.


That's ok.
Well, just a little.
Just for you, madam/sir...................

And you could use the expressions below if you as a seller refuse the bargaining:

I'm sorry, it's the fixed price.


I'm afraid we can't bargain.
I'm sorry, we don't put discount on this product.

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