I despise all those "look on the bright side" of the lousy economy stories, but hey if you can save a buck or two, why complain. Turns out, haggling is back. Just ask Lee Eisenberg, over at The Daily Beast:

But now that we are again living in a pushcart economy, we ought to get our act together. A big part of successful haggling—upmarket American-style—is knowing not just how but when a positional bargaining stance. On a macro level, today's dreadful economy is a great time generally to haggle for major appliances, cars, jewelry, and consumer electronics. For evidence, just go online and check out consumer blogs dedicated to those categories.But if your quarry is shoes, dresses, suits, any sort of expensive apparel, the time is not quite yet. The reason is that apparel stores have just set out their spring merchandise and retailers are, even in the teeth of a deep recession and against all odds, inveterate and irrational optimists, at least for these first few weeks of the new season.This I know because yesterday my wife accepted my commission to take a hondling expedition up and down Michigan Avenue and just turned over her notes....

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