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I'm wealthy because I'm frugal, OP.

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I'm wealthy because I don't need much and can easily live on less. Doesn't includes haggling though. I see the price and decide to buy it or wait for another such item.
Op, the ones who haggle have some screw lose. I once drove many blocks to meet somebody- wasn't a big deals as I drive a lot. Once I got there, she only had $12 in coins, but the brand new shoes I was selling were $15. I was put in a position after having to drive there to feel super funny and walk away or take the $12 (well, partly in coins) and get the hell out.
Having to drive to them and then met with coins, showed that there was something wrong with the buyer. Somebody ahead explains that it's mental thing.
And no, she was not poor. Looking for the coins was well planned. Not selling anything after that, not worth it. If you sell on craigslist, people thing you are desperate and take advantage of it. I wasn't desperate- never have been, just wanted to get rid of crap. Only a few people show up on time and buy your stuff. Most play some kind of games.[/quote]
I’m sorry but if you drive many miles to sell one pair of $15 shoes that makes you desperate or stupid. You are probably burning $5 in gas plus your time.
Your behavior indicated that you time and energy was worthless. If I was the buyer I wouldn’t have offered more than $5. 
Before you answer that you didn’t do this for the money, if you want to do charity, do charity and donate. But, if you want to be a salesperson don’t be a stupid salesperson.[/quote]

It's funny - I think about this a lot. When I was a first year associate at a firm in New York, one of the senior associates, who was pregnant, told me about how she'd spent like 45 minutes driving to a far out baby store because she could save $10 on a stroller there. I was so surprised, and it also made me realize how much money stuff can just be ingrained (or taught, or whatever). Even then, $140k in debt from law school and 100% certain I wouldn't last more than a year or two in BigLaw, I wouldn't have spent half an hour trying to save $10 - but that is partly because I am bad with money, and partly because it's not how I was brought up, and partly because I consider my time to be worth more than that. I'm completely confident that senior associate made partner - she was great at the job - and is still squeezing pennies because it's just how she is, and she probably has monumental savings at least in part because of it. 20 years out I am just on the cusp of paying off my loans at long last - and even now, with a much more mature attitude toward money, I still probably wouldn't spend half an hour trying to save $10.

TL;DR: I think some people are just like that, regardless of their wealth.[/quote]

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