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haggle with (someone)

To try to bargain with someone, often over a price. Good luck haggling with any of the merchants at the marketplace—they wouldn't lower their prices at all for me.

haggle about (something)

To try to reach an agreement with someone, often over a price. You can try to haggle about their prices, but none of the merchants would lower them for me.

haggle over (something)

To try to reach an agreement with someone, often over a price. The person one is haggling with can be named between "haggle" and "over." You can try to haggle over their prices, but none of the merchants would lower them for me. Sonny, don't try to haggle with me over these prices.

haggle about something

to bargain or negotiate about something. They are always willing to haggle about the price, so don't take the first price you're given. I wish you wouldn't try to haggle about everything when we shop.

haggle (with someone) over someone or something

and haggle with someone (over someone or something)

to argue with someone over someone or something. I don't want to haggle with you over Tom and whose team he's going to be on. Let's not haggle over the price. There is no point in haggling with her.

haggle over

To bargain or negotiate over something, as an item or a price: The merchant and the buyer haggled over the price of the damaged towels.

See also: haggle, over

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But the research found four in ten consumers have not haggled with any service provider in the last 12 months with contracts for mobile phones, broadband and car breakdown cover being rolled over without question.

Loyal Brits losing [pounds sterling]725 a year for being too nice - how to put a stop to it; One in 5 motorists allow their car insurance to roll over every year but they could save [pounds sterling]50 just by picking up the phone and haggling with their provider to get the price down

Just less than half said they haggled abroad because they thought it was what was expected.

RECORD money: Foreign dealing saves Brits pounds 3.5bn

Alliance & Leicester Personal Loans recently carried out a survey that found that 68 per cent of people who recently bought cars had haggled the price down.

Haggle your way to savings on forecourt

But only 18 per cent of those surveyed by AA Insurance claimed they haggled for things back home.

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Just under half said they haggled abroad because they thought it was what was expected, and 17% said arguing to lower the price of what they were buying came naturally to them, according to AA Insurance.

Haggling Britons save pounds 3.5bn on foreign trips

Just under half said they haggled abroad because they thought it was what was expected, and 17 per cent said arguing to lower the price of what they were buying came naturally to them, according to AA Insurance.

Haggle and save fortune

magazine and Sainsbury's Bank shows car buyers could save themselves a whopping pounds 3 billion a year -that's pounds 1,200 per vehicle -if they lost a bit of British reserve and haggled.

SOCIAL STYLE: Talk is cheap; We are happy enough to haggle on holiday but most of us are too scared to try it at home. Nick Foley reveals why we should not be shy about asking for a price cut

Consumer help website MoneySavingExpert compiled a list of the top 10 major retailers where people are most likely to have successfully haggled, after asking around 2,500 people about their experiences in negotiating a more favourable deal.

Best stores to haggle for bargain

But I've never haggled in a UK shop before and I'm nervous as I walk into B&Q in Huddersfield.

Your Life: HAGGLE like a pro! CONSUMER You might have talked your way to a bargain in a foreign market on holiday, but would you do it at home? Here's how and where to try it.

Geordies are the nation's most prolific hagglers with 70% stating they had haggled on purchases.