Bargain fever
Subtitle: how to shop in a discounted world
By: Mark Ellwood
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 278
ISBN-13: 9781591845805
Subjects: Shopping; Consumer education
Description: A spirited investigation into the world of bargain hunting and how shoppers and sellers try to one-up each other -- from the haggling bazaars of Istanbul to Black Friday at a mall in upstate New York to pinnacles of global luxury such as Hermes and Louis Vuitton.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Your brain on sales; title: Couponmania; title: Purchase history; title: How the other half saves; title: Let's make a deal or you'll never pay retail again; title: Discountphobia : the mainstays of never marking down; title: The world on sale : bargaining at the bazaar and other stories; title: The future of bargain fever.