You don’t directly haggle with retailers, but if $1200 is more than you want to spend, then you simply don’t buy the washing machine, and you look for an alternative like jerry rigging the one you already own, using the laundromat, or looking for a better deal from another seller. Not buying something is effectively haggling.
Washing machine prices have been going down since at least 1977, which is as far back as I can find data while I’m on mobile. From the US bureau of labor statistics you can see that laundry equipment priced at $500 in 1977 is now priced at $768. And, due to inflation, $500 in 1977 has the same buying power as $2647 today. In other words, washing machines have gone down in price about 70% in the last 50 years.
You don’t directly haggle with retailers, but if $1200 is more than you want to spend, then you simply don’t buy the washing machine, and you look for an alternative like jerry rigging the one you already own, using the laundromat, or looking for a better deal from another seller. Not buying something is effectively haggling.
When have washing machine prices ever gone down due to this? Not sales, the ticket price.
Washing machine prices have been going down since at least 1977, which is as far back as I can find data while I’m on mobile. From the US bureau of labor statistics you can see that laundry equipment priced at $500 in 1977 is now priced at $768. And, due to inflation, $500 in 1977 has the same buying power as $2647 today. In other words, washing machines have gone down in price about 70% in the last 50 years.