All about bargaining:

Bargaining is an integral part of life for many. But for some it isn't. It's a way of life for some. It's below
their dignity to bargain for some. This is not a value judgement on bargaining. It's just my 2 cents for the bargaining
community.
I make it a point not to bargain with small time vendors, where the few extra rupees is all they carry home at the end of
the day eg vegetable vendor, fruit vendor, roadside hawker… Do we bargain at the Raymonds showroom? Do we bargain at
the electronic appliance showroom? Do we bargain at the new Car showroom? We don't mostly. Even if we do we get 100 rupee
off on a 10000 rupee item. We tend to bargain 50 ps on a 5 rupee item with a small time vendor. Is it fair?
Display your intelligence, your prowess in squeezing out the big timers. Of late that is the class of vendors I am targeting.
At some point there's this guilty feeling that arises out of bargaining with the small time vendors. Neither are they going to built
mansions and towers with the extra amount we pay nor are we going to build the same with that extra amount we save! Ultimately,
I would look at the worthiness of the thing I am buying, fix a price and stick to it.

Stick to measure - Yardstick!

How would it be if I have a foot scale which measures differently from the foot scale you have? Doesn't it sound
absurd? Why? Bcos it is a foot scale, something which we can see, which we can feel and perceive. But have we
ever realized that every day, every minute we are using different yardsticks for measuring the same thing?
It doesn't sound absurd, doesn't appear that something is wrong. Why? Bcos we aren't able to perceive, to feel?
Well, someday, someday the whole setup of our life fails. Life crashes. We are caught unawares. Actually, we are
Caught not wanting to be aware. Why? Accounts had to be settled. Yardsticks had to be standardized.
The extra portions of the yardstick had accumulated and has fallen, on our own head. And fallen irredeemably.
There is no philosophy in this for those who refuse to believe in it. It is pure science. Natural Science!
Beware of the yardstick.