How I paid 900 Euros for a Moroccan Carpet, or Short Treaty on How NOT to Negotiate, or An Expensive Introduction to the Concept of ‘Barakha’ June 3, 2009 8 Comments
Him (that would be the seller, a blue-robed middle aged man with rotted teeth from the ubiquitous syrupy mint tea they drink litres of in Morocco): ‘No problem, no disturbance, if you buy, I win and you win, you don’t buy, I don’t lose and you don’t lose’. This after he has spread about 15 [...]