My question is, what are your rules for yourself when it comes to pricing? If you see a bottle you want, how much money would stop you from getting it, and why? What amount of money makes you walk away from a deal that you want?
In the buy/sell/swap groups on Reddit and elsewhere, I see so much haggling over pretty small amounts of money, and I’ve definitely done it myself too. I was recently thinking about how it normally takes me a few years or more to go through one bottle, since I have 20 different fragrances I alternate. I will never remember that $20 (or even $50…) three years from now.
And don’t get me wrong, but even if I spent $300 too much on a bottle to buy it retail from Saks… I know that’s a LOT of money… but I could make it back over the entire life of that bottle (3 years? More?) just by choosing to cook for my family two extra times per year instead of order out for dinner.