My friend wanted to donate fruits and vegetables to an orphanage on the occasion of his father's ceremony. So he approached a fruit vendor who was selling water melons and bannanas. That vendor was known for arrogance in that locality. He always treated his customers with a contempt. It was 3.00 p.m. afternoon. A few customers came to the spot and bought fruits. Initially, he demanded Rs.20 / kg very few drew courage to start bargain. But, many withdrew themselves fearing expletives from him.
My friend got enraged over the behaviour of the fruit vendor. A plan was hatched that he sent some decoys in the form of "buyers" to the fruit vendor's place. They demanded water melons for rock bottom price. Initially, the fruit vendor gave them a verbal bashing. Unabashed over the incident, my friend sent next wave of decoys to "buy" fruits . Again same treatment was meted out. My friend intention was to destablise him and then bring him or make him to accept the quoted price .
After these incidents, a kind of confusion had set in the mind of the fruit vendor. Whether to quote the fixed price or bring down the price. My friend is a good mind reader. He said to me "still, the fruit vendor has not made up his mind EK AUR DHADKHA DHILAANA PADEGA". Third wave of decoys were sent to the fruit vendor. To everyone surprise, he didn't say anything he just pleaded the "buyers" to get away from the scene.
My friend said "that the time is "ripe" to bargain with the fruit vendor". Because he understood the situation that the fruit vendor was in no mood to continue shop for the day as he wanted to sell off the products as earlier as possible.
He went to the fruit vendor and asked water melons for Rs.8/kg to which vendor accepted the deal . My friend bought 20kgs @ Rs.160.
Therby he saved Rs.240 and he said always cultivate a habit to say NO at the first instance because if you accept anyone/anything without a proper scrutiny you will land in trouble. At last, his patience had paid off.
