Bargain fever : how to shop in a discounted world /
Mark Ellwood
- New York, N.Y. : Portfolio/Penguin, c2013.
- viii, 278 p. ; 24 cm.
Your brain on sales -- Couponmania -- Purchase history -- How the other half saves -- "Let's make a deal" or you'll never pay retail again -- Discountphobia : the mainstays of never marking down -- The world on sale : bargaining at the bazaar and other stories -- The future of bargain fever.
An investigation into the world of bargain hunting and how shoppers and sellers try to one-up each other, from the haggling bazaars of Istanbul to Black Friday at a mall in upstate New York to pinnacles of global luxury such as Hermes and Louis Vuitton.