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    Pandemic pricing: Are Mideast markets losing the art of the deal?

    Jun 30, 2020 4 minutes
    Shemagh scarf salesman Bassam Arafeh stands at his unusually quiet stall in downtown Amman, June 17, 2020.

    This has a mark on it. How much will you take off?

    If I buy two, what price will you give me?

    Buy four, and there’s a special discount – just for you.

    Such phrases are as much a part of the soundtrack of the souk as crashing waves are at the beach.

    Haggling and bargaining – at times a blood-sport, at times a game of poker, at others a carefully choreographed tango with each side refusing to verbalize their true desire – have been the lifeblood of Middle Eastern marketplaces for centuries; some say millennia.

    It is a sport of necessity. Vendors

    “No one is engaging”To want it, you need to touch itStopgap measures

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