Was I being unreasonable trying for a 73p discount

[NisekoWhistler]

Just picked up 6.2kg turkey, it came to £89.73 so I said got the butchers, is that £89 then? He flatly refused.
Yes yes I know you wouldn't try this in waitrose but neither would you have to pay £14.50 a kg (my husband's decision to use this butchers, not mine)

Was I being unreasonable to consider asking?

allertse I'm too shy ever to haggle IRL, but if I were to, I think I'd be more embarrassed haggling if the price was already very low!

Yes I'd have said no too because if you can afford that much you can afford the 73p. If you looked a poor little person buying a scrag end I would have said yes but they would have been too proud to ask.

Nah you where not doing any harm asking.
I know local businesses who leave off odd pence on a bill.

Him charging for giblets on the other hand...what the hell?

I hope for that price it fucking walked itself to the car and made the gravy by itself as well!

I hope for that price it fucking walked itself to the car and made the gravy by itself as well!

Are you aware of what a BUTCHER does?

If it did any of the above, a discount would be justified

@Mumof56
^^ comment of week award!

I’m a vegetarian so clueless about the price of meat. Is this a normal cost? How many people would you feed for £90.00

This is Mumsnet, so I'm sure someone will be along to tell you they can make it stretch through the end of December and all of January. 😉😁

I would die rather than ask my butcher for a discount! I spend lots of money there so I do get money off, free stuff and first refusal on the best deals, but I'd never ask for it.
I don't eat turkey anyway (or rather I do, but only when I can be arsed to hatch and rear them myself) but I'd feel ridiculous for asking for a discount of 73p.

I'm a haggler especially if I'm buying a fair few things but it's more of a, 'If I get all these can you do it for x amount?', there's often a bit of good-natured to-ing and to-ing, but I've never had an outright no.

I'll also ask for discounts for a bit of superficial damage or a small mark on clothing, DD needed a Christmas jumper and the only one in her size that she liked had got a bit caught in the display and the waistband was slightly crimped, asked and got 20% off (it was fine once I'd washed it).

But 73p? Nah.

£90 even to feed 16 is jaw-dropping. Turkey isn't even very nice meat imo.

YABU

Who quibbles about 73p when they’re spending almost £90 on a turkey?!

If you’re rounding £89.73 you’d round up to £90 anyway.

Plus it’s not as if £89 is a nice round number, if it was £100.73 i can see that £100 might be easier for all involved than messing around with small change or breaking a whole other banknote.

YABU, I would've given him £90 if I lived in the same universe where a Turkey now costs the same as a week's worth of groceries for 6 of us

£89?! I'd expect the turkey to do the washing up as well for that!

For 16 people it works out at £5.60 pp

The law of mathematics states that you round to the nearest £ - which would mean you should have really given £90 if you wanted a round figure.

But wow.. I don't think our whole Xmas meal is costing that for four - from M&S!

Our butcher charges £69.99 for:

A 6kg turkey
A beef joint
A gammon joint
A ham
Chipolatas
Bacon
Sausage meat
Cranberry sauce

£90 for a turkey and it'd need a gold fucking beak.

I'd have paid the price. It's not a beach hawker in Benidorm trying to flog you some Ray Banks sunglasses for ten euros.

I've done similar in my local butchers, sometimes they round it down, sometimes they don't. I never take offence if they don't and i wouldn't expect them to take offence at me for asking. I'm sure they negotiate with their suppliers with better or worse results. I always ask with a smile, and am cheery if/when it doesn't pay off. If you don't ask, you don't get.

Poor turkey,that's all it's life was worth.

Yes, YABU, unless you are a contestant on the Apprentice!

Of course you were. I bet if he'd said yes you of handed over £90 in notes & expected a pound going change anyway

YABVU. You didn't even ask for the 73p off, you just assumed with the "is that £89 then?" No, it's fucking not and you know it's not. The fact that you expected it and put it forward in the way you did makes it even more rude than just being direct and asking.

I'm glad he refused. Cheeky fuckery at its finest.

Am I the only one who thinks you've brought an ostrich instead?

Ducking hell - £90 for a turkey!