To really get the benefit, you have to haggle. I bought a laptop for a friend the other day at Good Guys, ticketed at $1050. They immediately offered it to me for $1020 for cash. I sent them back to pretend to work something out a couple more times because I wanted it for $950. We haggled it down to $960. I was pretty proud of myself actually, I almost never haggle (because we always seem to be buying things on finance) but this friend had the cash in her purse so away we went.
The Good Guys down here will knock more $$$ if you give them cash in the hand. The price on the ticket is what you pay eftpos or cc. Some cc's ie amex incur a surcharge on top of the ticketed price so I've been told
I recently paid for a new washing machine at the Good Guys using a credit card and got the cash price - it was about $20 off or something. Plus I got a $100 store credit for buying a washing machine that week - it was a promotion they had going that I didn't know about, so that was a nice bonus lol, I went back later and got a food processor for free.
We bought something there not long ago, can't remember what it was, but the salesgirl said they don't really do that anymore, they just offer the discount straight off....but then again, they still advertise it, so maybe they do go lower if you're loud or something
All those electrical stores have such a huge mark up on their stock that it is easy for them to do a discount price. They only have to make a certain minimum percentage of profit on each product and they have room to move with any profit margin higher than that. Their 'discounts' are quite often still much bigger than the profit margin they want to make.
My DH was a sales rep to electrical companies for a couple of years. He also said you are more likely to get a bigger discount if you don't use a great deal of their time. If you go into buy something and um and ah for a couple of hours, they won't mark things down as much as if you go in and buy something quite quickly because you have used more of their time.
I don't know if every sales person is exactly the same - individual sales people have a lot more power than they let on and sometimes it is worthwhile talking to a different sales person if the first one just won't budge (try and find one that looks desperate for a sale - most have to sell a minimum amount to get commission paid and they have targets they are meant to be meeting).
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