Bad Ass Bargaining
So being women (no offense to women who don't like shopping and bargaining) the girls & I dedicated the entire day to getting some shopping done with the last $50 in our bank accounts.
Sadly T had the pleasure of telling us girls the night before that our plan had a slight problem....the Bazaar is CLOSED ON SUNDAYS!
What thE HECK. OMG. The well-known, 4500 shop Bazaar was closed...but we dedicated a whole DAY to shopping!!! NOOOOOOOOO.
So we decided, screw it, we are gonna find a bazaar and haggle anyway! And that is exactly what we did.
Next to the Blue Mosque there is a smaller bazaar, called the Artisan Bazaar, which has really beautiful bowls, tea sets, and other cool things.
One store had these beautiful light blue/dark blue plates & small jewelery holders that I found myself wanting, very badly...so I bought a few things for friends and family and a small thing for myself.
Next on the agenda was a BIG ticket item. Pashminas. As many as we could hold & afford.
Sadly, again, Istanbul is expensive, BUT we did awesome bargaining, and each got 2 really pretty pashminas for 20 lira. They are sooo nice! It is the best thing to get in Europe and totally worth a round-trip ticket!
Next we decided to wander through the streets and just see where the wind took us...it was cold, but happily not raining for the first time.
We wandered down and found the Big Bazaar, which sadly as T warned us, was closed.
However this other random bazaar, which was a guy fest for some reason...like it was jeans & underwear and 97% men...very odd.
But we did find purses & sunglasses and I fell in LOVE with this one mustard colored, over the shoulder, fake Jimmy Choo (YUM!...and people I don't do yellows, but it is the best bag evvverr)
And E found an awesome choco & blue purse and we decided to bargain. Bad Ass hats on!
Each bag cost 160 lira aka 140 bucks. I had about $10 left in the bank account.
Crap.
I want it.
Okay..so the two bags together he told us would cost 350 lira. Heck No h20.
We told him 100 lira. He looked at us like we were crazy & told us we had credit cards and money and he could never sell it to us for 100.
We said 100.
He told us that Bush's daughter was at their shop (yah RIGHT.) and he sold her a bag for 1000 lira. We told him that was bull and no American in their right mind would ever pay good money for a knock-off, especially a girl who can get the real bag in America for LESS.
We still said 100.
We started to walk away.
We WON.
The owner said the day was slow, and if we had cash only the bags were ours for a special offer of 100 lira.
We ran, got the last of the cash out, and got our two bags for 100 lira!
It was awesommme. I sleep with my bag I love it so much.
Best way to end an awesome Euro Trip!
Sadly T had the pleasure of telling us girls the night before that our plan had a slight problem....the Bazaar is CLOSED ON SUNDAYS!
What thE HECK. OMG. The well-known, 4500 shop Bazaar was closed...but we dedicated a whole DAY to shopping!!! NOOOOOOOOO.
So we decided, screw it, we are gonna find a bazaar and haggle anyway! And that is exactly what we did.
Next to the Blue Mosque there is a smaller bazaar, called the Artisan Bazaar, which has really beautiful bowls, tea sets, and other cool things.
One store had these beautiful light blue/dark blue plates & small jewelery holders that I found myself wanting, very badly...so I bought a few things for friends and family and a small thing for myself.
Next on the agenda was a BIG ticket item. Pashminas. As many as we could hold & afford.
Sadly, again, Istanbul is expensive, BUT we did awesome bargaining, and each got 2 really pretty pashminas for 20 lira. They are sooo nice! It is the best thing to get in Europe and totally worth a round-trip ticket!
Next we decided to wander through the streets and just see where the wind took us...it was cold, but happily not raining for the first time.
We wandered down and found the Big Bazaar, which sadly as T warned us, was closed.
However this other random bazaar, which was a guy fest for some reason...like it was jeans & underwear and 97% men...very odd.
But we did find purses & sunglasses and I fell in LOVE with this one mustard colored, over the shoulder, fake Jimmy Choo (YUM!...and people I don't do yellows, but it is the best bag evvverr)
And E found an awesome choco & blue purse and we decided to bargain. Bad Ass hats on!
Each bag cost 160 lira aka 140 bucks. I had about $10 left in the bank account.
Crap.
I want it.
Okay..so the two bags together he told us would cost 350 lira. Heck No h20.
We told him 100 lira. He looked at us like we were crazy & told us we had credit cards and money and he could never sell it to us for 100.
We said 100.
He told us that Bush's daughter was at their shop (yah RIGHT.) and he sold her a bag for 1000 lira. We told him that was bull and no American in their right mind would ever pay good money for a knock-off, especially a girl who can get the real bag in America for LESS.
We still said 100.
We started to walk away.
We WON.
The owner said the day was slow, and if we had cash only the bags were ours for a special offer of 100 lira.
We ran, got the last of the cash out, and got our two bags for 100 lira!
It was awesommme. I sleep with my bag I love it so much.
Best way to end an awesome Euro Trip!
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