Originally Posted by RangerNS

Car dealerships offer "employee pricing" all the time. Its obvious to me that an employee ticket is free and non-transferable, but I don't think that is obvious to the general population.

I wonder if perhaps a cultural thing. Is it normal to haggle for big ticket commercially produced items/services down to 50% of the cost in Asia? I don't know. Sure, haggle in the market, but the price of a corporate supplied thing is the price, no?

It wasn't "buying online", it was "digging into a chatroom and soliciting deals". If those deals were scammy or impossible or normal, to her, depends on a cultural perspective I don't have.