Ask For Discount Always
It does not cost us anything to ask for discount in a restaurant or any entertainment place. Sometimes, out of goodwill, the restaurant may offer you a dessert free of charge even if there is no discount offer.
Dinner At The Mid Range Restaurants
Go around 9 pm as most restaurants take the last order at 10 pm. As you finish your dinner at around 10 pm, they are likely offer you a dessert or cake which will otherwise be disposed anyway. Similarly for food kiosks, if you purchase at this late hour, you are likely to get a hefty discount or a lot more food thrown in free.
Discount For Members
Whether it is supermarket, restaurant or any entertainment place, sometimes members get to enjoy discounts and membership points to redeem gifts. It is not a hassle to ask any member to make the purchase for you. You get to enjoy the discount while the member receives more membership points.
Car Park Charges
Once I parked my car in a 5 star hotel car park for several hours to attend a seminar. The car park charges were exorbitant. In most 5 star hotels, if not all, the guests are entitled to complimentary parking. I went to the bar and asked the first foreign guest I saw sitting at the bar counter whether he was staying at the hotel. When he replied in the affirmative, I asked him for a favor. I asked if I could buy him a drink in exchange for his complimentary car park privilege. He saw no harm as he earned another drink while I need not pay for the car park charges. You may find yourself in such situation sometimes because the seminar or exhibition may be held in 5 star hotels but the organizer does not offer you complimentary parking.
Theme Park Entrance Tickets
Most theme park offers bulk discount and usually the shops just outside the entrance of the theme park may have these discounted entrance tickets. It is not a hassle just to walk over to ask all these shops on the availability of these discounted entrance tickets.
Online Purchase
Do not be surprised that you can get even good quality brand goods delivered to your door-step for a fraction of what you will pay in the retail shops in the mall. Today, so much stuff can be purchased online.
You can even design your own promotional banner, flyers, brochures, curtains, covers, etc, for only a fraction of what you will pay engaging professional services in shops or offices.
