What Happens When We Go Furniture Shopping.

This is a typical scenario when we go furniture shopping:

me: ini kursi berapa?
shopkeeper: xxx rupiah.
me: wah! mahal sekali! ada discount?
shopkeeper: yyy rupiah.
me: tidak bisa! lebih kurang.
(The negotiation would go on for about 10 minutes and I'll make a move to proceed onto the next shop if we're going nowhere.)
shopkeeper: kaka. okok. zzz rupiah.
me: terima kasih!

after all that negotiation and AFTER we've agreed on the price, my husband comes back to me saying...

stephen: er... actually i don't think this one is nice. i think the other one looks better.
me: but they're both the same and this one is cheaper!
stephen: OMG! they're totally different. look at the width of the arms on this chair as compared to that? (a 1mm difference in width.)
me: but this is cheaper! you said you wanted this chair!
stephen: no la. I'd rather pay 200,000 rupiah more for this one. the design is also nicer (a very very very slight difference) plus I like the dinks in the wood and the colour is slightly different too.
me: wah lau! (I'll be rolling my eyes while proceeding to start another round of negotiation with the poor shopkeeper.)