I find it inconvenient, even sily the common practice in "exhibition" stalls of not putting price tags on products.

I hate having to ask "how much is this one.....; and this one.......; and that one there....?

It is simply annoying!

What good reason do these small traders have for not indicating their prices?

Do they realise that all bigger businesses [the Nakumatts and Tuskys of this country] always indicate their prices? Perhaps that's one reason why the the former remain small while the latter are growing bigger and bigger.

An item could be inflated to twice the normal price depending on customer. They will always ask 'Kwani ulikuwa na pesa ngapi?' Then the lady will say with a sigh, we leta tu. Haitokangi hivyo lakini nitakufanyia discount. Woe on you!

I was looking for a new pair of shoes and happened to see a nice pair in a stall. I asked the price and the guy said "8k" with a straight face. I turned around and went to Bata where I found a similar pair for 2. These guys are after quick cash.

it pays to windowshop b4 u purchase anything these days....

that pair would have costed much less in garisa lodge...

Yeah, @Faz00; it is silly, really. If you are selling something, why are you treating the price like a state secrete? You put an ad without a price and you get 300 calls in one day and out those, 297 tell you that it is too expensive. If you had stated the price, you only get the 3 calls from the "serious" buyers...

Reminds me also of the many silly employers who state that the salary will be "generous' or "competitive" or other such like nonsense. Do they imagine that more serious people will apply because the salary is "attractive"?

My stand has always been: either you state the figure or say absolutely nothing about it!