I echo you words Maurice "I found the whole experience like pulling teeth." I think perhaps its' because I am not a people person and cannot, will not and don't see why I should have to put up with the sheer stupidity of the public at large.
My price is my price for a very good reason, if you want to barter or haggle go to a Medina not a craft fair.
If you not gonna buy it then don't bloody touch it in the first place, I now have to clean it after you have wiped your sticky greasy fat fingers all over it, are you gonna pay me to do that? NO. Then Foff.
I fully understand where you are coming from dear chap.