This traditional Russian chess set was priced pretty high at the street market outside of Moscow. The price came down a bit when I offered to buy 2 sets. When I had two friends each promise to buy sets as part of my order, this set got ridiculously cheap. Still, a friend, familiar with the seller, encouraged him to give me a better price. She told him he could make it up on some of the Japanese tourists walking by. He laughed at her chutzpah. But he did not give in.
