One-on-one bargaining of this kind can actually be more efficient, in an economic sense, than low-context Western commerce that explicitly reveals an equilibrated market price on a price tag or website. Negotiation may discover a price on the seller and I can agree, allowing mutually beneficial trade to proceed, even when one of us is dissatisfied with the market price and no trade would occur in a fixed-price system. In fact, some recent online auctions and trading are beginning to resemble traditional practices more than transparency-based Western commerce.f