Lowering the price for some customers but not others in a sale
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. A questioner says: I am a merchant, and some customers come to me to buy goods. Sometimes I lower the price for some of them and not for the rest. Is this permissible?
Answer:
If you have not wronged the others, meaning if it is like the market price and does not contradict it, it is permissible to lower the price for some of them below the market price, and you are not required to lower it for the rest, provided it does not contradict. As for raising it above the market price, that is not permissible; this is from *najsh* (collusive bidding).
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. A questioner says: I am a merchant, and some customers come to me to buy goods. Sometimes I lower the price for some of them and not for the rest. Is this permissible?
Answer:
If you have not wronged the others, meaning if it is like the market price and does not contradict it, it is permissible to lower the price for some of them below the market price, and you are not required to lower it for the rest, provided it does not contradict. As for raising it above the market price, that is not permissible; this is from *najsh* (collusive bidding).
Source
شرح إغاثة اللهفان من مصائد الشيطان لابن القيم، فصل ومن تلاعبه وكيده : تلاعبه بالثنوية — islamhouse.com (55:04)
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