Wow, do places like these still exist.
Apparently they do, lets see what happened ...
1) My first mistake was asking if it was possible for a discount on 9 items I was thinking of buying, needless to say this didn't seem to go down well with the troll in charge of the shop
2) After inquiring after the prices of a couple of other items I was told that since I wasn't interested in buying the other items I wouldn't be interested in buying anything else, ok that wasn't too insulting
3) Was told that since I wasn't interested in paying full price I wasn't supporting my local bookstore
4) After explaining to the troll that I wasn't a 'local person', I was told to go back to London and buy my books from there.
How very charming, so my advice for anyone thinking of venturing to this shop is to stay away!!!