While I'm not a regular to Jamaica like many of you, I have traveled (and lived) in the Caribbean/Mexico extensively in my lifetime. A point that should be made on this is once you have lived/made friends/traveled routinely in an area taxi drivers or vendors don't take you as a "mark" and start out high, they offer you a fair price eliminating the need for heavy negotiation or ridiculous low ball offers. Accompong it sounds like you have earned that respect with your time in paradise but most of us haven't so please excuse us if we do play the game, BUT with respect!