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I hate .99

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NightCrawler

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Why do they insist on .99 for everything, do they really believe people think something is cheaper. I was talking to a salesman the other day and he kept insisting on using the .99 on everything.

ME: Curious what would that cost

Sales: 39.99

ME: So $40 bucks eh

Sales: no $39.99

ME: right $40

Sales: no I prefer $39.99

ME: whatever


Special hate that newegg uses it, all those .99 get on my nerve when your trying to add up the cost for parts for someone.
 
Makes it sound cheaper, or it's supposed to anyways. I think change should be abolished altogether.
 
Originally posted by: fredtam
Originally posted by: Mill
I hate it too. I'd much rather shop somewhere that used whole amounts rather than .95 or .99.
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Why?
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I don't like change for one(which is why I use my CCs a lot), and the other reason is I feel it is very deceptive. Heck, I'd love to see places price things so with tax it would be a whole amount.
 
ahh, the good ol' 99-95 debate. i totally thought it was stupid, but like other people who've posted above, i'd rather buy something at 9.99 than at 10. not very logical, but those cents add up?
 
I'd like for everything to be .95. Cause after tax that'd be $1 even. Too bad no one here does that. I hate getting tons of change everywhere.
 
Originally posted by: scorp00
I'd like for everything to be .95. Cause after tax that'd be $1 even. Too bad no one here does that. I hate getting tons of change everywhere.
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Where you live it adds to 1$ even, for me thatd add up to like 1.04$

And yes, the 99 cent stuff, or 1.98$ is annoying. The only place ive been to that has whole dollar prices is Legal Seafoods.
 
The practice of charging un-rounded prices was invented my Macy (of Macy's department store) in an effort to curb employee theft. It ensured that emolyees would have to make change, making it less likely they would fail to ring up an item and pocket the exact change.
 
over here in korea, on the army base, everything is rounded to the nearest nickel. we DONT use pennies, its not even legal tender here.

so 99cents = $1
97 cents = 95 cents
1.49 = 1.50

you get the idea
 
Originally posted by: Spikesoldier
over here in korea, on the army base, everything is rounded to the nearest nickel. we DONT use pennies, its not even legal tender here.

so 99cents = $1
97 cents = 95 cents
1.49 = 1.50

you get the idea
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I don't see how it could possibly not be legal tender there. An army base is still US soil, and pennies are legal tender in the US.
I happen to like change.
 
Originally posted by: Amused
The practice of charging un-rounded prices was invented my Macy (of Macy's department store) in an effort to curb employee theft. It ensured that emolyees would have to make change, making it less likely they would fail to ring up an item and pocket the exact change.
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really?

I thought it was just marketing. Makes sense, the mind sees 19.95 and thinks "gee its only 19 bucks, I can afford that!"
 
There's this one restaurant on campus that has weird prices like $4.86. I thought wtf are they doing. I soon realized after I placed my order that they figured out the prices so you pay dollar amounts or nicely rounded values to the 25 cent mark. I really liked how they did that.
 
Originally posted by: Amused
The practice of charging un-rounded prices was invented my Macy (of Macy's department store) in an effort to curb employee theft. It ensured that emolyees would have to make change, making it less likely they would fail to ring up an item and pocket the exact change.
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Nifty. I've never heard of that. Thanks.
 
Originally posted by: Saulbadguy
Originally posted by: Amused
The practice of charging un-rounded prices was invented my Macy (of Macy's department store) in an effort to curb employee theft. It ensured that emolyees would have to make change, making it less likely they would fail to ring up an item and pocket the exact change.
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Nifty. I've never heard of that. Thanks.
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I remember seeing that on the History channel a few years ago.
 
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