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• dohpaz42@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  My favorite is gas is (for example) 2.99 and 9/10ths. Talk about desperately reaching for that left-digit bias.

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  • Rentlar@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Whenever I visit the US and see the gas stations with the 9/10 cent sticker pasted on the signs it makes me laugh internally.

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    • HonoraryMancunian@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Here in the UK our petrol prices end in .9 pence 🙃

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  • esserstein@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    So… 2.999?

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• melmi@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Ending prices with 99 is manipulative. We accept it from businesses because we’re conditioned to, they’re businesses after all! Being manipulated by businesses is just how society operates, part of the environment we live in. But if an individual offers us something for a price ending in 99, we’re much more likely to be suspicious of it.

  The article actually explicitly mentions this, and suggests you list things for 25 under instead of 1 under, for example, as it won’t immediately trigger recognition that you’re doing this.

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  • sparkitz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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    • Plopp@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      But then you wouldn’t sell it for 400.

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    • Mesophar@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      And then I swoop in and list the same thing for $394

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• key@lemmy.keychat.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  EDIT 2: If you have a car for sale and you want $10,000 for it are you listing it for $10,000 or $9995?

  which results in selling 3 to 5 percent more units than at a price of $5.00"

  Well 5% more units when I have 1 unit to sell is still 1 unit. I’m not getting more money by doing this asshole psych 101 trick. Sooo I’ll stick with being a decent person.

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  • CubbyTustard@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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    • TwanHE@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Thats just the whole second hand market strategy. First bid is always close to 70% of the asking price, so you make sure that 70% is actually what you want for it.

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  • Glimpythegoblin@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Still 3-5% more possible buyers for your car by the logic I guess. Not that I agree with the system but marketing is fucked.

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  • sparkitz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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    • ShepherdPie@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It’s not decent to use psychological manipulation on others in order to benefit yourself. As they said, why go r through this just to earn an extra $5 when selling a single vehicle?

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• cuchilloc@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  My brain rounds UP everything to the nearest integer. Pi is 4, joke’s on you.

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  • sparkitz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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    • cuchilloc@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I’m not shitting on your post, it was very interesting! If / whenever I need to sell a product, I’ll think about it.

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  • Tiptopit@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    If the scale you are calculating on is big enough pi is 10

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    • HonoraryMancunian@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Found the engineer astrophysicist

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• Sagifurius@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Yeah…we all understand the trick and hate it.

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• NewPerspective@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It’s a dark pattern. Maybe at one point in time people would be tricked into believing $3.99 was emotionally a lot less than $4 but we’ve grown up with it now for several generations. Everyone knows it costs more anyway because of taxes not being applied until the register. The mistrust is built into the system out of tradition more than anything.

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  • SorteKanin@feddit.dk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Everyone knows it costs more anyway because of taxes not being applied until the register.

    Well, that’s only if you’re in the US.

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    • Drusenija@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      This trips you up so many times if you visit the US from somewhere else. The number of times I’d see a snack listed for 99c, have a dollar bill on me and then they ask for like $1.12 is higher than I’d like to admit.

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  • sparkitz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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    • themeatbridge@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It still works at scale. If I’m selling a couch on craigslist for $10, I’d have to be a massive butthole to advertise it at $9.99. The fuck am I going to do, give them a penny in change? $10 is $10. I only need to sell it once, and I do not have the patience to deal with someone looking to haggle.

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• RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I always round up.

  I don’t get this idea that 99 makes your brain feel like the price is lower, I don’t know that I’ve experienced it. 99¢ is $1. $49.99 is $50. Plus tax. Who are these “average” people that give themselves a magical mental discount?

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  • lud@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I love that the article that you didn’t read begins with:

    Think you’re too savvy to be influenced by prices that end in .99, like $4.99? Think again. A 2018 UC Berkeley study found that the average person treats a price ending in .99 as if it were 15 to 20 cents lower.

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  • Mir@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Sadly I’m one of them

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• PP_BOY_@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Devils advocate but I absolutely list my online prices at $XX.99 because people are more willing to buy from a seller who seems like a legit business instead of a private person. This is also why I make kinda arbitrary prices like $113.99 instead of something like $115 even.

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  • Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    With a name like PP_BOY_ how could you be anything but legit? /s lol

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• Delphia@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  One of the reasons this originally gained popularity hasnt been mentioned.

  Retailers used it as a tool to force employees using cash registers to open the register to give customers their small denomination change. If prices were a flat number its a lot easier for a shop assistant with sticky fingers to just pocket the money if the customer had the exact price.

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  • CubbyTustard@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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    • Delphia@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cash_register

      I mean it is wikipedia, but still.

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  • Deconceptualist@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Wouldn’t the cashier get more opportunities to swipe money every time they open the drawer? And how would they explain the drawer not adding up at the end of the shift?

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    • Delphia@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      If the price was exactly $10 and the customer had exactly $10, the cashier didnt have to open the drawer at all. There is no record of any sale, the drawer doesnt have to add up because the money never went in and the only way to prove that they stole that $10 in their pocket is to catch them in the act.

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    • Sagifurius@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      If it was say fruit, or beer in a bar, one isn’t counted that close bulk and the other, you could just wait till you sell six and then ring it through as a six pack to go.

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• possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  How is this a shower thought?

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  • HonoraryMancunian@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Seems like the type of thing I’d randomly think of in the shower

    (Also, where else would it go?)

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• DontTreadOnBigfoot@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Because I have no interest in carrying around coins to make change

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• person@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I go out of my way to double back and read 4.99 again as 5. I’m sure I’m not immune but I’m doing my best, aye?

  I have some respect for the revolutionaries such as Factorio on Steam who refuse to do this. Though at the end of the day that too is, or can (and will) be, just a marketing ploy to stand out.

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• Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Unless you shop at Walmart, which literally promises to not end prices in 0, 5 or 9.

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• ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Since I’m not desperate for money, I won’t do it as a matter of principle. What that principle is exactly, I don’t know…

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  • lolcatnip@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Honesty? It only works if you succeed in tricking people.

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• dezmd@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Sort by lowest price is what matters now.

  Thats why I sell at a xx98.87 price point.

  /race to the bottom

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• explodicle@local106.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  If corporations were in actual competition like individuals are, then I’d pass by the one that is nickel and diming me with BS. We only tolerate it because of poor competition.

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• LZamperini@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  My head went straight to yard sale prices and thought watching someone pull out 99 cents sounds annoying.. in the end the psychology makes sense but a flat number cash or card seems more convenient to the average Joe I'm selling to.

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• driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Some days ago I asked the price for something and the attendant said “fifteen”; but then when it put the price in card reader it 14.99 🤔

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• andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It works differently for me. 9 as a biggest single digit gives of expression of a bigger total number, besides feeling tricked.

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