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- Sandra: Oh boy, Woo! I’m really gonna buy it!
- Sandra: Haha… what?
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[1115] Go To Checkout
└ posted on Monday, 16 September 2019, by Novil
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Alpo wrote:
Right, addresses are hard too. *sigh*
Huh. (I admit I didn’t fully believe you and opened a couple American online stores to check—sure enough, they do add .00 even to huge prices. Sorry for doubting you.) Is there any particular reason for this, or just tradition?
Also, is this true if all prices in the shop are in whole dollars? Do they still add .00 to each of them?
Gotta watch the 0’s on those shipping costs.
Also, maybe she should take a closer look. The painting might be 10×6… in meters.
but she caught it before buying, that is important
Yeah, as a North American I’ve been brought to a full stop by even other English speakers use of monetary figure dividers too, Indian crore/lakh for example gave me a bit of a brain fart. And “Spring Street 36”??
From Wikipedia: “The terms lakh (100,000 or 1,00,000 in Indian notation) and crore (10,000,000 or 1,00,00,000)[1] are used in Indian English to express large numbers.”
Divided by a common language indeed.
@ Carefulrogue:
Actually, we do during the rounding process. That’s part of why I watch my fuel purchase transactions as closely as I do. It’s a really easily exploitable issue, since many people don’t watch their pennies. Part of the reason banks need to watch transactions so closely is that it’s (relatively) easy for a person who has good computer skills to add/subtract one or two pennies per transaction, but wind up rich within a week, if not caught.
The real hilarity will ensue when the seller is contacted and finds out that the misprint was larger than expected, with one hundred and thirty three dollars supposed to be the actual price with eleven dollars and thirty cents as the shipping cost.
Ah yes, good old eBay scam of setting a super low buyout price but putting an insanely high shipping cost. So that if the buyer demands a refund, you’re only going to refund the tiny purchase price and not the shipping costs.
@ Nachum:
Was going to say, i thought she was blanching at the thought of paying $11.30 for shipping – which I this era of Amazon Prime happen quite a lot.
Chortos-2 wrote:
Also, is this true if all prices in the shop are in whole dollars? Do they still add .00 to each of them?
I have seen one or two restaurants where everything on the menu is priced in whole dollar amounts, and they don’t put the “.00” after the price. Beyond that, though, yes, every single price is going to have two digits after the decimal point, regardless.
I’m pretty sure it’s just tradition. No other reason I know of.
Haha, guilty American here. I thought the joke was that $11.30 was a high price to pay for shipping, and that even though she had been given permission to buy something at $1300, the additional $11.30 would be a stopping point. I’ve abandoned carts over $5 worth of shipping before, or been trapped into the “free shipping over $30” scheme when I’ve just wanted a $10 item, so it made sense to me as a joke.
I live in Canada. Shipping from the USA (over land, shared national border) is 3x to 10x as expensive as shipping from England or France (over an ocean). It’s bizarre.
Well 10 grand on shipping wow must be a well packed and heavily insured, unlike the hope diamond that was shipped in a plain brown envelop. hope its…..
Nope its a scam.
@ Chortos-2:
There are very few places where stuff is sold in whole dollar amounts. Normally things are priced a couple of pennies under a dollar amount, to rely on the stupidity of your average retail customer. Instead of selling something for seven dollars it will be marked “$6.99”. The customer will focus on the 6, ignoring the 99. “Goodie. This only costs six dollars.”
There are a few chain stores – Dollar Tree, Everything’s a Dollar, like that – where all of the merchandise costs exactly one dollar. Normally there will be no prices there. Since it all cost the same price, there’s no sense in pricing it.
As for tradition – “tradition” seems to me to be a way of explaining something you do that appears stupid to everyone else. “But we’ve always done it that way. It’s tradition.”
We drive on the right side of the road. It’s tradition. We stop when the traffic light is red. It’s tradition. We spell knife with a k. It’s tradition. Our money is written in dollars and cents. Even if the amount is whole dollars, it is still written in dollars and cents.
We’ve always done it that way. It’s tradition. 😀