Rou

$9.99
$19.99
$99.95
$999.95
$19,995.99

Round it the fuck up already. I don’t care if it’s a candy bar or a new car. I despise the fact that things are always priced just under their cost. When something says it’s $9.99, most of us know it costs $10. But because there is a small infantile percentage of the population that is incapable of making that little leap, I always get a handful of change when I buy things. Pennies and nickels mostly, but largely irrelevant to the greater scheme of the actual price.

And without fail, those coins get tossed. Either into a coin jar at home, or I drop them on the sidewalk outside. I don’t want them, don’t need them and frankly, get sick of the obvious subterfuge that stores use in an effort to make their prices seem lower.

“Starting under $10,000!!!” We all know that means their cheapest car is $9999.99

I know, I know. A penny saved and all that. But I would gladly surrender that to make my checkbook easier to balance. To skip the part of the day where I have to empty the change out of my pockets. To make calculating the cost of multiple items easier in my head. .

I’m not saying get rid of change or pennies or round everything up to the closest dollar. But I get annoyed every time I see things priced this way just to give a false impression. I don’t get mad at the stores. Not really. I get mad at the sorry saps who allow this disingenuous marketing ploy work

Of course, I know many of you don’t care. Most of you pay a sales tax that boosts the price up over the dollar anyway, which ends with you have a much larger sack of coins in your pocket as you break another dollar. But I don’t have to, so it pisses me off.

Still. Aggravates me, so I ranted about it :P