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minus-squareRememberTheApollo_@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up16arrow-down1·11 months agoI 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?
minus-squarelud@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down1·edit-211 months agoI 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.
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?
Sadly I’m one of them
I love that the article that you didn’t read begins with: