The kind of person that uses portion weight when choosing somewhere to eat is unlikely to be or become educated. (Developing countries excluded, of course).
Rule of thumb: if a menu mentions portions size, eat somewhere else.
Royale With Cheese
Ever seen Reservoir Dogs ?
It's put together funny, deliberately screwing up the timeline, but it is definitely Tarantino material. Four Rooms is kinda out of this world too.
I still don't understand why gas prices still are priced to 9/10 of a cent. It just gets round up to the next highest cent anyway. Plus items that priced at $99.99. I just say to myself..oh! $100.00. Do they think that the general public falls for that antiquated sort of psychological BS?
"Jackie Brown" is probably my favorite of the era. "Desperado" would likely be second.
A lot of his stuff is too gratuitously violet for my tastes, though I'll give "Desperado" a pass.
Obviously, yes!
Yes, they do.
Next time you have a choice of something priced at 14.99,
19.99, and 29.99, tell the salesdroid you want the 20 item - and watch the mental clashing of gears, optionally with a mouth emulating a fish's mouth :)OTOH, if buying at an auction and you max price is
150, then mentally increase that to 155 so that you'll beat someone with a max price of 150. Given it is an auction, the increment probably isn't significant.
I've had salespeople insist on calling it the $19.99 item when I start calling it the $20 item. I walk away.
-- Rick C
The gas thing is easy to understand. Prices are posted on large signs. Any of them who remove the 0.9 cents from their price by rounding up to the penny looks to be more expensive. I'm sure there are people who will go across the street to get gas a penny cheaper.
Otherwise the pricing is subliminal. You see $19.99 and the instinct is that's not $20, even if your rational mind tells you otherwise. In fact, it is cheaper, even if only by a penny. Yeah, your brain works that way.
-- Rick C
Any of them who remove the 0.9 cents from >their price by rounding up to th e penny looks to be more >expensive. I'm sure there are people who will go across >the street to get gas a penny cheaper. "
Do they do that in countries where the schools teach math ?
HA, I remember years ago this piece of equipment, I think it may have been one of the first DVD burners or something like that , it was something like $43,716.12. Now can you imagine being in line at the store with one of the se things and having over $43,000 on the counter and not being able to come up with the 12 cents ?
and it is only the final amount that gets rounded, and not if you pay with a card
I certainly do (within reason [*]). I reward those who have lower prices on commodities.
[*] There are certain brands that don't work well in my vehicle (and different for each).Yep. Well known phenomenon. Not sure I get *.98 or *.95, though.
Haven't we all been there? :(
-- Rick C
?? what do you mean "not if you pay with a card?" The amount doesn't change when I pay with a credit card. Or are you saying somehow a credit card company keeps track of the fractions and adds together multiple charges before rounding for the total each month?
I had to learn about sales tax when I started my business and found in the law that they will aggregate multiple purchases from a single vendor over the course of a day when calculating the sales tax. I bet *no one* implements that in their tax programs.
-- Rick C
I'll have the Exponential Burger with Inverse Cheese.
With auctions I'll wait for the last 10 to 15 seconds and then go to $150. Then with just a few seconds left I do something like $161. That way the other bidder will go 5 or 10 higher but I usually get the item.
"SPEED LIMIT 54.9 MPH".
When I did accounting 50+years ago, you priced at $19.95 or $19.99 for one good reason. When a customer handed over $20 in notes, he/she expected change. That forced the sales person to ring up the amount on the till and give the change.
Otherwise all too easy to slip the $20 into your pocket.
Maybe a hangover from those days?
Owen
You don't have sales tax there ?
I saw a sign once for a speed limit of 9 1/2 or maybe 14 1/2 MPH. The rational is that you have to think about it more and so will be more conscious of your speed.
-- Rick C
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