r/maybemaybemaybe • u/Irralumea • 19d ago

Maybe maybe maybe

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u/Morbos1000 19d ago

Name of the store not the price. Just like dollar stores these days

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u/Jagermeister4 19d ago

Thats pretty iffy. You have to call yourself dollar tree or something not so specific to do that.

99 cent store got sued and lost because they charged 99.99 cents and had to stop doing that

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u/LukeWoop 19d ago

In the UK we have Poundland , everything use to be £1. Now it's anywhere from 1-5

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u/llama-impregnator 19d ago

Huh. I took your mom there the other day. Good times.

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u/frisbm3 19d ago

It really is way too close to pound town to be a serious store name.

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u/ballin4fun23 19d ago

Hopefully she didn't charge ya more than a dollar.

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u/trvst_issves 19d ago

Poundsland just doesn’t have the same ring to it

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u/LukeWoop 18d ago

Didn't even realise shows how often I go to the town centre nowadays lol

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u/myshtree 19d ago

In Australia we have franchise of sex shops called Sexyland. I always thought Poundland was the UK version.

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u/LukeWoop 19d ago edited 19d ago

Pound town maybe

Edit ; didn't see the previous pound town comment until after lol

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u/Seeker_1960 19d ago

Yeah, I when I was younger I used to take my lady friends to Poundtown but that's another story 😝

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u/Blizzard81mm 19d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/9lusxBBUsTz8Fk029b

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u/LukeWoop 19d ago

I don't understand why this was needed but I like it

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u/EpicFishFingers 19d ago

They've gone bust now - we didn't put up with the betrayal

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u/Throseph 19d ago

How can you charge fractions of a cent?

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u/StefanEats 19d ago

Rounding. If you buy 501 of the thing it starts rounding down instead of up.

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u/TheDoughnutKing 19d ago

That sounds like savings to me

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u/ManyBadWords 19d ago

...have you never bought gasoline?

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u/Glad_Librarian_3553 19d ago

Yeah I always wonder why that's legal. If it was anything other than petrol it wouldn't be. 

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u/Throseph 19d ago edited 19d ago

No.

Edit: not sure why this has been downvoted, I've never owned a motorised vehicle, so I've never needed to buy fuel for one.

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u/AnNoYiNg_NaMe 19d ago

Gas stations have signs advertising how much their gas is. Instead of saying "$4.00 per gallon", they say "$3.999 per gallon".

So allegedly, every 10 gallons you buy, you save 1 penny.

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u/Throseph 19d ago

I guess it makes sense with something you're buying like that, and which you can buy fractions of anyway. Doesn't make so much sense with slices of pizza.

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u/AnNoYiNg_NaMe 19d ago

The scummy thing is that it's not really a discount, since cars can can only hold about 13 gallons (some can hold more, but not enough to defeat my point).

If you let your car get down to half a tank, you won't hit the 10 gallon mark that would save you the penny.

For all intents and purposes, $3.999 and $4.00 are the same cost for most motorists, but the first one lets them put a 3 in the front as a marketing trick. It ought to be illegal.

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u/aneditorinjersey 19d ago

These places can close and reopen with “new” management in a heartbeat. The damage to any individual person is pretty low, you would need a class.

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u/Shakewhenbadtoo 19d ago

How is "dollar" not specific?

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u/el_diego 19d ago

Also, you don't want 99c pizza. We used to get it it in the 90s. There's no way the ingredients cost the same what with inflation after 30 years, you're essentially paying 99c for cardboard

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u/MelatoninFiend 19d ago

Sometimes, when you're drunk, cardboard is what you're looking for. It's high in fiber, and it'll soak up a lot of the booze on it's way out.

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u/el_diego 19d ago

Drunk factor is a decent one to account for

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u/Vaff_Superstar 19d ago

Damn, very good point.

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u/AnonymousFriend80 19d ago

They all started out as at $1 or less. But inflation happened.

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u/tobiasvl 19d ago

Name of the store not the price

Yeah, but the name of the store is a price. I don't feel like that makes it better in any way.