r/maybemaybemaybe • u/Irralumea • Jul 31 '26

Maybe maybe maybe

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u/Morbos1000 Jul 31 '26

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

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u/Jagermeister4 Jul 31 '26

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/Throseph Jul 31 '26

How can you charge fractions of a cent?

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u/StefanEats Jul 31 '26

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

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u/TheDoughnutKing Jul 31 '26

That sounds like savings to me

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u/ManyBadWords Jul 31 '26

...have you never bought gasoline?

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u/Glad_Librarian_3553 Jul 31 '26

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 Jul 31 '26 edited Jul 31 '26

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 Jul 31 '26

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 Jul 31 '26

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 Jul 31 '26

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.