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byBert64 ( 520050 ) writes:
Many countries have already done away with their lowest denomination coins.
Hopefully this does away with all the ridiculous x.99 pricing but it will probably just end up as x.95.
byRosco P. Coltrane ( 209368 ) writes:
Hopefully this does away with all the ridiculous x.99 pricing but it will probably just end up as x.95.
Dream on. It will be adjusted to (x+1).05
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bythegarbz ( 1787294 ) writes:
No it won't. For the same reason that everything is currently x.99 instead of x+1. There's a psychological barrier to rounding up that causes people to think something is unreasonably more expensive.
In literally every country on earth where 1 and 2c pieces has been abolished they went to x.95.
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