Little different for me:
$1 - 5 = $5
$6 - 12 = $10
$13 - 20 = $20
$21 - 50 = $50
$51 - 70 = $100
>$70 = $1000
Same, quite a bit of difference to me.
$1 - 7 = how many of these are they going to charge? 100+ dollars
$8 - 60 = round to nearest $5
$61+ = irrelevant collector’s edition
That’s basically right.
$70?
I could buy a car for that kinda money.
You just reminded me of a time when $70 felt like nearly unlimited opportunities. Now, $70 means that I might get to buy groceries AND restock on spices.
I keep being both entertained and baffled for the past three years or so by USians on Reddit complaining about games costing 60 bucks and simultaneously complaining about food delivery that they order every day. Not buying pizza for a couple days? Unimaginable.
God, I wish I could get groceries for 70…
Sorry, I meant an extra $70. I was irresponsibly drowsy-posting.
Bruh a single bag of groceries is like 110 rn
I found a pizza place near me that still has like 2010 prices. It’s like a large pie with 5 toppings for $20. Most places are more like $30 now, here (NYC)
No way $6 is $10 to you and not $5 this is how I know you’re lying.
I’m not saying it’s rational, it just feels like more money.
Been quite a long time since I spent over £35 in a game
Guybrush has it right.
No way. 7.99 is 10
First, these jabronies need adderall.
Second, I need adderall.
I think we’re the same sort of jabroni.
You should go to the doctor and get a blood test. And while you’re there, try to get me some adderall.
i get it but for me 8 is 10
8 is 10 but 7.99 is 5
Nah it’s still ten, especially if you grew up in a place that doesn’t include tax in the price. That’s easily getting to mid 8 after tax, and that might as well be ten.
7.99 is 9
7.99 is 10 but 7.49 is 7.49 and 6.99 is 7.49 also
For me:
Under 100₴ - free
100₴ - 300₴ - it must be worth it for me to buy it.
More than 300₴ - i will never finacially recover from this purschase.
I have never seen that symbol before. What currency is that!?
Edit: it’s the Ukrainian hryvnia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hryvnia_sign
For something that makes absolutely no sense at all, this makes a lot of sense.
Nothing new tbh. How we subconsciously round off numbers is a big part of super market pricing. Everything with a zero at the end seems bigger. Not only does 19.99 seem much smaller then 20, but even 21.99 seems smaller then 20 at a glance.
I used to work at a call center dealing with phone bill questions. Once you go past 20, people only see the first digit and the total number of digits, and perceive every digit after the first as 0.
If I had a nickel for every time I had this conversation, I’d have more than two nickels.
Customer: Why has my bill gone up by £10?!
Me: I see that on <date> you called a premium rate line which cost £2.
Customer: That’s only £2! I want to know why my bill is £10 higher!
Me: Your bill is normally £29.50. This month it’s £31.50. That’s a £2 difference.
Customer: Oh, so it is.
a ** premium rate line which cost** £2.
New rage unlocked.
The 99 pricing messes with me the other way…
I see like 399, and think it’s 400. Then when I think about whether I want it later, I remember the 4 and the 99 and believe it costs 500
I’ve never really understood it, tbh. I’ve always rounded to the nearest whole number. I don’t know why you would do anything but that. The whole “$6.99 is $6” thing makes absolutely no sense to me. I see that and immediately see $7, without even having to think about it really.
I figure people stop reading at the decimal point like it’s a period.
they could’ve just said they smoked weed
I just round up to the nearest multiple of 5. Who the hell rounds down when looking at prices?
Am I weird for rounding 8 to 10??
Yeah, but what about $7.99?
Closer to 800
That’s 8, so also 10
As a Canadian, that’s 10 bucks cause of tax
8 is definitely 10. 10 starts at 7.30~7.40 for me. Anything above 7.50 is 10.
Nah. But I think the difference in this specific case is that if you’re already kinda wanting to buy something and it’s 8 dollars, you might convince yourself that it’s basically just 5 dollars to justify the purchase.
no, completely valid, but pricing is a psychological question rather than a math question for some.
reason for example products are priced with X.99
some people se it as cost X amount, others (like youself) see it as X+1 amount. the 0.99 is the extreme end of the psychology and choosing 8 in the case of peak increases number of people who dont see it at the higher price
No. 8 is closer to 10 then it is to 5
I’m Canadian, so I instinctively just round 5 bucks up to 8 bucks instead (adding exchange and tax)
It’s so odd hearing how North America doesn’t have total purchase price on the item.
They’re outta line, but they’re right
Unfortunately up here the Benjamins to beaver bucks conversion rate sucks. And then we have to pay 15% tax on top.
So anything that’s trying to follow that logic breaks apart real quick, even when there’s 10% off on launch, still comes out to more than the full price would be… :(
Yeah, in Canada here, peak is $10 no discount, $12ish after tax
There’s Math, then there’s Math By Marketers
This feels like a Discworld scene.
It’s almost Cut Me Own Throat Dibbler type math, but it does actually make sense to me.
… Dibbler was an extremely good hot sausage salesman. He had to be, given the nature of his sausages
It does, but it also makes sense to me.
I mean the best parts of Discworld, no matter how absurd, still made some sense; of course we have to believe in a jolly, present delivering, pig man, otherwise the sun won’t rise in the morning, a great big ball of flaming gas would rise instead.
8 bucks is definitely 10 bucks in my book. 6.99 is 5 but above that and I start thinking 10.
