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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Clawcoins, post: 3551933, member: 77814&quot;]There is an easy solution to everything.</p><p>Have companies simply round up the retail/selling price.</p><p><br /></p><p>Why does practically everything be 9 cents?&nbsp; 1.09, 1.49, 1.99 and even for gas 1.999.&nbsp;&nbsp; .999 for all practicality is $1.00, but people have the perception they aren&#039;t spending $1.&nbsp; I&#039;ve *never* been able to get back .001 from the gas station no matter how hard I&#039;ve tried in the past.</p><p><br /></p><p>There is a reason companies currently do not just round up prices.</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s called marketing, and finding the &quot;sweet spot of pricing&quot; to make people buy something versus opting not to.</p><p><br /></p><p>The study of pricing strategies drives sales.</p><p>So you&#039;ll first have to convince sellers not to use the 9 strategy.&nbsp; But there&#039;s been plenty of studies in the past that the 9 strategy self-convinces people to spend more, and significantly more in some cases.&nbsp; There&#039;s even studies in how people react to seeing, or not seeing the &quot;$&quot; sign on price tags.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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