MicroSD: one good ripoff deserves another / Iomega Zip's

25 Apr 2012

...
    The local 99 Cent store sells A-B USB cables for ...
wait for it ...
 99.99 cents. (PRICE GOUGING!)  
 How do they charge the fractional cents?  
 They round up the total at the register. So it's really a way of charging
 a dollar without actually doing so. 
If you buy 100 of them, do you get to pau $99.99? If not, I would class 
it as false advertising.

Some of the electronic component suppliers I deal with do list 
compooents with prices involving fractional pennies, but they also have 
an 'order multiple' so you have to buy a mutliple of 5 (say). At which 
point the total price is an integer (and it's what you are charged).

-tony

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