>>> Right. Well to me, if the prices have different numbers of *digits* in 
>>> them, they're pretty damn far apart! ;-)
>>
>> That's why they sell stuff for $999 instead of $1000.
>
> Wow. I thought only the Americans did that crap. :-)  I don't remember 
> anything in Europe costing something other than a nice round number.

ALmost everything in the supermarkets here ends in a 9.  The salad I get is 
1.99, the carton of juice is 69, the bread roll is 19, the packet of 
chocolate is 1.29 etc.  But, the great thing is, those prices are the prices 
you pay at the till :-)  I still have memories of spending 5 minutes 
counting out all my leftover change in Chicago airport to exactly $4.39 (or 
whatever) to buy a meal from a fast-food place, only to be told I needed to 
pay $4.81 (even though the sign clearly said the meal was $4.39 in big 
writing).  Was a bit awkward.

Post a reply to this message