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re: How long ago did Fanis dad buy lunch for the three of them for $9.95?
Posted on 2/17/24 at 9:25 am to NC_Tigah
Posted on 2/17/24 at 9:25 am to NC_Tigah
Except $9.95 is a weird number for things to just happen to total to.
It is an expected price for a single item (9.95 or 9.99 for just under $10). But ordering multiple items to get that total... Either everything is priced to the nickel (plausible but still unusual to get to a $9.95 final tally) or they ordered exactly 5 items with a $x.x9 style price.
Knowing nothing else, that number would set off internal red flags that the person is probably making up a lie on the spot.
Caveat: I don't know the context and didn't watch any testimony.
p.s.: interesting seeing McDonalds prices from 1979. Just the other day I heard someone in an interview claim that in parts of California a value meal is up to $18. yikes.
It is an expected price for a single item (9.95 or 9.99 for just under $10). But ordering multiple items to get that total... Either everything is priced to the nickel (plausible but still unusual to get to a $9.95 final tally) or they ordered exactly 5 items with a $x.x9 style price.
Knowing nothing else, that number would set off internal red flags that the person is probably making up a lie on the spot.
Caveat: I don't know the context and didn't watch any testimony.
p.s.: interesting seeing McDonalds prices from 1979. Just the other day I heard someone in an interview claim that in parts of California a value meal is up to $18. yikes.
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Posted on 2/17/24 at 9:32 am to M. A. Ryland
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Except $9.95 is a weird number for things to just happen to total to.
May have been a family special somewhere. 3 for $9.95.
Posted on 2/17/24 at 9:42 am to M. A. Ryland
Pretax? A lot of items end in 95 or 99. But after tax is added it ends up at an odd number.
The exceptions to that are when a business will price an item with tax in mind so that it comes out to an even dollar amount. A store may make a drink about $1.81 so that it totals out to $2 even after tax.
My guess is that he pulled an amount out of his arse based on the likely pretax cost of the meal.
The exceptions to that are when a business will price an item with tax in mind so that it comes out to an even dollar amount. A store may make a drink about $1.81 so that it totals out to $2 even after tax.
My guess is that he pulled an amount out of his arse based on the likely pretax cost of the meal.
Posted on 2/17/24 at 9:43 am to M. A. Ryland
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Just the other day I heard someone in an interview claim that in parts of California a value meal is up to $18. yikes.
Areas like SF or near areas like Yosemite which may only be open part of the year tend to have much higher prices than in LA.
But the average combo in LA, for a medium, is still in the $10-12 range at McD depending on what you are getting.
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