Questions tagged [price]
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The origin of "99 cents"
I've seen two competing theories on the origin of pricing products at $.99 (i.e. charging $19.99 instead of $20, of $5.99 instead of $6):
Psychological pricing scheme used by retailers to make products seem one dollar…
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Do airlines increase price on repeat visits?
Where I live in the UK it is a common statement that looking around on comparison websites such as GoCompare or holiday websites such as BritishAirways will result in them using various methods to identify who is checking and raise the price when…
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Have textbook prices in the US more than doubled in the last 15 years?
The above chart was recently published on Reddit.
( Source: r/dataisbeautiful )
The author of the reddit thread cites the following data sources:
Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers: Recreational books
Consumer Price Index for All Urban…
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Did a Yu-Gi-Oh tournament prize card sell for $2 million USD?
I recently learned about a prize given out for the first ever Yu-gi-oh tournament in Japan in 1999, a stainless steel normal monster Black Luster Soldier. In numerous online english-language articles, the card is cited as being sold for $2 million…
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Is the 2-3-fold rise in HDD price an effect of false shortage?
Beyond any doubt Thailand floods have affected HDD market. However, some analysts say that the effect on the market should be a 10-30% price increase. Meanwhile in the consumer market the increase is 150-300%.
source: Idealo
There are claims that…
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Psychological pricing: reducing theft?
Possible Duplicate:
The origin of “99 cents”
On Wikipedia, the article for psychological pricing (ending prices in -99 or similar) gives the following suggestion for why it is done, as opposed to the psychological aspect behind it.
Others have…
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Would a no-deal Brexit cause the grocery shopping bill of an average UK family to rise by £800/year?
The claim is:
Brexit: No-deal outcome could force shopping bills up by £800 a year, says union
Tariffs imposed under WTO rules would increase the price of everyday goods such as butter, cheese and potatoes, analysis finds
The cost of a family’s…
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Are the iPhone 4's manufacturing costs $178?
Here it is alleged that the iPhone 4 has a large mark-up from manufacturing.
Are these figures true? What is the evidence behind this claim?
NB: I mean the manufacturing costs. Not including marketing-development-distribution.
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