Re: I may be crazy

On 8 Jun 2011 23:22:50 GMT, flaps@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Alan J Rosenthal)
wrote:

The customer knows, when they see an
advertised price of $2, that it's really $2.26 or whatever.

It's the whatever that's annoying. Uncertainty, unless a discount is being
applied, is bad. It primes people to lose faith in the accuracy of
advertised prices instead of demanding they be accurate. It gets them used
to sellers charging whatever the hell they want instead of what they said
they would charge.

It means that a shop can advertise a price below what their competitor is
advertising and actually charge more at the till than that competitor.

I admit that in the unlikely event the US Congress and Senate go
collectively insane and allow me to set US policy in general, deceptive
pricing practices (amongst many other things) would be out on their ear.
Industry would just have to adjust to telling the truth.


-SteveD
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