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'''Basic Trope''': Items sell for a single unit of currency under the full price to make them feel cheaper.
* '''Straight''': Shops of Troperia sells an item for $19.99
* '''Exaggerated''': Shops of Troperia sells an item for $19.99999999999999
* '''Downplayed''': Shops of Troperia sells an item for $19
* '''Straight''': Shops of Troperia sells an item for $19.99
* '''Exaggerated''': Shops of Troperia sells an item for $19.99999999999999
* '''Downplayed''': Shops of Troperia sells an item for $19
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'''Basic Trope''': Items sell for are priced slightly below a single unit of currency under round number to create the full price to make them feel cheaper.
perception of a lower cost.
* '''Straight''': The Shops of Troperia sells an item for $19.99
99.
* '''Exaggerated''': The Shops of Troperia sells an item for $19.99999999999999
99999999999999.
*'''Downplayed''': '''Logical Extreme''': The Shops of Troperia sells an item for $19$19.99,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999.
* '''Downplayed''': The Shops of Troperia sells an item for $19.
* '''Straight''': The Shops of Troperia sells an item for $19.
* '''Exaggerated''': The Shops of Troperia sells an item for $19.
*
* '''Downplayed''': The Shops of Troperia sells an item for $19.
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** They want to make the item feel cheaper, because people round down the price in their mind.
** They want to make sure employees are actually opening the till (proving it by reaching for change) and not just pocketing payments.
* '''Inverted''': Shops of Troperia sells an item for $20.01
** They want to make sure employees are actually opening the till (proving it by reaching for change) and not just pocketing payments.
* '''Inverted''': Shops of Troperia sells an item for $20.01
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** They want to make the item feel cheaper, because as people tend to round down the price in their mind.
** They want tomake sure ensure that employees are actually opening open the till (proving it cash register by reaching for change) and not just providing change rather than pocketing payments.
the payment.
* '''Inverted''': The Shops of Troperia sells an item for $20.0101.
** They want to
* '''Inverted''': The Shops of Troperia sells an item for $20.
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** Shops of Troperia adds one cent to the purchase price before the item is bought.
** The tax makes the item over a round number
** There is a flat 1¢ sales tax on every item sold, rounding it off ''exactly''.
** The tax makes the item over a round number
** There is a flat 1¢ sales tax on every item sold, rounding it off ''exactly''.
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** The Shops of Troperia adds one cent to the purchase price just before the item is bought.
** Thetax makes the item over item's price, when including sales tax, exceeds a round number
number.
**There is a A flat 1¢ sales tax on is applied to every item sold, rounding it off ''exactly''.resulting in a rounded-off price.
** The
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** The price is $19.999... with an infinite amount of 9's, which is actually exactly equal to $20
** The Troperian Mint brings out a 99¢ coin for convenience's sake.
* '''Zig Zagged''': Shops of Troperia keeps changing the price, making it sometimes $19.99 and sometimes $20.
* '''Averted''': The items are priced at round numbers, instead of prices ending in 9
** The Troperian Mint brings out a 99¢ coin for convenience's sake.
* '''Zig Zagged''': Shops of Troperia keeps changing the price, making it sometimes $19.99 and sometimes $20.
* '''Averted''': The items are priced at round numbers, instead of prices ending in 9
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** The price is $19.999... with an infinite amount number of 9's, which is actually exactly equal mathematically equivalent to $20
$20.
** The Troperian Mintbrings out introduces a 99¢ coin for convenience's sake.
the sake of convenience.
* '''Zig Zagged''': The Shops of Troperia keeps changing the price,making it sometimes alternating between $19.99 and sometimes $20.
* '''Averted''': The items are priced at roundnumbers, numbers instead of prices ending in 99.
** The Troperian Mint
* '''Zig Zagged''': The Shops of Troperia keeps changing the price,
* '''Averted''': The items are priced at round
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* '''Lampshaded''': "Why do prices always end in nines?
* '''Invoked''': Someone offers to reduce the price by one cent to make it appear cheaper.
* '''Exploited''': ???
* '''Defied''': Someone asks to increase the price by one cent, making it a round number.
* '''Discussed''': ???
* '''Invoked''': Someone offers to reduce the price by one cent to make it appear cheaper.
* '''Exploited''': ???
* '''Defied''': Someone asks to increase the price by one cent, making it a round number.
* '''Discussed''': ???
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* '''Lampshaded''': "Why do prices always end in nines?
nines?"
* '''Invoked''':Someone A savvy salesperson offers to reduce the price by one cent to make it appear cheaper.
create the perception of a lower cost.
* '''Exploited''':???
A crafty shopper uses the pricing strategy to negotiate a further discount on an item.
* '''Defied''': Someoneasks to increase suggests increasing the price by one cent, making cent to make it a round number.
*'''Discussed''': ???'''Discussed''':
-->Bob: "Have you noticed how most stores price their items with prices ending in one or more nines in the cents place to make them look cheaper?"
-->Alice: "Yeah, it's a common marketing tactic."
* '''Invoked''':
* '''Exploited''':
* '''Defied''': Someone
*
-->Bob: "Have you noticed how most stores price their items with prices ending in one or more nines in the cents place to make them look cheaper?"
-->Alice: "Yeah, it's a common marketing tactic."
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* '''Implied''': After an item is bought, the amount of money in they bank account goes from $545.67 to $525.68
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* '''Implied''': After purchasing an item is bought, item, the amount of money in they character's bank account goes balance decreases from $545.67 to $525.68
68, suggesting the item's cost was just below a round number.
* '''Played for Laughs''': The Shops of Troperia sells an item for $19.99, but the character comically insists that it's practically giving it away for free.
* '''Played for Drama''': The protagonist, struggling with financial difficulties, becomes emotionally overwhelmed when the price of an item is one cent higher than they expected, symbolizing their financial strain.
* '''Played for Laughs''': The Shops of Troperia sells an item for $19.99, but the character comically insists that it's practically giving it away for free.
* '''Played for Drama''': The protagonist, struggling with financial difficulties, becomes emotionally overwhelmed when the price of an item is one cent higher than they expected, symbolizing their financial strain.
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* '''Double Subverted''': ...But then they decide to reduce the price by one cent to maintain this trope
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* '''Double Subverted''': ...But then they decide to reduce the price by one cent to maintain this tropetrope.
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** There is a 1¢ sales tax on every item sold, rounding it off ''exactly''.
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** There is a flat 1¢ sales tax on every item sold, rounding it off ''exactly''.
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** There is a 1¢ sales tax on every item sold, rounding it off ''exactly''.
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** There is a 1¢ 1¢ sales tax on every item sold, rounding it off ''exactly''.
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** The Troperian Mint brings out a 99 cent coin for convenience's sake.
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** The Troperian Mint brings out a 99 cent 99¢ coin for convenience's sake.
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* '''Justified''': They want to make the item feel cheaper, because people round down the price in their mind.
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* '''Justified''': '''Justified''':
** They want to make the item feel cheaper, because people round down the price in theirmind.mind.
** They want to make sure employees are actually opening the till (proving it by reaching for change) and not just pocketing payments.
** They want to make the item feel cheaper, because people round down the price in their
** They want to make sure employees are actually opening the till (proving it by reaching for change) and not just pocketing payments.
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* '''Parodied''': The price is $19.999... with an infinite amount of 9's, which is actually exactly equal to $20
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* '''Parodied''': '''Parodied''':
** The price is $19.999... with an infinite amount of 9's, which is actually exactly equal to$20$20
** The Troperian Mint brings out a 99 cent coin for convenience's sake.
** The price is $19.999... with an infinite amount of 9's, which is actually exactly equal to
** The Troperian Mint brings out a 99 cent coin for convenience's sake.
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* '''Lampshaded''': "Why are prices always one cent less than a round number?"
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* '''Lampshaded''': "Why are do prices always one cent less than a round number?"end in nines?
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* '''Defied''': Someone offers for the prices to be more round numbers.
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* '''Defied''': Someone offers for asks to increase the prices to be more price by one cent, making it a round numbers.number.
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* '''Deconstructed''': People often don't have enough money to buy something, leading to overdrawing a bank account frequently.
* '''Reconstructed''': People mentally round up the prices in their head.
* '''Reconstructed''': People mentally round up the prices in their head.
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* '''Reconstructed''': People mentally round up the prices in their head.
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* '''Parodied''': The price is $19.999... with an infinite amount of 9's, which is actu exactly equal to $20
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* '''Parodied''': The price is $19.999... with an infinite amount of 9's, which is actu actually exactly equal to $20
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* '''Logical Extreme''': The price is $19.999... with an infinite amount of 9's, which is exactly equal to $20
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* '''Enforced''': Most stores in real life do that.
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* '''Enforced''': Most stores in real life do that.TruthInTelevision.
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* '''Logical Extreme''': The price is $19.999... with an infinite amount of 9's, which is exactly equal to $20
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* '''Invoked''': ???Someone offers to reduce the price by one cent to make it appear cheaper.
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* '''Defied''': ???Someone offers for the prices to be more round numbers.
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* '''Implied''': After an item is bought, the most significant digits of the amount of money go down, but the cents place value goes up by 1.
* '''Implied''': After an item is bought, the most significant digits of the amount of money go down, but the cents place value goes up by 1.
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* '''Conversed''': ???
"In most stores, the prices end in one or more nines in the cents place to make them look cheaper."
* '''Implied''': After an item is bought, themost significant digits of the amount amount of money go down, but the cents place value in they bank account goes from $545.67 to $525.68
* '''Deconstructed''': People often don't have enough money to buy something, leading to overdrawing a bank account frequently.
* '''Reconstructed''': People mentally round upby 1.the prices in their head.
* '''Implied''': After an item is bought, the
* '''Deconstructed''': People often don't have enough money to buy something, leading to overdrawing a bank account frequently.
* '''Reconstructed''': People mentally round up
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'''Basic Trope''': Items sell for a single unit of currency under the full price to make them feel cheaper.
* '''Straight''': Shops of Troperia sells an item for $19.99
* '''Exaggerated''': Shops of Troperia sells an item for $19.99999999999999
* '''Downplayed''': Shops of Troperia sells an item for $19
* '''Justified''': They want to make the item feel cheaper, because people round down the price in their mind.
* '''Inverted''': Shops of Troperia sells an item for $20.01
* '''Subverted''':
** Shops of Troperia adds one cent to the purchase price before the item is bought.
** The tax makes the item over a round number
* '''Double Subverted''': ...But then they decide to reduce the price by one cent to maintain this trope
* '''Parodied''': ???
* '''Zig Zagged''': Shops of Troperia keeps changing the price, making it sometimes $19.99 and sometimes $20.
* '''Averted''': The items are priced at round numbers, instead of prices ending in 9
* '''Enforced''': Most stores in real life do that.
* '''Lampshaded''': "Why are prices always one cent less than a round number?"
* '''Invoked''': ???
* '''Exploited''': ???
* '''Defied''': ???
* '''Discussed''': ???
* '''Conversed''': ???
* '''Implied''': After an item is bought, the most significant digits of the amount of money go down, but the cents place value goes up by 1.
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* '''Straight''': Shops of Troperia sells an item for $19.99
* '''Exaggerated''': Shops of Troperia sells an item for $19.99999999999999
* '''Downplayed''': Shops of Troperia sells an item for $19
* '''Justified''': They want to make the item feel cheaper, because people round down the price in their mind.
* '''Inverted''': Shops of Troperia sells an item for $20.01
* '''Subverted''':
** Shops of Troperia adds one cent to the purchase price before the item is bought.
** The tax makes the item over a round number
* '''Double Subverted''': ...But then they decide to reduce the price by one cent to maintain this trope
* '''Parodied''': ???
* '''Zig Zagged''': Shops of Troperia keeps changing the price, making it sometimes $19.99 and sometimes $20.
* '''Averted''': The items are priced at round numbers, instead of prices ending in 9
* '''Enforced''': Most stores in real life do that.
* '''Lampshaded''': "Why are prices always one cent less than a round number?"
* '''Invoked''': ???
* '''Exploited''': ???
* '''Defied''': ???
* '''Discussed''': ???
* '''Conversed''': ???
* '''Implied''': After an item is bought, the most significant digits of the amount of money go down, but the cents place value goes up by 1.
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