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6	An item, ability, or situation where a character can purchase items at a discount at shops. Sometimes, a store owner will give you one after you save the store from bandits, or for buying enough items, or there might be a [[MoneySpider monster inexplicably carrying one]]. (Maybe the monster saved the store from bandits earlier?)
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8	In some older VideoGames inspired by (or based on) ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'', having a high Charisma score would cause merchants to charge you less for items. Alternately, some [=RPGs=] allow you to negotiate the price on goods, and having a higher skill in the bargaining department may be able to get you the goods at a lower price than usual.
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10	Also, this tends to be one of the perks of a HundredPercentHeroismRating or a local favor in your AllianceMeter.
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12	Compare MoneyMultiplier, which makes purchasing easier from the other side, and ReducedResourceCost, which makes crafting or upgrading easier with less requirements.
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14	!!Examples:
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17	[[folder:Comic Books]]
18	* ''ComicBook/LaffALympics'': "The Discount of Monty Cristo" is a hypnotic discount card that allows Monty Cristo to buy things for virtually nothing. Dread Baron steals it and lets Hokey Wolf take the fall for it.
19	* According to ComicBook/SheHulk, the Avengers ID Card does get you 10% off at Starbucks.
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22	[[folder:Radio]]
23	* ''Radio/OurMissBrooks'': The episode "Christmas Gift Mixup" features a RunningGag where Mrs. Davis, Walter Denton, Mr. Boynton and Mr. Conklin give Miss Brooks "hints" as to what they'd like for Christmas. They helpfully relay the costs of their gifts, and lend Miss Brooks their "exclusive" savings card that gives sale prices at a local discount store.
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27	* ''VideoGame/AdvanceWars'':
28	** Hachi gets a 10% day-to-day discount for producing units, which is raised to 50% on the turn his [[LimitBreak CO Power or Super CO Power]]. The latter also lets him build land units at cities instead of bases, basically letting him instantly raise a whole army on the cheap.
29	** Colin always gets 20% off, but has a 10% penalty to attack. Which excellently compliments his CO Power ([[MoneyMultiplier which multiplies his possessed funds by one-and-a-half]]) and Super CO Power (which gives a damage boost proportional to funds you're carrying).
30	** Kanbei is the inverse of Colin: his units cost 20% ''more'' than standard, but have 20% or 30% increased attack and defense (depending on the game). As the defensive boost alone makes Kanbei's units almost absurdly durable, he's definitely getting his money's worth.
31	* ''VideoGame/BattleTech2018'' assesses your store prices based on your reputation with the local faction. Normally there's a 10% markup on new equipment, but if you are on good terms with the planet's ruling faction, you can receive items at-cost or even down to a 10% discount if you're on ''really'' good terms. This can be significant when your purchases measure in the millions. Conversely, piss off the ruling faction and you can expect markups of up to 50% instead. This is one reason that many players try to remain at least neutral with the resident pirates, as said pirates control the BlackMarket where all the nicest gear is, particularly the rare bits of LostTechnology such as advanced weapons and occasionally Star League-era 'Mechs.
32	* ''VideoGame/TheBindingOfIsaac''
33	** The valuable Platform/{{Steam}} Sale item reduces the prices of all items in shops for the rest of that playthrough. Strangely, the Steam Sale itself can appear in shops.
34	** ''[[VideoGameRemake Rebirth]]'' adds a variation in the form of the consumable Credit Card: using this item in a shop (or [[CastFromHitPoints Devil Room]]!) allows you to grab every item in the room for free.
35	* In ''VideoGame/BroodStar'', the Cunning Linguist module gives the player a discount on purchases from shops for the rest of the run.
36	* ''Franchise/{{Castlevania}}''
37	** In ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaOrderOfEcclesia'', Jacob gives Shanoa a VIP Card after she has spent 100,000 gold in his shop, it gives a 10% discount on all items in the shop
38	** In ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaAriaOfSorrow'', the {{Tsuchinoko}} soul gives a 20% discount on shop purchases. ''Finding'' the soul is another business, though...
39	* In ''VideoGame/ClashAtDemonhead'', on your 30th visit to the shop, all of the normally-rotating items are available for purchase, and you only have to pay half-price for them.
40	* In ''VideoGame/CryingSuns'', the Pirate Transponder auxiliary system gives you a 20% discount at all shops.
41	* ''VideoGame/CryptOfTheNecroDancer'': The Coupon item causes the next shop item touched to be purchased for free. This is especially useful for the hidden heart container shops, or for buying Plate Mail.
42	* In ''VideoGame/DeadlyPremonition'', doing sidequests for Lilly will get you increasingly good discount cards for the convenience store she owns.
43	* ''VideoGame/DeadRising2'' has two "Bargaining" magazines each providing 10% discount at pawn shops.
44	* ''VideoGame/DiabloII'', Act 2. After killing Radament, a mummy that has been preying on the citizens of Lut Gholein, Atma the tavernkeeper tells the player she's asked the other vendors in town to give you reduced prices on goods as a gesture of thanks.
45	* ''VideoGame/Disgaea2'': Having at least one character with an active Felony count will incur a discount when making purchases at the shop, at the rate of 1% per felony (capping at 33%). However, this also grants the same increase in sale price, meaning you can sell items for more than what you purchased them for.
46	* ''VideoGame/DivinityOriginalSin'' and ''[[VideoGame/DivinityOriginalSinII Original Sin II]]'': Each vendor's prices are reduced by the player character's [[SkillScoresAndPerks Bartering score]] and {{Relationship Value\|s}} with the vendor.
47	* ''VideoGame/DragonQuest''
48	** In ''VideoGame/DragonQuestII'', getting the Gold Card with extreme luck in a slot machine will lower the price of items in all shops by 25%.
49	** In ''VideoGame/DragonQuestV'', getting a gold ball in a [[BettingMiniGame tombola drawing]] will net you a "Loyalty Card" that lowers the price of items in all shops by 20%.
50	* In ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIIDaggerfall'', what fits most closely with this are the first benefits for joining the Fighters Guild and the Order of Arkay -- cheaper weapon/armor-repair and disease-healing, respectively. Many of the joinable factions make something free (at least eventually), but only those give a non-100% discount.
51	* ''VideoGame/EtrianOdysseyIIITheDrownedCity'' has Coupons, which slash one item's price in half - it's up to you whether you use it to purchase the InfinityPlusOneSword or a basic Medica. Also, you will only find eight of them. Ever. NewGamePlus ''does not'' restock them, so choose wisely.
52	* ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'':
53	** The Barter skill allows you to buy from vendors at closer to cost as well as sell items to them at closer to their true worth. It can also be used in speech challenges when bribing an NPC or getting them to part with information for less than they'd normally charge you. ''VideoGame/Fallout4'' lacks skill scores, and so bases both directly off the Charisma stat and your rank in the Cap Collector perk.
54	** Merchants occasionally offer discounts for helping them out or [[AllianceMeter having a favorable reputation with their affiliated area]]. In Goodsprings, the starting town in ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'', you can get a discount from the bartender for fixing her radio.
55	* ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'':
56	** In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI'', having Edgar in your party will allow you to receive 50% discount when buying from the merchants in Figaro Castle.
57	** In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIII'', Tonberry possesses abilities that allow you to receive discounts and sell for a higher price at every shop in the game.
58	** O'aka from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX'' can offer you discounts on the items he sells if you have lend him enough money (his prices are usually higher than other shops).
59	** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX2'' made it possible for O'aka to be a source of infinite money, since once you pay off his debt by buying overpriced items, he starts selling certain items at prices lower than what you'd sell them to him for.
60	* In ''VideoGame/FireEmblem'', the Silver Card halves the prices of items in shops when held by the buyer.
61	* One event in ''VideoGame/FTLFasterThanLight'' lets you turn your scrap into a random weapon, augmentation or a drone schematic, but if you bring along a Lanius crewmember, you can use them to reduce the price.
62	* Scoring medals in all Ammu-Nation Shooting Range missions in ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV'' as one character will grant a permanent discount on all weapons at Ammu-Nation - 10% for just clearing all missions, 15% for clearing all missions with Silver or higher, and a permanent 25% discount for getting every Gold medal. You can do this with Michael, Trevor, and Franklin, giving you a discount for all three characters.
63	* In ''VideoGame/{{Hades}}'', winning a {{Superboss}} battle against [[ShopliftAndDie Charon]] will give you his Loyalty Card for that run, reducing the cost of items in his shops by 20%.
64	* ''VideoGame/IntoSpace'': Each Expensive achievement in the first game lowers prices of upgrades by 5%.
65	* ''VideoGame/KingdomOfLoathing'' has the LARP Membership card, from one of the Halloween events, that gives a 10% discount at stores that sell food and/or drink. Accordion Thieves can get a 5% discount from nearly every store in the game (except those that [[GlobalCurrencyException don't use Meat]]) with the passive skill Five Finger Discount.
66	* ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda''
67	** In ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask'', the Ghost Hut in Ikana Canyon normally costs you 30 rupees, but if you play the Song of Healing before talking to the proprietor, you will only be charged 10. Also, Tingle will sell you his maps at a discounted rate if you purchase them in the place they're a map of. (i.e. A map of Great Bay will cost less if purchased in Great Bay.)
68	** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaPhantomHourglass'' and ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaSpiritTracks'' have discount cards to Beedle's shop.
69	** Mocked hilariously and ''ruthlessly'' in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheWindWaker'' with the "Complimentary ID" and the equivalent "Compliment Card" in ''Phantom Hourglass'' you are given if you purchase enough items from Beedle's Shop. You would expect it to be some manner of discount card, but it ''literally'' makes him just shower you in compliments, healing you to full health, and finish with remarking that praise is rather nice sometimes.
70	* ''VideoGame/LunarLux'': Bella can interact with citizens and perform sidequests to raise the affinity of an colony, which grants discounts at the colony's shops.
71	* In the ''VideoGame/MarioAndLuigi'' games, your 'Stache (Horn for Bowser in ''[[VideoGame/MarioAndLuigiBowsersInsideStory Bowser's Inside Story]]'') stat gets you a discount (as well as increases your chance of a CriticalHit).
72	* ''Franchise/MassEffect''
73	** In ''VideoGame/MassEffect1'', putting enough points into charm skill gets you a tiny discount in shops. Likewise putting points in intimidation skill gives extra credits when selling items.
74	** In ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'', Shepard can get a discount from stores by convincing the shop keepers. In The Citadel's case, they can get discounts there by giving the store an endorsement, saying it's their favorite store on The Citadel. Funnily enough, this can be done with ALL the stores on the Citadel.
75	* Find Auto's bolt in ''VideoGame/MegaMan7'' and everything will sell for half off.
76	* In ''VideoGame/MegaManLegends 1'' and ''2'', if you do nice things like donating money, repairing cities, kicking trash to the garbage can, Roll will offer discounts on your upgrades/purchases, as well as getting a lighter armor.
77	* In ''VideoGame/MegaManX8'', there's a Metal Discount Rare Metal hidden in Earthrock Trilobyte's stage, and it costs 5,000 Metals to make when it's found, but it will provide a 10% discount on all chips in the R&D Lab.
78	* In ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4GunsOfThePatriots'', Drebin 893 will offer Old Snake a 20% discount if your game clock is currently on Sunday or Wednesday. During Act 5, he cuts all prices in half due to the slump.
79	%%* ''VideoGame/NaziZombies'' has Fire Sale and Bonfire Sale
80	* ''VideoGame/NoUmbrellasAllowed'': When appraising items, some cards lower their base prices, making them cheaper to buy. However, items still get tagged with them after being purchased, so their lowered base prices affect how much higher you can resell them for your secondhand store.
81	* ''VideoGame/OctopathTravelerII'': Partitio's Nighttime Path Action "Hire" allows him to hire various [=NPCs=]. Besides being able to participate in battles, [=NPCs=] that are hired by him can also provide discounts at shops (although you first buy the items for full price and then the discount would be refunded to you) or inns.
82	* ''VideoGame/PaperMarioTheOrigamiKing'': Spend enough coins at a shop and you'll get the Membership Card accessory, which you can equip before shopping for discounted prices on everything. Spending even more upgrades it to the Silver and Gold Membership Cards, with the Gold one giving a 50% discount on everything.
83	* ''Franchise/{{Persona}}''
84	** In ''VideoGame/Persona3'', shops will give a discount on their wares on certain days.
85	** In ''VideoGame/Persona4'', Shiroku will give discounts on rainy days and Margaret will give discounts depending on how much of the Persona Compendium you have completed. ''Golden'' has Daidara giving discounts if you catch him still in his store on rainy nights.
86	** Caroline and Justine in ''VideoGame/Persona5'' will discount you on not only Persona Compendium summoning depending on completion, but also for fusing the highest leveled Personas if you max out their Confidant.
87	* ''VideoGame/PokemonBlackAndWhite'': some Pass Powers include getting discounts at stores at a certain rate for 3 minutes.
88	** ''VideoGame/PokemonXAndY'' has the similar "Bargain" O-Power, which grants a 10%, 25% or 50% discount on items for 3 minutes depending on the power's level. In addition, there's the event-only Discount Coupon item, which grants a discount when shopping for clothes.
89	* ''VideoGame/{{Potionomics}}'': leveling up the relationships with characters will eventually lead to them giving you discount coupons.
90	* In ''VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption'', you receive discounts and sell for more if your [[KarmaMeter honor]] level is high enough.
91	* ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil4Remake'': Played straight and inverted; various charms will reduce repair or upgrade costs or increase the prices of items sold to the Merchant.
92	* The ''VideoGame/RollerCoasterTycoon'' series had an inversion as you could give out vouchers for free rides on a certain ride, free food or drink, half-price/free entrance to the park. It costs money to run the marketing campaigns but it entices a lot more guests to visit, useful if the scenario required a certain amount of guests.
93	* ''VideoGame/RustysRealDealBaseball'' lets you drive down the real-world price of each of its minigames. For the games that are required to buy to advance the plot, you have to give Rusty a donut, give the right responses to his dialog, and possibly give him an item that you earn from playing the games in order to get the lowest possible price. For the other games, you have to use discount coupons that you earn from playing the games or [=StreetPassing=] other players.
94	* ''VideoGame/SandcastleBuilder'' sometimes has a randomly provided boost that gives a 40% discount to all shop purchases. It helps at times when dealing with hard-to-get resources, but gives no benefit for items that cost an infinite amount of a given resource.
95	* In the ''VideoGame/ShadowHearts'' series, collecting discount cards lets you try to get goods cheaper, but the discount isn't automatically applied. You have to win a minigame, which gets harder the more you're trying to reduce the price. If you mess up, you have to pay the full amount. The maximum you can try for is normally 10% per card collected.
96	* In ''VideoGame/AShortHike'' two stamina powerups, Golden Feathers, can be purchased for 40 coins each at the Visitor Center. The vendor remarks that "a boy" purchased all the other feathers. Upon reaching the entrance to the final area you find this boy, who talks to you rudely and sells four Golden Feathers for 100 coins each, a 2.5x markup! If you go through one of his dialog trees you discover he's stressed about paying off his college tuition of 400 coins. You can choose to donate 400 coins, and will receive a trading item that later results in a powerful stamina upgrade. If you do this before purchasing any feathers your kindness is rewarded further, as the boy sells all subsequent feathers for the normal 40 coin price thus saving the player up to 240 coins.
97	* In the console ''VideoGame/{{Skylanders}}'' games, every Winged Sapphire you collect gives you a 2% discount on all items and upgrades.
98	* ''VideoGame/SlayTheSpire'': Membership Card cuts all prices by 50%, The Courier cuts all prices by 20% and automatically restocks anything that is bought with another item, and Smiling Mask sets the cost of deleting cards to 50 gold.
99	* ''VideoGame/StarWarsKnightsOfTheOldRepublic'': If you hand the rakghoul serum over to the kindly doctor running the free clinic instead of the crime boss, the doctor gives you a discount at his shop. Now, seeing that you have low hit points at this juncture and can't self-heal, this is more useful than it looks, especially if you can shake down the inexhaustable Pazaak shark in the Lower City.
100	* In ''VideoGame/SystemShock2'', one OS upgrade makes items from replicators cost 20% less nanites. Individual replicators can also be hacked to give an extra discount and also replace a junk item with a more useful one.[[note]]Hacking costs nanites, but the amount needed is small enough that the discount will make it pay off.[[/note]]
101	* Some ''VideoGame/{{Tales\|Series}}'' series games feature consumables that reduce prices next time you shop while others have a "shop rating" score (either universal or individual to each shop) that goes up as you do business. A higher shop rating increases your discount, representing either a "frequent customer" discount or the party getting better at haggling.
102	* ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'': In Mann vs Machine, Medics can purchase upgrades for their Medigun that would discount the price of Power Up Canteens to a minimum of 5 credits.
103	* ''VideoGame/{{Terraria}}'' has the discount card which, as its name implies, gives you a discount on ''all'' shops by 20%. This is a rare drop by Pirates during a pirate invasion and takes up an accessory slot to get the discount. Normally it wouldn't be anything too major, but since some items are completely unique to NPC vendors such as purification powder, yellow pressure plates (a unique variant of pressure plate not found in a game world), and certain crafting tables as well as some items being findable but rare like bullets, this item is actually very helpful for maintaining an inventory.
104	* ''VideoGame/ToontownCorporateClash'': Completing certain Kudos tasks will grant you a discount on buying gags in that playground: 15% at rank 3, 30% at rank 6, and 50% at rank 9.
105	* ''VideoGame/{{Tradewinds}} Legends'' has the Hydra Head item, that scares merchants so bad they give you a discount just to make you take it away.
106	** ''Tradewinds Odyssey'' also has the Frequent Customer card for the shipyard and drydocks.
107	* ''VideoGame/UltimaII'' uses Charisma to make merchants sell their items to you at a discount.
108	* ''VideoGame/{{Warframe}}''
109	** One of potential [[PlayEveryDay daily tributes]] is a coupon that gives between 20% and 75% discount on the next [[{{Microtransactions}} platinum purchase]].
110	** Played straight and inverted with Railjack Crew Members provided by Ticker on Fortuna; depending on your AllianceMeter with Syndicates, certain crew members will either have a discount or increased prices on their costs.
111	* Players in ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'', as their reputation with a given faction goes up, receive increasing discounts on items bought from NPC vendors associated with that faction, up to 20% at Exalted reputation. Goblin players in particular always receive Exalted-level discounts regardless of their reputation, unless the vendor has no affiliations. Further, players in a sufficiently high-leveled guild receive a 10% bonus on all vendor purchases on top of applicable reputation bonuses.
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115	* ''{{Website/Neopets}}'' used to offer in-game discount cards to players who signed up for various advertising offers.
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118	[[folder:Western Animation]]
119	* ''WesternAnimation/TheAvengersEarthsMightiestHeroes'': After receiving an Avengers ID card, Spider-man asks if it can get him discounts anywhere.
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122	[[folder:Real Life]]
123	* Sales, coupons, membership discounts, etc. are ways people can get discounts for services.
124	* Military ID cards. You would be ''amazed'' at the discounts, freebies, and special services you will be offered if you whip one of these out.
125	* Student ID cards can provide students discounts at certain stores.
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