2007-03-31 12:52:35 · 11 answers · asked by guerrai 1 in Cars & Transportation ➔ Maintenance & Repairs
Another 9/10 of a cent. 2.59 9/10 is actually 2.599 cents. Dealers used it in the past to fool people into thinking that their price was a cent lower than another station's. It caught on and everyone started doing it and it stuck.
It is the same idea as pricing something at $99.99. Why not make it $100? Well, $99.99 sounds much cheaper.
2007-03-31 12:56:50 · answer #1 · answered by Barkley Hound 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It means 9 tenths of a cent. It is just a clever ruse to make people think they are spending a penny lower than the price. for example $3.99 9/10 for gas tries to make think you are paying less than $4.00 a gallon for gas. The 9/10th really adds up when the company is selling thousands, or millions of dollars worth of the item. I think that breaking of a cent into tenths start back in the 1930's or 1940's when the government used it for collecting taxes but it could have been even before that time.
2007-03-31 13:10:06 · answer #2 · answered by old_school_granma 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
All it means is that the gas station operator is making an extra 9/10ths of a cent off of you. Most people don't even look at the 9/10 after the price. And all of these gas stations are making a nickel a gallon on gas ???? Any time that prices go up, that is what they say. I say they are full of crap. They are all in cahoots and we just get bent over and have the pump shoved up our ***.
2007-03-31 13:06:17 · answer #3 · answered by pro619 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If the stated price for a gallon of gas is $2.49&9/10 the 9/10 means your paying $2.49 and 9/10th's of a cent per gallon.
2007-03-31 12:57:28 · answer #4 · answered by geezerrex 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It mean that you are basically paying another cent for gasoline. Not that it really matters because you are paying that extra cent at every station, so the comparison is the same.
they do this to make the price look lower, because 2.99 seems much lower than 3.00. Im not really sure why, but i guess it is mental?
2007-03-31 13:01:08 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
9 tenths of a cent so if gas is 2.99 and 9/10 you're pretty much payin 3 bucks a gallon but you are saving one cent for every 10 gallons you pump.Why they do it I don't know
2007-03-31 12:59:44 · answer #6 · answered by spraymonkey001 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
9/10ths of a cent more than the actual price. Just like $1999 seems like a whole lot less than $2000, $2.189 seems a whole lot less than $2.190
2007-03-31 13:01:21 · answer #7 · answered by jlee1224 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've always understood it to mean 9/10 of a cent, so when the sign reads $2.30, it basically means $2.31
2007-03-31 12:57:39 · answer #8 · answered by cowgirl_mechanic_83 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, everyone else who answered said what I was going to say-- it's the gas companies' way of tricking you into thinking that you are paying less than you really are-- only it's not a trick-- the price is boldly displayed, but we don't think about it carefully enough.
2007-03-31 13:04:02 · answer #9 · answered by ladsmrt 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It means .9 cents
2007-03-31 12:56:36 · answer #10 · answered by berla44 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋