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re: It's time to retire the penny
Posted on 6/9/15 at 9:43 pm to Stonehog
Posted on 6/9/15 at 9:43 pm to Stonehog
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Depends on the total. For example, if a total comes to $1.96 or $1.97, round down to $1.95. So if you have the cashier $2.00, you would get back a nickel.
If a total comes to $1.98 or $1.99, round up to $2.00. So if you gave the cashier $2.00, you wouldn't get any change.
And you expect the average gas station/fast-food cashier to be able to figure that out?
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Posted on 6/9/15 at 9:49 pm to deltaland
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That sounds like an accounting nightmare when the actual money in hand at the end of the day doesn't match up to the sales amounts.
The IRS rounds to the nearest dollar, why shouldn't everyone else?
Posted on 6/10/15 at 1:13 pm to cardboardboxer
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If we start banning money then it's harder for you to welch on bets because there is nothing to bet with.
Probably welching on pixels's
Posted on 6/10/15 at 1:14 pm to harmonics
Hah. Keep it
Posted on 6/10/15 at 1:30 pm to Stonehog
Somebody has to do the rounding. All transactions in the country won't just automatically round themselves to the nearest nickle cause stonehog can't throw pennies in the feed Africa jar
Posted on 6/10/15 at 4:10 pm to Stonehog
No thanks. I like giving exact change. Pennies let me do that.
Posted on 6/10/15 at 4:17 pm to Stonehog
If we are going to get rid of pennies then gas stations have to get rid of that 9/10's bull shite.
Posted on 6/10/15 at 4:36 pm to Henry Jones Jr
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No thanks. I like giving exact change. Pennies let me do that.
If the total is rounded you could still give exact change.
Posted on 6/10/15 at 4:46 pm to Stonehog
Why would you force people to either pay more than what something is worth or less?
Posted on 6/10/15 at 4:50 pm to MrLarson
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gas stations have to get rid of that 9/10's bull shite.
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Posted on 6/10/15 at 4:53 pm to Cheese Grits
If we retire Penny, who will sing "soft kitty" to Sheldon?
Posted on 6/10/15 at 5:15 pm to Stonehog
Agree. I try and leave them with
the cashier when I get them. Or toss them on the ground walking out. Damn things are annoying tbh.
the cashier when I get them. Or toss them on the ground walking out. Damn things are annoying tbh.
Posted on 6/10/15 at 5:20 pm to MrLarson
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gas stations have to get rid of that 9/10's bull shite.
Why? It's not like you have to pay 9/10s. As far as you're concerned it's basically like paying 1c more per gallon and they give you a 1c discount every 10 gallons.
Posted on 6/10/15 at 5:46 pm to Henry Jones Jr
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Why would you force people to either pay more than what something is worth or less?
We're talking about pennies. The most you would ever "overpay" is two cents.
Posted on 6/10/15 at 7:16 pm to Stonehog
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We're talking about pennies. The most you would ever "overpay" is two cents.
You're still overpaying. It adds up.
Posted on 6/10/15 at 7:41 pm to Stonehog
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The totals would round up or down automatically. If something comes to 99 cents it just gets rounded to a dollar.
The only way I could see it being used and not causing a complicated mess would be if you used a pricing system that just charges all merchandise at .05 intervals..and states used sales taxes at either 0, 5%, or 10%, etc.
Posted on 6/10/15 at 7:59 pm to Henry Jones Jr
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You're still overpaying. It adds up.
No it doesn't, because you would also underpay for things. But the most you could ever underpay is two cents. It's a wash.
Posted on 6/10/15 at 9:00 pm to PrivatePublic
They might drop the banhammer on me for this.
You stupid fuking count. Please tell me the time you went to pay your bill at the pump and they allowed you to pay 9/10's of a mother fuking cent. Please tell me they handed you sheers that let you cut a mother fricking penny down.
You dumb bitch. frick all of it........grrrrr
You stupid fuking count. Please tell me the time you went to pay your bill at the pump and they allowed you to pay 9/10's of a mother fuking cent. Please tell me they handed you sheers that let you cut a mother fricking penny down.
You dumb bitch. frick all of it........grrrrr
Posted on 6/10/15 at 9:05 pm to MrLarson
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Please tell me the time you went to pay your bill at the pump and they allowed you to pay 9/10's of a mother fuking cent.
I am going to go out on a limb here and say any scheme by an oil company is aimed at profiting you not them. If you got just a few gallons they will round up in their favor so they get that extra 1/10th of a cent while making you think you got the benefit. This is the bigger issue, no modern corporation will round down when they can round up at every opportunity offered.
Posted on 6/10/15 at 11:15 pm to Stonehog
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