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When the screaming infomercial finally reaches the point of telling you the price you can be sure that price won't be a round number. Nothing will be sold for $10.00, $50.00 or $100.00. Every price will end with .95, .98 or .99.
 
[[Truth in Television|This trope isn't restricted to TV commercials]]. Real world pricing follows this trend as well, and [[Grandfather Clause|has for a long time]]. Called "just-under pricing", this is [[Viewers Areare Morons|a psychological tactic to make an item seem cheaper than it actually is]]. Gas stations even go so far as to price gasoline in tenths of a cent. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_pricing See also] [[The Other Wiki]].
 
Another possibility is that this method of pricing was originally designed to prevent cashiers from pocketing payments. A price ending with .99 almost guarantees that the cashier will need to open the register to get change, which then logs the sale in the register.
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== [[Web Original]] ==
* ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!: theThe Abridged Series (Web Video)|Yu-Gi-Oh the Abridged Series]]'' has Kaiba inform Joey that "That costs you [[Sony|five hundred]] [[PS 3|and ninety-nine]] [[Memetic Mutation|U.S. Life Points]]".
 
== [[Western Animation]] ==
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