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{{quote|"''Have you ever noticed how things cost...seven dollars and ninety-nine cents? Fourteen dollars ''and'' ninety-nine cents? ''Ninety-nine'' dollars ''and'' ninety-nine cents?''"|'''Steve Rhoades''', ''[[Married... Withwith Children]]''}}
 
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.
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== Film ==
* ''[[Back to Thethe Future (Filmfilm)|Back to The Future]]'' part II featured automobile hover-conversions, "only thirty-nine, nine ninety-nine, ninety-five!" ($39,999.95)
* In ''[[Clerks]]'', Dante remarks that all prices end in 0.99.
** And yet in the background, all the prices end with the number five.
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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* ''[[Look Around You]]'' shows a machine with a price tag of £999.99½p.
* ''[[Married... Withwith Children]]'' satirized this when Steve, a bank manager, told Al about his idea about a 99 cent coin to make purchases easier. Of course Al mentions the sales tax which is added to the price, making the coin no better than a dollar bill.
** most countries have the sales tax already in the listed price. so he might consider going abroad.
* An episode of ''The Antiques Roadshow'' featured an old Sindy doll from the 1960s. The original price was so-many shillings and 11 pence. There was 12 old pence in a shilling, making this the pre-decimal version of the trope.
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== [[Web Original]] ==
* ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Abridged Series (Web Video)|Yu-Gi-Oh the Abridged Series]]'' has Kaiba inform Joey that "That costs you [[Sony|five hundred]] [[PSPlay Station 3|and ninety-nine]] [[Memetic Mutation|U.S. Life Points]]".
 
== [[Western Animation]] ==
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