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In my waking moments I am often ticking off a mental todo list for the day to come. Today's had 'Fill the car up.' on it so that triggered 'Best place to buy fuel'..then I got to thinking about those pricing signs on the stations 'Unleaded £1.23.9 Diesel £125.9 ' for an example.
Now, not even having the mildest obsessive nature , this thought was off on it's own making all sorts of scenarios up in my head where I was stood at a counter, having just purchased exactly three litres of diesel and was demanding change from my £3.78 payment. Then I woke up and got up properly and Googled UK pricing and found that it's not illegal to offer a price that doesn't come to a whole unit for something because if you use a decimal point you can round it up or down to the nearest whole unit, ie a penny.
http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2004/102/article/12/made
So, what other examples are there for goods that can be bought in a decimal point price per unit except you can't pay the actual price advertised?
I propose that we start a campaign for realistic attainable pricing. We shall call this campaign CRAP.
Now, not even having the mildest obsessive nature , this thought was off on it's own making all sorts of scenarios up in my head where I was stood at a counter, having just purchased exactly three litres of diesel and was demanding change from my £3.78 payment. Then I woke up and got up properly and Googled UK pricing and found that it's not illegal to offer a price that doesn't come to a whole unit for something because if you use a decimal point you can round it up or down to the nearest whole unit, ie a penny.
http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2004/102/article/12/made
So, what other examples are there for goods that can be bought in a decimal point price per unit except you can't pay the actual price advertised?
I propose that we start a campaign for realistic attainable pricing. We shall call this campaign CRAP.