Penny Vote? Should it die?

krabby5

Although I think pennies are a pain in the ****, I can see both sides..

However, when i buy a receiver that is marked $1199, I think it's a silly marketing ploy that I have to wait until I check out to find out the REAL price, which includes taxes...why can't the price just say $1276.95 and be done with it?

PhantomOG

I'd rather see people stop writing checks for $10 at the grocery store first.

Demiurge

They still do that even with Debit cards?

brettw22

If you're asking me Demi, the answer is yes. End form of payment doesn't at all affect the price mandated on the shelf.

unc2701

brettw22 wrote:

Even if the solution is to round the tax rate, companies are going to have to alter their pricing structure to provide an end result in increments of $.05, mandating them to alter all barcode files in their systems.

Ehhh... you can batch process damn near anything. I'm not saying it would be easy, but I am saying that you're not going to have someone going through 300,000 files.


oh and phantom- I'm with you. I got stuck behind someone paying for a pack of gum with a check the other day.

brettw22

You can systematically wide alter the tax rate as every barcode file points to the same tzx file........but the only time that pricing is altered en masse within a department is if they mandate a certain percentage off sale for the department. That in and of itself won't bring the item price in line with what would be required for a rounded amount as pricing within departments isn't all the same.

Demiurge

brettw22 wrote:

If you're asking me Demi, the answer is yes. End form of payment doesn't at all affect the price mandated on the shelf.

I meant the people who still write $10 checks even though we have debit cards and banks that don't charge for using them. Sorry, should have quoted PhantomOG.

krabby5

PhantomOG wrote:

I'd rather see people stop writing checks for $10 at the grocery store first.

I must be in the hood, because no one accepts checks anymore..I can't believe you can still use checks....too easy to commit fraud..

all you have to do is take a check from a customer, copy down the ABA number and account number...order checks from the internet with that info, sans the name..in place of original name, put some foreign name as the check holder...."deposit" $1000 into that account, while at the same time withdrawing $500....you can sign the check as "deposit to the account of...."

you now have $500 and the original customer is stuck..

I should know...it happened to me years ago..

bobman1235

Demiurge wrote:

I meant the people who still write $10 checks even though we have debit cards and banks that don't charge for using them. Sorry, should have quoted PhantomOG.

Ugh, yes. I see people do it all the time. The elderly I can understand, kind of, they're just set in their ways. But when I see a younger woman doing it, I just want to stab. It's so ridiculous, I don't understand why the supermarkets don't just make a policy that either charges someone for using checks or bans them altogether. I actually confronted a woman about it once when I was ina particularly foul mood and she was taking way too long. "It's ok, ma'am, we can all wait for you to balance your checkbook." Selfish morons.

F1nut

I don't know guys, I've seen people write a check faster than others using a card. Maybe practice some patience in your lives.

PhantomOG

F1nut wrote:

I don't know guys, I've seen people write a check faster than others using a card. Maybe practice some patience in your lives.

well if it was even close to a majority were writing fast I wouldn't complain. However 99.99999% of check writers I've had the pleasure of being behind take a day and a half to write the check and then another day or two to log the check before getting out of the way.

With almost all major banks having websites that instantly post debit purchases online, I just don't understand the desire to carry a check book over a debit card. The liability is the same or worse for a checkbook, and if you are truly worried, you should be using a credit card only.

bobman1235

Patience goes against everything I stand for....

cubdog

Without pennies I'd be broke.

cubdog

Fireman32

without pennies i would not have anything to chuck at people that cut me off. penny bounces off a windshield nicely.

Demiurge

Fireman32 wrote:

without pennies i would not have anything to chuck at people that cut me off. penny bounces off a windshield nicely.

They do one hell of a job to a paint job on a car too. :mad: