Why do they have weird price Tags such as 9.99,99.95, 1999.95 and so on in Canada (And probably in US as well) ?
Agreed that after you add GST & PST , the price is never a round number.
But still an innocent question from a newcomer to Canada.Please enlighten...

maine suna hai ki canada mein bahut tax dena padta hai...is it true??

I am still wondering about answer to the question in my previous mail copied below.Any veteran Desi who could reply?

"Price Tags
Why do they have weird price Tags such as 9.99,99.95, 1999.95 and so on in Canada (And probably in US as well) ?
Agreed that after you add GST & PST , the price is never a round number.
But still an innocent question from a newcomer to Canada.Please enlighten..."

I remember in India we have prices of bata like 19.95.

The logic is the figure looks smaller. If they want to sell something for 8 dollars they will put a figure as 7.99, so your (the customers) first impression is that the price is $7 and so it is cheap.

You can say that you can't fool customer like this. But tell it is really happening. When I was new to this country, my wife use to speak that hey - this is just for two dollars and I was always adding one dollar on top of that!

Just marketing logic!

If you are new to this country - you will see more and more such "legal" but "scrapy" marketing tricks then what you were seeing in India!

Be careful!

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A Proud Indian Canadian