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Why do gasoline prices include 9/10ths of a cent?

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warpboost

posted on Jul, 22 2008 @ 10:42 PM
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Why do gasoline prices have 9/10ths of a cent at the end of the price?? Just seems like a gimmick to get another cent without people really paying attention. I'm going to guess it was started back when gas prices were just cents a gallon and has never gone away.


hawaiigurl

posted on Jul, 22 2008 @ 11:27 PM
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I would guess the same thing too. It's kinda like buying an article of clothes that says $10.99 instead of saying $11.00. For me, I don't really pay attention to the cents, only to the dollars, unless I am comparing prices of items by dollars and cents.


Cyprex

posted on Jul, 24 2008 @ 06:03 PM
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You are correct. Think back to last time you said "I paid $4.50 a gallon today!" Did you even think of the 9/10 then
You just about paid $4.51.



 
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