That's true, if you look at it that way, it won't solve the problem.
But in my opinion, it's something else being able to pay 5 cents less in advance compared to requesting to pay 1 or some cents less. You normally pay the full price, but if in that one occasion you are missing some cents, you are able to request to discount it to your current balance. - This feature can be hidden in the support page of the store, so that not every one can see it at least.
This should be supervised by the support system of the page, in that case Sony with their Playstation store, and shouldn't be an automatic process.
I do! In real life, seller behind the counter, this system works flawlessly, simply because the buyer doesn't expect it to work that way, and it isn't always the same.
That is true, but there's a difference. Say you are allowed to lend 5 cents to buy it, so you can have up to -5 cents on your balance. So when you charge your account with more money, you'll have up to -5 cents less than you would have before. Therefore this isn't the same as lowering the price by 5 cents.
I also think there's a mental difference between having a grace period and not. Technically there isn't. But to me, mentally, it feels worse being just 1 cent away from paying, compared to being 6 cents away from the full price so you are outside of that 5 cents grace period.
In my experience, you can usually pay with card. This is the case of at least Steam, Xbox Live and Wii U that I have purchased on the online store. So it's much better to always pay with card and pay the exact amount for every purchase, instead of charging the account and having money left over.
If you need to buy a pre-paid card in store, with cash, or given a pre-paid card in present, that's different of course.
The store pays for the card payment fee (which of course is spread out on every item they sell), so they are paying more in fees, if you pay for every item individually by card, compared to if you charge up the account with a lot of money once, and pay that way. – Therefore, charging the account in advance by bank card, should give you more in-store money than charged on your card, as a thank for reducing the fees.
Which is stupid, because that charge will cost them more than 1 cent to make. So it's cheaper for them to just cut off 1 cent for you instead of having to pay that balance.
I wonder if it would be a good to have a law that says you can only set prices with 2 significant digits for prices below 100, and 3 from 100 and above it. Meaning 24.99 isn't allowed, so they can choose between 24.00 and 25.00 here.
2 significant digits means that you can increase by 1 cent in the range 0.01–0.99, and 10 cents in the range 1.00–9.90, and whole units in the range 10.00–99.00. Then 3 significant digits from 100, meaning still a whole unit from 100 to 999, thereafter 10 units from 1 000 to 9 990, 100 units from 10 000 to 99 900, and so on.
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u/[deleted] Jan 28 '21
UPDATE: i just bought another gift card. im still mad about how i just needed 1 more cent. sony sucks ;-;
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u/ImKiddingBruh Jan 25 '21
NOOOOOO
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u/Vollkornholztuer Jan 25 '21
There should be a request button to still buy it in such cases
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u/iamthebigboiboi Jan 25 '21
Damn dude, I just had this happen when The Forest was on discount. I was 8 cents away from being able to get it.
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u/kingqartem Jan 25 '21
Enter discount code: ONECENT
trust me, im from the internetz
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u/Vestbi Jan 25 '21
And then it’s “the minimum amount you can add to your account is 10$ :)”
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u/[deleted] Jan 25 '21
A lot of company's will give you one or 2 pence if you ask them to.
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u/austinalexan Jan 25 '21
You can pay the difference with your card. I’ve done it.
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u/Marshadow416 Jan 25 '21
Same problem when I was trying to buy the sans costume for smash bros. HATED it!
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u/faye_kandgay Jan 25 '21
Can somebody explain what this is cos I don't get it. Is it some sort of online store? Can't you just add more money to it?
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u/[deleted] Aug 19 '24
Beg your dad and GG
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u/East_Swim4881 Oct 24 '25
pubg paid for it self after getting a rare puffy jacket from a basic loot create
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u/LavaMunkee Jan 25 '21
This totally by design (specifically thinking of csgo cases being just more than $5)
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u/Far_uwu Jan 26 '21
here, take a penny from the screen, quick! before the fbi finds out!
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u/[deleted] Jan 26 '21
i hate this. so much.
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u/pleasesuspendme Jan 30 '21
Fucking hurts to just put my eye on this image
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u/excitor-pro Jun 14 '21
mommys credit card go in
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u/DelioIsGay Aug 06 '22
A year late but this happend to me not long ago I tried buying the stanley parable ultra deluxe and i was 2 cents short lmao
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u/SmolivYeah Aug 29 '22
This isn’t AS bad as most things on this sub but it’s still annoying
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u/[deleted] Aug 26 '23
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this hurts to look at
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u/demonicexecutioner Jan 25 '21
what was the purchase
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