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- From: wiml@milton.u.washington.edu (William Lewis)
- Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.misc
- Subject: Re: Even Money
- Message-ID: <1992Jul22.032821.12881@u.washington.edu>
- Date: 22 Jul 92 03:28:21 GMT
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- In article <14gf82INNmf2@agate.berkeley.edu> goldfarb@ocf.berkeley.edu (David Goldfarb) writes:
- > To make up for the hardbacks, many paperbacks now have prices
- >such as $4.99. Yuck.
-
- It doesn't really matter, does it, since the sales tax always pushes
- it up to some funny combination anyway. I wish stores would either
- include sales tax in the marked price or mark things so they come out
- an even dollar (or fraction). Oh well.
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