Wait a minute. Warten Sie eine Minute!

[Pekka]

OK, there's a product at the store that costs 9.99. Because they'll just round it up, I end up losing a good cent of mine.

SO why don't they just put the real price I really have to pay? If I have 1 cent I pay extra, can I store it in some account so when they build up, maybe I can buy something with it? Why not?

Does the store get to keep that one cent? Do they punch it in as 10 euros paid, 9.99 it cost so .. what happens to that one cent? It's a damn racket, that's what it is.

On another news, I did what I usually do, that is use my ID to get free danish and a cup of coffee. You see, our school building always have these.. gatherings of all kinds, business community, what not. People do their events there sometimes, because the place suits it well and they got nice equipment etc. So there's always catering. This happens at least once a week if not more. Sometimes there's some good stuff.

I always go and get mine. Well it's not really mine but so what. Anyway, today the catering person said I have to have a badge because if I don't have a badge, she can't serve me because it's for the registered guests. So. I flipped my job ID, and because it's obviously a staff ID, you know. What is she going to do? She knows it's not the official badge for the event, but why would staff need one anyway. I did it with authority and with great dissatisfaction for her attitude that she was giving me, that I not only took the danish and the cup of coffee, I walked away to my office to eat them and about an hour later I came to get another cup of coffee. Why? I can't be bothered to pay for it. It's not like I stole it. They gave it to me. I do this every week. I like it.

[BeBMan]

Communism

[Imran Siddiqui]

Do stores in Finland work differently than they do over here? If it is $9.99 and not subject to tax (otherwise, it'd be something like $10.60 or whatever), then you get 1 penny back if you give them a tenner.

[Main_Brain]

If I purchase Gasoline for 20.01 € I only pay 20€.

And everyone has to get Free Coffee at the OFFICE!!! HOW ELSE ARE WE SUPPOSSED TO WORK?? Tired People make Mistakes.

[Pekka]

Do stores in Finland work differently than they do over here? If it is $9.99 and not subject to tax (otherwise, it'd be something like $10.60 or whatever), then you get 1 penny back if you give them a tenner.

Err... we're talking about Finland. They tax the tax.

Main_Brain, that's right!!! IF I'm getting coffee from catering, I'll drink it.

[Koyaanisqatsi]

Re: Wait a minute. Warten Sie eine Minute!

Originally posted by Pekka
If I have 1 cent I pay extra, can I store it in some account so when they build up, maybe I can buy something with it? Why not?

There's some credit card that actually does that for you. I think it's a Discover card of some sort. (?)

[MRT144]

Re: Re: Wait a minute. Warten Sie eine Minute!

Originally posted by Koyaanisqatsi


There's some credit card that actually does that for you. I think it's a Discover card of some sort. (?)

bank of america, washington mutual... etc etc on debit purchases.

[Pekka]

I might ask from Kikkeli if I can have something like that with my credit card. It's the local equivalent of bank of America.

[LordShiva]

Originally posted by Koyaanisqatsi


There's some credit card that actually does that for you. I think it's a Discover card of some sort. (?)

His point is that the store doesn't give him that 1 cent back.

[LordShiva]

Originally posted by Pekka
I might ask from Kikkeli if I can have something like that with my credit card. It's the local equivalent of bank of America.

Why? It's stupid. If you're charging the purchase to your card, how does it matter if it's a $9.99 charge, or a $10 charge with $0.01 given back to you in another account?

[Pekka]

Yeah, and also since they registed that I paid X amount of money, what THEN happens to that 1 or 2 cents. Does the store get to keep it or not? If it doens't get to keep it, where does it go? Does it just vanish? And if so, how much money 'vanishes' every year?

[Ecthy]

Only Finland and one more Euro country don't have 1 and 2 cent coins.

[LordShiva]

Originally posted by Ecthy
Only Finland and one more Euro country don't have 1 and 2 cent coins.

If Pekka had mentioned that in the OP, this thread would have made much more sense.

[Ecthy]

Did you just mention "Pekka" and "sense" in one sentence AND try to get across a point?

[LordShiva]

My posts seldom try to get across a point.