Friday, March 31, 2006

Interesting...

I bought a magazine few days ago and it comes with a free booklet which features Padini Holdings Bhd.'s apparels, shoes, bags, n accessories. After flipping through few pages of the little booklet, I found that there's a pattern in the prices of their products.

Here's a part of the booklet:


The blue/white bag and the green bag - RM79 each; the orange bag - RM69; the hat - RM39; the shoe - RM59; the blouse with strips - RM109.

Can you notice that there's a pattern in their price tags? Most of prices end with the number 9. What I've shown here is only part of a page. There's more than 20 pages of it. And I can say that 95% of the products featured in the booklet have price tags that end with the number 9. I think they really liked the number "9".

3 comments:

katabana said...

last time they also got teach mah...

RM119 is WAY~~~~~ cheaper than RM123... at least it looks and sound way cheaper.. :)

some simple yet effective metal trick that enterpreneur played for ages... :)

Baby Princess said...

I agree with Wei Ken...

79 is cheaper than 80...
Even 79.90 is cheaper than 80.

But I think some shops are now using 79.88 or 78.88 instead of 79.

Hahaha!

Damien|ダミエン said...

Melb got an even funny way to sell their items. They create 3 branch with 3 different name, and sell items with different price, so no matter which place u buy or feel cheap the money still goes to the same organization. While some shop will raise their price and offer discount all the time, u will see the sales tag for like months.