TightwadsThere's saving money, and there's being tight: saving money at the expense of other people, or simply for the miserly hell of it.
Tell us about measures that go beyond simple belt tightening into the realms of Mr Scrooge.
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chthonic, Thu 23 Oct 2008, 13:58)
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I'm with Scarpe on this one...The bus company must make a ruddy mint out of all those "lost" 10p pieces.
This is a maths/economics thing that has been floating around in a much more disguised version for years and it was highlighted in the Superman III film when Richard Prior asks "Where do all of the fractions of one Cent go" (or words to that effect) then writes some software to "Harvest" them.
You'll notice the same thing with fuel prices (and many other examples). They state something like 104.26p per litre. The .26p gets rounded up as we don't have a half-penny any more and the retailer gets the difference (0.24p). 0.24p is a tiny amount and nobody would worry about missing it but when one million people fill up with 20 litres of fuel that's 20 * 0.24 (4.8p) * 1,000,000 which is £480,000 (yes, four hundred and eighty thousand pounds).
They must think that we're effing stupid and it sounds like they've duped you into carrying out their little scheme. I would guess that the local authority has set/capped bus fares and this is the way that the bus company make their "little extra" (by installing the sealed boxes).
ALWAYS take the change. And smash a window on the way out...
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