T-Mobile's taxes & fees included pricing is the #1 reason I switched to them from AT&T.
Amazon has items for less than $10, but most items with a price between $0.01-$9.99 have to sell for $10.00 for their free shipping economics to work. That's notwithstanding the fee that your license to buy, i.e. Prime, cost you.
In San Francisco, if you sit down at a restaurant, take the written prices on the menu and multiply them by 1.5 to get what you'll actually be paying. I don't think it's that bad in Los Angeles.
Further, in San Francisco, if you sign up for $40/mo fiber Internet, it's really $63.50. Somehow Sonic managed to break past 1.5.
The takeaway is there is no hard and fast rule about transparency in pricing. It's all psychological.
> In San Francisco, if you sit down at a restaurant, take the written prices on the menu and multiply them by 1.5 to get what you'll actually be paying.
Is this anything other than taxes and gratuity (which, technically, you can give 0% for)? I'm trying to understand how even with 20% gratuity and SF's 8.5% tax, how you could get anywhere close to 1.5.
> Amazon has items for less than $10, but most items with a price between $0.01-$9.99 have to sell for $10.00 for their free shipping economics to work. That's notwithstanding the fee that your license to buy, i.e. Prime, cost you.
Amazon actually now will give you a longer ETA on cheap items to make it more affordable for them.
>> In San Francisco, if you sit down at a restaurant, take the written prices on the menu and multiply them by 1.5 to get what you'll actually be paying.
>Is this anything other than taxes and gratuity (which, technically, you can give 0% for)? I'm trying to understand how even with 20% gratuity and SF's 8.5% tax, how you could get anywhere close to 1.5.
It's mostly hyperbole. There's an additional 4-6% charge that's fairly common to see for "SF employer mandate" which is sort of BS in its own way, but that only gets you up to a bit over 1.3x.
Amazon has items for less than $10, but most items with a price between $0.01-$9.99 have to sell for $10.00 for their free shipping economics to work. That's notwithstanding the fee that your license to buy, i.e. Prime, cost you.
In San Francisco, if you sit down at a restaurant, take the written prices on the menu and multiply them by 1.5 to get what you'll actually be paying. I don't think it's that bad in Los Angeles.
Further, in San Francisco, if you sign up for $40/mo fiber Internet, it's really $63.50. Somehow Sonic managed to break past 1.5.
The takeaway is there is no hard and fast rule about transparency in pricing. It's all psychological.