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So im in greggs baker on saturday morning and i ordered a cheese and bacon melt as you do because theyre delicious. The price of it was £1.06.

1 pound a six fucking pence....why bother adding the fucking six pence, just make it ten pence. Now when i get my change back im gunna have pennies. Nobody likes pennies at all. Everything should be in multiples of 10.
Its the same when bars offer deals like 99p a vodka mixer or whatever. Just make it a quid! I dont want to wake up in the mornin with lots of coppers in my pocket.

Ok so some people like to put them all in a jar and save them up but seriously it takes you fucking forever just to save up anything worth actually exchanging.

Pennies should be extinct.
 
I think pricing stuff at 99p is just a psychological trick that they play on you. If for example you see an advert while you're driving or on the bus etc and it says £7.99, you'll probably remember it as about £7 rather than £8. My sister and I get tricked by it all the time. :wacky:
I think there have been studies on it but I couldn't say for sure.

But either way, and especially for that £1.06 melt, it's just fucking annoying more than anything. My pennies just end up lying around my room making it look untidy. :hmph: It already is kinda messy but whatever. :mokken:

Also, I've never tried those melts. :hmmm: I need to get down to Greggs during my break tomorrow. :grin:
 
Yeh thats what ive heard aswell, its to make things sound cheaper but its still a penny ¬_¬

They are awesome :wacky: Remember the 6 pence tho. Not worth breaking another pound for :hmph:
 
Hahaha, I well know how you feel :lew: I have a mountain of pennies in my drawer that I've collected over the two terms at uni :wacky: The greggs thing seems well shit though, £1:06... what is the point lol? I notice it in ASDA all the time, like if there's a deal on something they'll lower the price to £1.49 instead of £1.50 or 89p instead of 90p. I've just got the point now I buy everything with my debit card to avoid the change D:
 
There's actually a .... movement, I guess you could call it... in the US to remove all pennies from circulation. The argument is basically what you're saying, that they're more of an irritant than anything, and they don't really get spent any more, only given as change then dropped into the couch, or the driver's seat, or the change jar at home. And on top of that, the cost of minting pennies is actually prohibitive. As in it costs more than a penny's worth of minerals to make a penny.

So what they're saying to do is to round everything to the nearest nickel. Anything that ends in a 1 or 2 (or 6 and 7) would round down, and then 3 and 4 (or 8 and 9) would round up. I'd go for the idea if it was ever presented for a vote of some kind.
 
They cost more to make than theyre worth? Thats definitely counter productive :lew:
Id be all up for getting rid of them altogether aswell, theyre nothing more than a nuisance.
 
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i hate that awkward moment of should i wait for my 1p change

I know why they do it, with all that psycological bollocks, but fuck off, we're not actually that stupid to be caught out by it for more than a few seconds. Its like them adverts that say summat is under X amount, fuck you,. it's 799.99 under 800 quid my arse

Mongs
 
Yeah like your sat there thinking. Oh god thank goodness than new tv is only £599.99 because i dont have the extra penny to spend :hmph:
 
though, i must admit, when youre skint, they come in useful - raiding the penny ar in emergencies has happened on more than one occassion <_<
 
Big Casino said:
Ok so some people like to put them all in a jar and save them up but seriously it takes you fucking forever just to save up anything worth actually exchanging.
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I do this with all my change. Especially when I worked at Timmy Ho's and got tips a lot more frequently cause people cba with change, within a couple months I had enough to roll and change over for about 40 bucks. It's a handy way to save.
 
I heard some banks refuse even to cash in pennies.
Someone I knew saved up 40 pounds and was rejected for it. :gonk:
 
:hmmm:

Okay but I don't live in England or America, so my country isn't retarded. :wacky: Even stores will take a roll of coins here.
 
Er.... our banks and stores will take pennies too. Pretty sure it's illegal not to take them over here. That whole "legal tender for all debts public and private" thing.
 
Yeah. My friend flew off into the deep end for them not accepting. Told them then and there to cancel their account 'cause they were joining a different bank that would.
 
Either form, I would think, considering most banks nowadays have one of those Coinstar-type machines anyway. So if you take in a bag full of pennies, you just dump it in the machine and get a neat and tidy little piece of paper to take to the teller for deposit. And for rolls, they can just count the number of rolls you have. Pretty simple.
 
Oh, I've never even heard of such a machine before. Sounds quite nifty.

Either pennies shouldn't be abolished.. I didn't understand how Brits have 2p though, that was a bit excessive.. as well as 20p..
 
I'm starting to see those change-converter machines more in more in supermarkets now, but I've yet to see them in any banks.

Personally, I don't much like carrying loose change, I always find it in my bad, and there's never a good way to carry it. At the moment, I have a pile of 1ps and 2ps, and a pile of 5ps. I'm going to keep this going to the end of the year, and see if the change really does add up :lew:
 
Stevie Nicks said:
I'm starting to see those change-converter machines more in more in supermarkets now, but I've yet to see them in any banks.
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I've seen them in grocery stores too. I thought they were an awesome idea if you have a bucket of coins you've been saving, but I learned that the machines actually take a profit off your dumping which is kind of ridiculous.

I do think the pennies are going to be abolished though (at least in Canada, as I saw on the news), because at this point in time they are economically inefficient.

It costs the government over a cent to create each penny. So in a way, the penny is no longer pulling its own weight.

I say off with his head.
 
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