this post was submitted on 24 Oct 2024
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A Boring Dystopia

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[–] schizo@forum.uncomfortable.business 13 points 2 months ago (3 children)

And just because lol, the 4 easy payments of $0.48 isn't the $1.90 price either.

Good job, afterpay?

[–] deegeese@sopuli.xyz 15 points 2 months ago

The 2¢ is for interest.

[–] bane_killgrind 5 points 2 months ago

They just had to round up instead of rounding down, bunch of crooks

[–] RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 months ago

This is... how that almost always works? People don't check how much it sums up to with those smaller payments and pretty much always end up paying more. Because it is so little per payment, the average person looking at this does not consider that.