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Re:When negotiating a price, never bid with a round number (... by gumby on Friday May 06, 2022 @06:38AM (#31283592)
Sometimes shops use the low order bits to encode metadata, e.g. “this is the 20% off price” or “this is ineligible for the sale (discount) going on now”.

Thus $15.20 vs $15.40

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