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zuul

(14,627 posts) Thu Nov 3, 2022, 11:21 AM Nov 2022

8 dollars seems extremely random

Karen Schwartz (@pithywidow)

8 dollars seems extremely random, like maybe name your next kid that instead

7:55 AM · Nov 3, 2022

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8 dollars seems extremely random (Original Post) zuul Nov 2022 OP

Eight dollars is an opening bid for something whose cash value is not yet known. Pete Ross Junior Nov 2022 #1

The price already came down. zuul Nov 2022 #2

8 has meaning to white supremacist WA-03 Democrat Nov 2022 #3

8 IMO was chosen because it's the most they could push it... brush Nov 2022 #4

Pete Ross Junior

(404 posts)

1. Eight dollars is an opening bid for something whose cash value is not yet known.

Reply to zuul (Original post)

Thu Nov 3, 2022, 11:30 AM

Nov 2022

If there are no takers, the price will come down.

zuul

(14,627 posts)

2. The price already came down.

Reply to Pete Ross Junior (Reply #1)

Thu Nov 3, 2022, 11:32 AM

Nov 2022

He was floating $20 before he caved and suggested $8.

WA-03 Democrat

(3,050 posts)

3. 8 has meaning to white supremacist

Reply to zuul (Original post)

Thu Nov 3, 2022, 11:57 AM

Nov 2022

"H" is the eight letter of the alphabet

"H" as in Hitler

So if you see 88 that would be code for "Heil Hitler"

brush

(53,787 posts)

4. 8 IMO was chosen because it's the most they could push it...

Reply to zuul (Original post)

Thu Nov 3, 2022, 01:01 PM

Nov 2022

without it being 10 bucks which seem like a lot when there was no charge before. 9 reads about the same as 10 psychologically so they went with 8 because it's noticeably below 10 to the consumer...voila.

Not a random choice.

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