It is going up. But why?
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Tesla has airways had volitility. It goes up when musk overhype it, it goes down when tesla underdelivers. I had some stock and got off that roller coaster when the truck was unveiled. I stopped believing it was above board at all.
Sick nazi reference in the numbers though.
I missed it at a glance., thank you for brightening my morning!
$14.88 is an obnoxiously common price for temporary box display items at home depot. Gloves, kneeling pads, drill bit kits. Always gets an eyebrow from me
I still dont get what its supposed to mean. I guess its AD HH. I dont think I have to explain the 88, but what does the 14 stands for?
14 words
Thanks for The clarification.
My assumption of good faith for it happening once is going for as close to $15 as possible but trying to avoid $14.99 because that is too obvious and just went to the next double number down.
But repeatedly? There is zero chance that nobody has pointed it out.
Stores will often use the cents portion of the price as an identifier for where it is on the markdown schedule. $xx.99 - that's usually full price, the highest it will ever be. Others would be for things like "first markdown" or "don't markdown" or "last markdown."
There's definitely some cents coding for clearance there. A $100 item will be identified as being removed from inventory when it goes to 1st clearance at 50.06, 2nd clearance at 25.03 or 25.02. There's a whole game to find those items at the next stage, scrap or return to vendor, when it get pulled form the shelf and set to 0.01. But the order isn't always perfect and you can get lucky if you find it and don't get caught
Reddit comments say 88 is a "special buy" item. In my experience, that means freestanding box with a giant price tag
Is the sales tax in your area 7.5% by any chance?
$16 x (100/107.5)= $14.88
I don't see any gloves priced at 14.88 on their website at a quick check. I wonder if the store is trying to set a price that tallies to an even dollar amount and doesn't know the connotation. I only recently learned about those numbers being associated so I would like to believe a benign explanation. Maybe you could ask to talk to a store manager next time you see it an make sure they know to avoid that price point.
Found one item real quick, Husky Foam Kneeling pad. Same price of $14.88 for NYC, LA, Nebraska, and Delaware.
https://www.homedepot.com/p/Husky-Soft-Foam-Kneeling-Pad-90346/315303737
That's not my tax rate, although it's a good guess. It occurs across a number of store sin my area, although all in the same state. My theoretical benign explanation is its an inventory code for short term items around holidays. I'll probably be there later today and see what I can find