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Comment by biot

  > You sell the dear currency in odd-numbered lots (to exploit
  > people's inability to do fourth grade math -- sad but broadly
  > true of the industry), for example, 7 dragons eggs for $10, 15
  > dragons eggs (one free dragon egg!) for $20, etc.
At the risk of embarassing myself through terrible fourth-grade math skills, can you explain how selling in odd-numbered lots is exploitive? Or do you just mean that at the $20 level it's not precisely one free?
parent biot 14 years ago

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