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Pricing

Why a discount percentage can be true and meaningless at the same time, and how to read what a thing really costs.

A discount percentage is arithmetic performed on a number the seller chose. Both halves of that sentence matter.

The price on screen is one point on a line. Seeing the rest of the line changes what that point means.