Discount calculations

[Ralph Mowery]

I bought some shutters for the house last week. I ordered them from Lowes. Looking over the bill was interisting. I ordered 6 pairs. The bill shows all were listed at $ 51.78. One pair was listed seperately with a $ 2.64 discount as I used a Lowes card that gives a 5% discount. The other 5 pairs had a $ 2.58 discount. Maybe that one at $ 2.64 discount was to make up for the extra .009. I would have thought they would have just taken the 5 % off the total bill before tax.

[micky]

So the question is why discount individually? One reason I can think of, if you return one of them. Even if they are custom and can't be returned, it's easier to do things the same way for custom too.

I guess the extra 6c is like you say. Somehow the tax on each x 6 was less than the tax would have been on all 6, so they discount it 6 cents more to be fair. Or maybe it's the 5% discount x 6 that was 6c too low. My head hurts.

[Ralph Mowery]

I wasnot going to get my head hurting over a few cents. I just thought it odd the way it was done.

They were just standard off the shelf shutters. Nothing special at all.

[Oren]

No shit. You'd be hard pressed to find anything special at lowes or home depot, you dimwit.

[gfretwell]

That is just the way the Lowes point of sale system works. I get the

10% discount and it always shows up on each item. Why the number is different is strange tho unless they are just compensating for a rounding error or something.