The reason for these
god-awfully wierd prices like 19999 and 5.95 is because of
one man's deam of getting rich...He asked
vendors to set their prices slighty below a full
dollar so that they would get a
nickel change to buy his
newspaper with.
Newspapers have gone from
US$ 0.05 to
US$ 0.50 to 1.00, but the *.95 and *.99 prices remain regardless.
Now you have a possible excuse to build a time machine.