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[-] Ephera@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 day ago

To be honest, I'm always a bit amazed that this doesn't happen more often. Yesterday, I had to pay 50.93€ and handed the cashier 51.05€, because I'd rather have a 10ct coin and the cashier typically needs smaller coins more often.

In this case, it was obvious that I didn't hand them the 5ct by accident, but that's the sort of mind games I'll play and so far, the cashiers were always a step ahead of me...

[-] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 3 points 16 hours ago

Cash transactions now get rounded to the nearest 5 cents here in Estonia so you won't even get the 2 cents anymore. 5 is the minimum now

Think it'll reduce usage of the tiny coins, but no idea if they're also slowly removing them from circulation or not. In your scenario you would've received just 5 cents

Doesn't invalidate the extra 5 cents to get 10 cents back, just nice to get back even fewer small coins I'd say. Sometimes you pay an extra cent or 2, sometimes you lose a cent or 2. Never more than 2 anyway

[-] Ephera@lemmy.ml 3 points 15 hours ago

Yeah, our government occasionally discusses that idea again, but unfortunately nothing has been put into law yet. I would certainly prefer not having to carry around extra copper, just because companies want their .99 prices.

[-] IntriguedIceberg@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Shouldn't you have received 12cts? In order to get 10cts back you ought to give 51.03€. Or am I just not mathing today?

[-] Ephera@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

No, no, you're mathing correct. I did receive 12ct back. But 12cts is a 2ct coin + a 10ct coin. If I would have given 51.00€, it would have been a 2ct coin + a 5ct coin back. I didn't mention the 2ct coin, because it's always involved.

And I didn't have 3cts myself, otherwise I would have made it 51.03€, yeah.

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