Such media coverage connotes the expectation of a quick run-up back to the original price levels.
Renovations and maintenance can add millions of dollars to the original price tag.
In an example from Rotherham, it was discovered that the NHS had been paying four times the original price for pizza bases.
The Chinese stall representative responds by shaking her head angrily and pointing to the original price on the calculator in her left hand.
On homes with price reductions, the reduced price is even more likely to have a 9 as the last non-zero digit than the original price was.
Some sellers even try to sell the good imitations very close to the original price of the product and only the informed consumer is able to spot the difference.
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On homes with reductions, the original price had 9 as the last non-zero digit 52% of the time, while the reduced price had 9 as the last non-zero digit 54% of the time.
Eventually companies will find a breaking point where they are simply taking too much away from games and charging too much on top of the original price so that it drives consumers away.
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He stressed that the company has taken steps to make products more affordable, and highlighted its broad line of iPod media players that come in different models, many of them lower than the original price at launch years ago.
Tying decisions to a proposed number, even when it is random or misguided, is known by psychologists as anchoring and helps explain why a "50% off" sale can seem so compelling even when the original price was vastly inflated.
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Among all non-foreclosure homes for sale on Trulia, in early January, 33.6% of homes were priced lower than their original listing price. (For homes originally listed more than six months ago, we compared the current price to the price six months ago, not the original price.) One year ago, in early January 2012, 36.7% of homes for sale were marked down from their original listing price.
Believe it or not, if you add up all the costs of operating a car for five years, the total expense will equal, if not surpass, the original purchase price of the car.
And if that is all there was to it then the Danish could rightly argue that the royalty payments are excessive (or that the original transfer price was too low, much the same thing in reality) and thus try to claim more tax.
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If the piece sells above the original acquisition price, Art Auction Guarantee takes 15% of the profit and the owner keeps the rest.
The adjusted-basis typically is the original purchase price, or value when acquired via inheritance or gift, increased by capital improvements.
In funding his first year of GoPro, he sold imported belts from Indonesia for sometimes 50 times the original purchase price.
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Copies changed hands for up to 20 times the original sale price.
The maximum repayment is 50% of the original purchase price.
Suppose someone buys a new limited-edition car that happens to appreciate, rather than depreciate like most cars, so that it can be sold a year later for more than the original sticker price.
Another study showed that hidden fees can increase the original ticket price for a typical traveler with a single bag 10% to 82%, or 21% to 153% for a traveler with two bags.
This claimant public customer alleged that the respondent brokerage firm asserted that after the customer sold positions in his account that he could buy back those sold positions within sixty days at the original sale price.
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Eventually, the stock market collapsed, his income declined in value instead of increasing, and he was forced to sell his house (a short sale) for less than the original selling price and much less than he owed.
While Williams claimed it was providing an 18% premium over the original bidding price, Energy Transfer returned the punch, highlighting the advantages of its MLP (master limited partnership) structure. (Read Energy Transfer Buys Southern Union: The Beauty Of Nat Gas MLPs).
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For one thing, he notes that the company did not originally subsidize the phone, although he notes that the company quickly fixed that issue by cutting the price of the original iPhone shortly after release, and then offering iPhone 3G at a subsidized price a year after the first version launched.
In particular, he credited Sol Price, the founder of Price Club, the original warehouse club store, with many ideas that Walton used for his own business.
Bellini believes Microsoft could cut the price of the tablet, or potentially lower the price of Windows to original equipment manufacturers such as Dell ( DELL), HP ( HPQ) and others to drive adoption.
Pratibha Singh, a lawyer for the Indian generic drug manufacturer Cipla, which makes a version of Glivec for less than a tenth of the original drug's selling price, said the court ruled that a patent could only be given to a new drug, and not to those which are only slightly different from the original.
It followed in the tracks of Shandong Huoyun Electromobile, a firm that makes golf buggies, which launched its own version last year and announced plans to sell the car in Europe for less than half the price of the original.
Oil ticked down slightly after the news broke, but it started to creep back up again toward its original price from the market opening.
Much less of a surprise: a new, cheaper, 3G iPhone able to blaze through the high-speed networks in many of those countries at half the price of the original iPhone.
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