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Garp
09-12-2006, 13:24
http://verizonmath.blogspot.com/

Sometimes you have to wonder about some companys and their sales team. Why is it so hard to understand that 0.002 cents is different from 0.002 dollars?

(.002 (U.S. cents / kb)) times 35 893 kb = 0.71786 U.S. dollars

(.002 (U.S. dollars / kb)) times 35 893 kb = 71.78600 U.S. dollars

What kind of people struggle with that sort of concept?
Burble
09-12-2006, 13:27
I can't comprehend how someone can't understand the difference! Since we're talking about the same quantity of each, Verizon seem to be under the impression that 1 dollar = 1 cent. Muppets.
Belmit
09-12-2006, 13:29
I'll be interested to see the outcome of this since it quite clearly isn't a little slip-up, all their reps are saying it!
Daz
09-12-2006, 14:38
:shocked:
Messiah Khan
09-12-2006, 16:55
Ok... have they got monkies working for them or something? That like saying 1gram is the same as 1kilogram.:huh:
Desmo
09-12-2006, 17:00
It's quite unbelievable :/
semi-pro waster
09-12-2006, 17:43
Surely as an employee you just have to think if you'd prefer to be paid in dollars or cents, you have to be especially dumb if after prompting you still don't twig.
Vaultingslinky
10-12-2006, 22:59
It has been something I have noticed before, Companies have been very sloppy in their notation i.e. pricing something as 0.02p when infact they mean £0.02.

Its all very well people saying they are not mathematicians, but I was taught money notation, and decimals from a very early age.
Richard Slater
11-12-2006, 23:15
It is surprisingly common amongst the general public as well, for example trying to explain to a student the size differences between a CD and a DVD, he couldn't get over that more information could be stored in the same space.
Garp
12-12-2006, 00:13
It is surprisingly common amongst the general public as well, for example trying to explain to a student the size differences between a CD and a DVD, he couldn't get over that more information could be stored in the same space.

Yah.. wh...

I'd love to see them get their head around simple concepts like comparitive density then; like why a hot air baloon goes up and a sledghammer goes down.