Tuesday, November 13, 2007

No more 1 cent. Good or Bad?

I heard from the radio this morning that the gov had decided not to use 1 cent anymore starting next year (not sure about the exact date). They are going to implement this rounding mechanism.

How does the rounding works? 1-2 cents, don't need to pay, 3 to 7 cents will be round up to 5, which means we will need to pay 5 cents for that, and 8-9 cents will be rounded up to 10 cents. That means if the thing you're going to buy costs you RM 1.02, you will only need to pay RM 1, if it's RM 1.03, you'll need to pay RM 1.05 and if it's RM 1.08 you'll need to pay RM 1.10.

Is is good to us or bad to us? no more RM 0.99 lor.. hehe..To me it's quite ok lar, i hate to keep 1 cent anyway. It's so troublesome and i hate it when my bills ends with 8 or 9 cents, i have to go korek out all my one cent to pay. You probably will say you can give them 10 cents and don't asked for the change lar, yes i can but i don't like to do that. hehe..

So what about you? Are you ok with this? I think guys normally dun keep 1 cent one right?

2 comments:

kljs said...

actually, they should have scrapped the 1 cent years earlier..... because it's not as if anyone is using them at all...... like when I buy at a fast food outlet like KFC. Most of the people just put the 1cent into the donation box at the counter.... or just tell the cashier to keep the small 1 cent changes...

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