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Comment author: Kindly 28 October 2012 04:11:09AM 2 points [-]

Is there a market, then, for products on which the price tag cannot be removed, thereby allowing you to demonstrate how expensive it is? Books are an example: often the price is listed on the cover (of course, unfortunately this mainly happens for paperback books, which are cheap).

I suppose you could also go over the price tag with an insufficiently opaque permanent marker.

Comment author: [deleted] 28 July 2013 12:52:34PM 0 points [-]

Is there a market, then, for products on which the price tag cannot be removed, thereby allowing you to demonstrate how expensive it is? Books are an example: often the price is listed on the cover (of course, unfortunately this mainly happens for paperback books, which are cheap).

Where I am, it is customary for book stores to put a sticker onto the price printed on the cover when you ask them to wrap the book in wrapping paper.