twesterm on 07 October 2009
When looking at price, $299.99 and $300 are as close as you can get but in the minds of the consumer, $299.99 isn't $300 so it's just another price bracket. It's still in that $200 range even if it is pretty much $300.
For the difference between $289.99 and $299.99, it's still in that upper $200 bracket and just doesn't matter. Nobody will see $289.99 and think that's just almost $300 and buy it, they will just see the same thing as #299.99.
So good try, but not good idea. I think people that it's there job to figure stuff out like that would have thought of that idea long ago if it actually worked. 
