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There must be a better way to write payment notes (with existing direct debiting authorization!) on invoices that this:
Translation:
“Please always use the prepared transfer form for payment (see top left)!
Total amount will be directly debited from your account.”
Bild, the big German tabloid, claims that they – or rather the winner of a system playing ticket they had given away – have hit the 43 million lotto jackpot. Well, the whole frenzy has to end some time. 
With some fantasy, you can see a stylized shopping cart in the alignment of the drawn numbers (9, 10, 24, 28, 39, 42, without additional number 33 – and without guarantee) (see image) – well, that one won’t be enough for the lucky winner for sure…
Now they’re already announcing ad leaflets with small ads…:
Translation: “Please regard our current Adler leaflet which will be in your mailbox next Saturday.”
(From yesterday’s “Pfaffenhofener Anzeiger”.)
The German food discounter Rewe is currently running “the sharpest loyalty point campaign” with the knife manufacturer Zwilling – for each 5€ you pay at Rewe, you get one discount ticket, and once you got 30, you get a discount on certain Zwilling products. So a rather simple discount ticket system (limited to one manufacturer), but the variability of the tickets’ values seems strange to me:
| Product | Price with discount | Regular price | Value of one ticket |
|---|---|---|---|
| knife-block | 9,99 € | 49,50 € | 131,7 ct |
| meat knife | 14,99 € | 32,50 € | 58,37 ct |
| lard knife | 9,99 € | 19,50 € | 31,7 ct |
| bread knife | 17,99 € | 39,50 € | 71,7 ct |
| cooking knife | 21,99 € | 48,50 € | 88,37 ct |
| universal knife | 11,99 € | 24,50 € | 41,7 ct |
| peeling & vegetable knife | 9,99 € | 29,50 € | 65,03 ct |
| santoku knife | 19,99 € | 45,50 € | 85,03 ct |
| steak knife set | 29,99 € | 74,50 € | 148,37 ct |
| knife scharpener | 9,99 € | 15,95 € | 19,87 ct |
| multipurpose scissors | 9,99 € | 19,95 € | 33,2 ct |
| scissors set | 13,99 € | 30,50 € | 55,03 ct |
That’s an average of 69,17 cents per discount point – but with a range of 19,87 to 148,37 cents!
I don’t want to be so vicious and call the recommended prices without discount phantasy values, there must be some sensible basis to them – but the discounts do seem pretty arbitrary…
And that on a Dult (=fair) Sunday (with shops open from 1 pm). The few bold vendors that had come anyway had to struggle with fierce squalls and later continous rain, which made not only the one with the wooden hut (2nd photo) leave early.
When I took these two photos, it was relatively dry and not that windy…
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