Sentence examples for strange pricing from inspiring English sources

During her adventures in "Through the Looking-Glass," Alice met a sheep who was a shopkeeper with a strange pricing structure for eggs: "Then two are cheaper than one?" Alice said in a surprised tone.

The strange pricing left consumers scratching their heads, and once Amazon introduced the same tracks without DRM in high-bitrate MP3 form, Apple had to match the price.

One-way plane tickets can have strange pricing depending on the airline, so use several ticket-finder websites to avoid getting charged four times as much as you should.

But strange price movements have begun to provoke questions.

When British regulators noticed strange price movements in a range of shares on the London Stock Exchange, they tracked them to a Canadian firm issuing thousands of computerized orders allegedly designed to mislead other investors.

The Apple-1 computer was built and sold by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, Apple's co-founders, in 1976 for $666.66 - the strange price was put into effect because Mr. Wozniak liked repetitive numbers.

That can lead to trades being executed at very strange prices if there is a failure in liquidity in the markets.

Given how strange this pricing scheme is, we asked Microsoft for clarification, and a spokesperson did confirm that this is indeed what's happening.

It's strange though – the price of oil is going down and the price of petrol is going up [in Russia].

"It's not that Starbucks' prices are strange, it's that our prices are too low in Italy.

Mr Carmichael told the same programme it would be a "very strange coincidence" for prices to have increased by 5p in the week leading up to the discount being introduced.