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The original was posted on /r/maliciouscompliance by /u/pacman199991 on 2024-01-19 04:56:42.

About 15 years back and while I was studying in college I had a requirement to take few hundred pages print for some annual submissions.

At the time, each page print was about 10c.

Around this time, one of the shops nearby had put an offer stating the price per page would be 5c if the number of pages was more than 99.

I took the required documents in a flash drive and gave it to the person using the computer for prints. It was at this point that I was told the offer price is applicable for only print from a single file. I.e, 99 pages or more would have to be from a single file. If the pages were split among multiple files (ex : 50pages in doc1 and another 50pages in doc2, etc) the offer is not applicable.

Most people may have given it up by now and had gone for regular price, but I was student back then and was always looking for any way to save money.

I then told I would come back for prints, got the flash disk back. Pulled out my laptop, combined all the files and copies into a single pdf file and give it back at the store for print. I also shared this bait and switch scheme the store had planned with my classmates, so most of them took advantage of the offer later on.

I may have saved around 30$ on that day. Not much, but I had some satisfaction with this MC. Lol.