Costco Pricing Codes???

[kadee79]

As superstore pricing mysteries go, it's not the equivalent of "The Da Vinci Code," but there's still something deliciously elusive about the so-called "Costco Code" that has set the tongues of shopping mavens wagging for the past several months.
At least the plot line is direct enough: If you can interpret what the various sequences of digits and asterisks mean on Costco Wholesale Club price signs, you're on your way to scoring serious bargains.

Here's how it works, according to Costco shoppers spreading the word online: If a price at Costco ends in .99, you're paying full price. But if it ends in, say, a .97, it represents a deal with a special price decided by the manager. And if you happen to see an asterisk in the upper right corner of the sign, then the item is on its way out of the store-and probably at the lowest price you're going to see.

"That asterisk, that's the holy grail," says Kyle James, who runs the shopping blog Rather-Be-Shopping.com (http://www.rather-be-shopping.com/). He has shopped at Costco for 20 years now, and the Redding, California resident has studied the matter of the Costco Code well. By his count, he and his wife have saved at least $300 using the Costco Code over the last seven months.

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I've gotten some pretty good end of season deals at Costco...for non-food items.  My biggest one was our outdoor roll up sun shades.  They were originally priced at $70 (and factory priced at $249 as well as at several retail outlets) but as the season was winding down I got some for $60 ea.!  That may not sound like a lot of $$ off, but every little bit helps! 

ETA...I'm not sure what is going on but my quote doesn't want to go into the box!  I've tried 3 times now so I'm going to leave it as is!

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I saw that some years ago when some millionaire was on 20/20 (or one of those kinds of shows) and revealed that he bought his wife's engagement ring there. It ended in a "97". 

[NoNamePerson]

I saw something along these lines about Sam's pricing several years ago. Almost identical to article on Sam's