The Matter of Delivery Fee Resentment
A person redesigned their entire dinner order to avoid a delivery fee smaller than the cost of the redesign.
She opened the app at 8:17pm.
The total was 847 rupees. The delivery fee was 49 rupees. The total with delivery was 896 rupees.
She closed the app.
She reopened the app and looked at the delivery fee more carefully. It was 49 rupees. The item she had chosen was 420 rupees. The delivery fee was 11.6 percent of the main item's cost. This was a disproportionate fee.
She searched for a minimum order threshold that would waive the fee. The threshold was 600 rupees. She was 153 rupees away from free delivery.
She examined the menu.
Under the governing rule: money moved by delivery fee resentment may be mentally classified before the transaction has actually settled. The 49 rupees had already been classified as unnecessary. Adding 153 rupees of food to avoid 49 rupees of fee had not yet been classified as anything.
She added a side dish. 120 rupees. Total: 967 rupees. Still 33 rupees short of the threshold.
She added a drink. 60 rupees. Total: 1,027 rupees. Delivery fee waived.
She reviewed the order. She did not want the side dish. She did not want the drink. She placed the order.
Total paid: 1,027 rupees.
Total without adding items to avoid the fee: 896 rupees, including delivery.
Savings from the strategy: negative 131 rupees.
She ate the dinner. She ate the side dish partially. The drink was consumed the next morning, lukewarm. She did not remember ordering it until she found it in the bag.
She noted that she had not paid a delivery fee.
This was correct.