At the store
See what a bottle deposit you type adds
A deposit is a second price on the same bottles.
- Calculated from what you enter
- About 2 minutes
- Easy
The short version
- For someone who already has the numbers in hand.
- Add a per-bottle deposit you type, times a bottle count, to a price.
- It is not a decision about what you should buy, sign, or qualify for.
The moment
The tag has a price. You also type a deposit per bottle. The page adds deposit times bottle count to the price.
After this, you can see what a bottle deposit you type adds.
Your guess first
These numbers are an illustration, not a store price. Price 4.00; Deposit per bottle 0.10; Bottles 6.
The turn
The first illustration comes out to $4.60. Deposit times the bottle count, added to the price. A second illustration comes out to $8.10. Deposit times the bottle count, added to the price.
Why the number hides
Deposits are often a small line, so the price you remember is short of what you hand over.
Now run your own numbers
Do this next
- Type the price before deposits.
- Type the deposit for one bottle.
- Type how many bottles.
- Read the total.
- Skip this if there is no deposit.
Who this will not work for
- A price this page did not ask you to type.
- Tax, unless you folded it into a number.
- Advice about what you should buy.
A pitfall
If there is no deposit, do not invent one. Use the price alone.
How this was calculated
Total equals the price plus the deposit times the number of bottles.
This is arithmetic on the numbers you type. It doesn't check store prices.